Periodically in the past there would be investigative journalists (and the like) who would find out about the types of disability designations that people might receive gov't assistance for, either state or federal. The reporters would get all proud & gleeful because they're convinced that they've uncovered fraud since there are people who receive disability who are not physically disabled. The designation is "mental impairment" or also as it's often colloquially phrased, and in a disparaging way, as "mentally ill". It isn't too difficult to figure out that the "chemical imbalance" ideology for the cause of "mental illness" is myth and the real cause is psychological or emotional trauma the person experienced in their past, and there would be physical abuse they endured as well. The issue with the latter (physical) part is that can often be repudiated somehow (the person is exaggerating or is being too sensitive, they're just weak, etc.) because as the cultural stigma and stereotype has it they'd be like a serial killer or whatever if it was really that bad. (Now we use the terms "emotionally distressed" and "trauma informed", also "lived experience", etc.).
I understood that regular people who work and pay taxes can take issue with helping to support people on that kind of disability ... it seems like they should be able to do something to help support themselves, and many do actually. (The idea that they can still work some simple job for less than minimum wage has been experimented with too but is not acceptable since the work offered is really just equivalent to what some other "normal" person might do who gets paid at regular rate.) That is revealing though since what happens out in the world is a person that has suffered atrocious abuse as a child, or was raped, etc. can be taken advantage of and although it can be eventually discovered that they are, the fact that they were exploited (due to low self-esteem, lack of confidence, etc.) the period of time that they were was still their reality.
The crucial point here is that there's the U.S. Constitution Fourteenth Amd which is meant to guarantee equal protection of law but there's a socioeconomic class of people that the popular consensus has it that the idea doesn't apply to them ... they are "inferior" in some way. If I worked with you, for example, and you started going on about immigration issues and I piped up with the point that the majority of the undocumented immigrants are below average height in their physical stature and were trying to escape a brutal environment where they faced not only low quality life, but high mortality too, then I could expect that you'd laugh in my face saying that they were really all rich drug dealers who are ruining your country with their wonderful lives full of sex and fun. I'd either have to agree with you or quit the job. Once I quit I'd be talked about like I'm the worst kind of human being, lazy, etc. ... If you think that's some hyperbole of mine you don't understand ... all of that really happened ... no, not with you (I'm not delusional) but with another "dad who's saving America", get it?
Oh ... so there is truth behind the "systematic racism" or "critical race theory" but the problem with it is that in culture it's coupled with a idea that a white person who is not successful has only themselves to blame when there are many factors to be considered. The other side of the coin though is that it is true that people of color were exploited by whites throughout history. The idea that incredibly wealthy people all worked extremely hard to make all of their money is myth too. The example that I think of is the event where an underwater salvage company found a shipwreck containing silver coins (c.2007 see: "The Black Swan Project" on Wikipedia) and the Spanish gov't sued the company claiming it was their property originally; they won and they celebrated. How the silver coins came to be in the first place was completely dismissed. I met a physician who was a descendant of "Bolthouse Farms" in California and this man inherited a whole bunch of money so he bought a lot of land in the Colorado mountains (I found that out later after looking him up) but what prompted me was what he said to me when I visited his office for a physical. He said that he liked to treat people in a holistic fashion, physical, mental, and spiritual and I was like wth? "Spiritual?" ... His family touts that they're all Christian ... I read articles where members of the family were explaining that they're all about that. Whatever... I mentioned to him that I needed a "Request for Reasonable Accommodation" from him because a HUD civil rights division employee suggested that I get one to give to my landlord to compel them to keep my payment account accurate so I could use their online payment system. He paraphrased that back to me like it was the stupidist thing he ever heard. People will (usually) immediately sympathize (defend) whoever is in more powerful position and in this case the doctor figured that I must be ungrateful for my gov't assistance, the landlords obviously had their reasons, etc. He's white and saw me as being the same but I'm a Caucasion and there's a difference in ethnicity. I found out the doctor was divorced too, so there you have it; he tried to take his aggravation out on me. (His medical assistant also asked me to remove my shoes to measure my height and I was like "?" ... "No", I said "I'm not comfortable doing that for only that reason". I realized later that was how the body part harvesters got all those people to remove their shoes before killing them all in some Central American country but I can't seem to find the documentary.
Periodically in the past there would be investigative journalists (and the like) who would find out about the types of disability designations that people might receive gov't assistance for, either state or federal. The reporters would get all proud & gleeful because they're convinced that they've uncovered fraud since there are people who receive disability who are not physically disabled. The designation is "mental impairment" or also as it's often colloquially phrased, and in a disparaging way, as "mentally ill". It isn't too difficult to figure out that the "chemical imbalance" ideology for the cause of "mental illness" is myth and the real cause is psychological or emotional trauma the person experienced in their past, and there would be physical abuse they endured as well. The issue with the latter (physical) part is that can often be repudiated somehow (the person is exaggerating or is being too sensitive, they're just weak, etc.) because as the cultural stigma and stereotype has it they'd be like a serial killer or whatever if it was really that bad. (Now we use the terms "emotionally distressed" and "trauma informed", also "lived experience", etc.).
I understood that regular people who work and pay taxes can take issue with helping to support people on that kind of disability ... it seems like they should be able to do something to help support themselves, and many do actually. (The idea that they can still work some simple job for less than minimum wage has been experimented with too but is not acceptable since the work offered is really just equivalent to what some other "normal" person might do who gets paid at regular rate.) That is revealing though since what happens out in the world is a person that has suffered atrocious abuse as a child, or was raped, etc. can be taken advantage of and although it can be eventually discovered that they are, the fact that they were exploited (due to low self-esteem, lack of confidence, etc.) the period of time that they were was still their reality.
The crucial point here is that there's the U.S. Constitution Fourteenth Amd which is meant to guarantee equal protection of law but there's a socioeconomic class of people that the popular consensus has it that the idea doesn't apply to them ... they are "inferior" in some way. If I worked with you, for example, and you started going on about immigration issues and I piped up with the point that the majority of the undocumented immigrants are below average height in their physical stature and were trying to escape a brutal environment where they faced not only low quality life, but high mortality too, then I could expect that you'd laugh in my face saying that they were really all rich drug dealers who are ruining your country with their wonderful lives full of sex and fun. I'd either have to agree with you or quit the job. Once I quit I'd be talked about like I'm the worst kind of human being, lazy, etc. ... If you think that's some hyperbole of mine you don't understand ... all of that really happened ... no, not with you (I'm not delusional) but with another "dad who's saving America", get it?
Oh ... so there is truth behind the "systematic racism" or "critical race theory" but the problem with it is that in culture it's coupled with a idea that a white person who is not successful has only themselves to blame when there are many factors to be considered. The other side of the coin though is that it is true that people of color were exploited by whites throughout history. The idea that incredibly wealthy people all worked extremely hard to make all of their money is myth too. The example that I think of is the event where an underwater salvage company found a shipwreck containing silver coins (c.2007 see: "The Black Swan Project" on Wikipedia) and the Spanish gov't sued the company claiming it was their property originally; they won and they celebrated. How the silver coins came to be in the first place was completely dismissed. I met a physician who was a descendant of "Bolthouse Farms" in California and this man inherited a whole bunch of money so he bought a lot of land in the Colorado mountains (I found that out later after looking him up) but what prompted me was what he said to me when I visited his office for a physical. He said that he liked to treat people in a holistic fashion, physical, mental, and spiritual and I was like wth? "Spiritual?" ... His family touts that they're all Christian ... I read articles where members of the family were explaining that they're all about that. Whatever... I mentioned to him that I needed a "Request for Reasonable Accommodation" from him because a HUD civil rights division employee suggested that I get one to give to my landlord to compel them to keep my payment account accurate so I could use their online payment system. He paraphrased that back to me like it was the stupidist thing he ever heard. People will (usually) immediately sympathize (defend) whoever is in more powerful position and in this case the doctor figured that I must be ungrateful for my gov't assistance, the landlords obviously had their reasons, etc. He's white and saw me as being the same but I'm a Caucasion and there's a difference in ethnicity. I found out the doctor was divorced too, so there you have it; he tried to take his aggravation out on me. (His medical assistant also asked me to remove my shoes to measure my height and I was like "?" ... "No", I said "I'm not comfortable doing that for only that reason". I realized later that was how the body part harvesters got all those people to remove their shoes before killing them all in some Central American country but I can't seem to find the documentary.