Fox News host says the mentally ill don't deserve rights

[Nevilledog]

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https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-news-host-says-mentally-ill-dont-deserve-rights

JESSE WATTERS (CO-HOST): I found out that in 1950, we had a half a million people institutionalized. Do you know how many do we have now? 37,000. What the hell happened? It looks like in the civil rights movement, when we granted all these rights to people who didn't have rights at the time -- Blacks, women, workers, the environment got more rights, people with disabilities -- they said, "Hey, let's bring the mentally ill along too and let's give them all the rights."

There's a phrase for that and it's called the term "dying with one's rights on" which means you can be mentally ill, but you could be dying on the street. You can have all your rights but hey, you're going to be dead and naked and afraid and disease-ridden because the country is not trying to help you.

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The pendulum swung way too far on the left and now we have to get it to a place where the compassionate response is to institutionalize people.

[regnaD kciN]

1. So, when do they "compassionately"...

…cart off Hannity and Carlson?

[JohnSJ]

5. The whole network

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. That aint nothing, wait till you hear what he and they will do with Gays, Trans, Latinos, Muslims.

[TheRealNorth]

6. Well, I believe the Deplorables consider at least the first 2 to be a mental illness.

Hell, some say being Liberal is a mental illness.

[catbyte]

3. Hey Jesse, is being a pathological liar a mental illness?

Asking for a friend...

[louis-t]

4. Republican governors closed all the 'institutions' in the '80s.

Thanks to Reagan and "compassionate conservatism". Asshole.

[Aristus]

14. I was going to say: He doesn't remember Reagan eliminating the federal subsidy for state-run

mental hospitals?

And then, addle-brained that he was, commenting a year later on the sudden seemingly inexplicable rise in the homeless population in the U.S.: "Well, the homeless are that way, I guess, because they choose to be."

[Generic Brad]

7. They don't think they deserve rights?

Ok then.

[Gaugamela]

8. The SCOTUS ruled in 1975 that states could not institutionalize

the mentally ill without due process in O’Connor v. Donaldson. I doubt the court would overturn that decision, given their right wing libertarian bent. The answer is to provide services, but of course Republicans would rather just lock people up and forget about it.

[GoCubsGo]

9. Jesse Waters needs to be committed to a 1950s style institution.

Along with every other Propaganda Channel host and sidekick/giggling couch tumor. Meanwhile, he needs to STFU.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

10. I guess that means we can start discriminating against Republicans.

KY.........

[IA8IT]

11. Except gun rights they still get to have guns.

[Emile]

12. With that logic all Fox News hosts shouldn't have any rights.

[harumph]

16. or viewers. Lock them up!

[niyad]

13. Apart from the disgusting hatred and cruelty displayed by that pathetic

and repulsive wadte of resources. . may I remind the scum that it was saint ronnie who emptied the mental institutions.

[brewens]

15. I'd say be careful what you ask fpr there Skippy! LOL n/t

[Initech]

17. Nah, I'd say shithead Fox News hosts who seek to divide us don't deserve rights.

I'd even go so far as to declare Fox News an enemy of the US. They don't represent our best interests.

[Beausoleil]

18. Typical right-wing response to an issue

Always wrong!

Instead of educating himself, this bozo wants to own libs so bad that he got it ass backwards.

Sure looks like an idiot, as if that matters.