Thank you for this fantastic article - it really succinctly put into words some of my thoughts about what had been happening as well as opened my eyes to some stuff going on behind the scenes I was not aware of.
It’s nice to see a quality discussion about sanewashing. It’s something I didn’t really grow to recognize and appreciate as a problem until the defund the police and BLM movements gained the popular scene recently, because it happened on a much faster scale than many other sanewashing events I’ve seen happen, which helped to demonstrate to me how influential this can be.
Uhh, that article (while not completly wrong) is apparently written by a smug self-decribed “neoliberal” (of a idealized kind, so I guess the article is a bit of a self description).
Also I am not sure if “sanewashing” is a term I would use, as it both implies that what it goes against is “insane” (it usually isn’t, just the person did not fully understand it) and also perpetuates using mental illness as some sort of slur. But I grant that the dynamic it describes is real… it just needs a better term.
Thank you for this fantastic article - it really succinctly put into words some of my thoughts about what had been happening as well as opened my eyes to some stuff going on behind the scenes I was not aware of.
It’s nice to see a quality discussion about sanewashing. It’s something I didn’t really grow to recognize and appreciate as a problem until the defund the police and BLM movements gained the popular scene recently, because it happened on a much faster scale than many other sanewashing events I’ve seen happen, which helped to demonstrate to me how influential this can be.
Uhh, that article (while not completly wrong) is apparently written by a smug self-decribed “neoliberal” (of a idealized kind, so I guess the article is a bit of a self description).
Also I am not sure if “sanewashing” is a term I would use, as it both implies that what it goes against is “insane” (it usually isn’t, just the person did not fully understand it) and also perpetuates using mental illness as some sort of slur. But I grant that the dynamic it describes is real… it just needs a better term.