>
> "Madmen" and "insane" have frequently been used to describe the
> terrorists. This is a misuse of impairment. The men here were not
> insane, they were not mentally disabled yet they are being
constructed
> that way. Here is why IMO. Those society identifies as "abnormal"
> inspire fears of moral collapse. Intellectual impairment has often
> wrongly been linked to criminal deviance. The easy way out is to
use
> polarized conceptions of normal and abnormal, sane and insane,
healthy
> and sick in order to demean and make the objects of scorn subhuman.
> Then it is OK to institutionalize them or kill them. Why I object
to
> such use of this language is because it fosters the idea that
disabled
> people are a social problem, here, even a menace to society. The
> hegemony of "normality" is a bourgeoise construct and we should
> recognize it as such.
>
> Marta
================= Marta,
Thank you for your clarity. Apologies...
Ian