I also hate the very popular notion that veterans needs to be handled with kid gloves by the healthcare, unemployment and social services systems.
"They fought for [insert-country]!" Is used to justify them being treated humanely by systems that are otherwise revoltingly underfunded (as is the case of the psychiatric system) or (as is the case of the unemployment and disability bureaucracies) who are deliberately designed to make an example of sick people by treating them like lying criminals and grinding them to a pink paste just for the crime of being sick and unable to work.
Person A deserves a shoulder to cry on, a stable income and the sympathy of the public because he voluntarily choose to go and kill poor villagers in a non-white BadCountry, while being completely aware of the risks to his mental and physical health. But person B deserves to suffer and to be told that she is a lazy moocher and a burden to society because she's the survivor of an abusive relationship. And don't even get me started on what we do to refugees with PTSD.
The soldiers themselves could have used the special status they enjoy in our fascist culture to fight for the rights of everyone with PTSD. But no veteran ever went on TV to shame the ruling elite for not caring for people with PTSD. No, like the little chuds they are, they buy into the whole idea of them being very special boys and only talk about how veterans with PTSD.
I also hate the very popular notion that veterans needs to be handled with kid gloves by the healthcare, unemployment and social services systems.
"They fought for [insert-country]!" Is used to justify them being treated humanely by systems that are otherwise revoltingly underfunded (as is the case of the psychiatric system) or (as is the case of the unemployment and disability bureaucracies) who are deliberately designed to make an example of sick people by treating them like lying criminals and grinding them to a pink paste just for the crime of being sick and unable to work.
Person A deserves a shoulder to cry on, a stable income and the sympathy of the public because he voluntarily choose to go and kill poor villagers in a non-white BadCountry, while being completely aware of the risks to his mental and physical health. But person B deserves to suffer and to be told that she is a lazy moocher and a burden to society because she's the survivor of an abusive relationship. And don't even get me started on what we do to refugees with PTSD.
The soldiers themselves could have used the special status they enjoy in our fascist culture to fight for the rights of everyone with PTSD. But no veteran ever went on TV to shame the ruling elite for not caring for people with PTSD. No, like the little chuds they are, they buy into the whole idea of them being very special boys and only talk about how veterans with PTSD.