Olympic Log Day 7 Part II: "Deranged" fan DOESN'T attack Biden, NOT a threat- Mental Health and safety

Everyone has heard about the man who breached Olympic security to get "within 12 steps of" [THE] Joe Biden. Am I the only person who is saying- who the hell cares? Not only was this person NOT carrying any weapons, not even a blunt object, but all reports say he wasn't even considered a threat!

So what's the deal? Oh right, he has "mental health issues". I'm appalled at all the news stories who have literally called this man "deranged" and "crazed". I have two criticisms I will expand upon:

I care less about the political correctness of the adjectives "deranged" and "crazy" and care more about the way those terms are used to make the story sensational. Think, for a moment, that the person who got through security was a young White woman (let us imagine her attractive to boot). She would have, no doubt, been casted as a fan that just wanted to meet Biden and everybody would be talking about what a compliment it is to be respected and looked up-to like that. Now, being in the body that this "deranged" man is in (not knowing myself what he looks like but can take a clue)- he was cast as crazed and infatuated.

Now the meat of my point. This only seems like a big deal because of the particular combination of having 1) fooled security and 2) had legit mental health issues. In this society, we prosecute people's bodies. What I mean by this is we expect to know what "crazy" people look like in the same way we know what homeless and poor people look like. And when we misread these cues we act out (i.e. panhandlers without tattered clothing- people will often scoff and roll their eyes at the poor who seem to "dress well"). People generally look like their socio-economic status.

So when we come across a certified crazy we expect him to look like a certified crazy. For this person to get through several rounds of security and not be stopped is a crack in our faith to identify those we (normal people) have to "protect" ourselves from. Because crazy people are always understood as dangreous- and this is just another example of fear tactics of the media to perpetuate that mental health issues are always safety and violence issues. RECOMMEND this Post on Progressive Bloggers CLICK HERE!