When a disproportionate amount of a certain subset of people have been treated for mental illness, instead of them trying to drag everyone else into their craziness, perhaps they should evaluate their beliefs.
Although it seems that liberals have deemed the term ‘crazy’ as being not really politically correct by today’s standards—they insist the term ‘mental disorder’ is more polite—perhaps the rest of us have wrongly let the liberal lunatics define the terms of engagement.
You see, it is those very same liberal lunatics (especially white, liberal lunatics) who have self-identified as having more crazy in them than the rest of the population.
In a Twitter thread posted earlier this year and editorialized upon more recently at Diogenes Middle Finger, Ph.D. student Zach Goldberg took the overall data from a self-reported poll by Pew Research in March and condensed it to nine useful charts that indicate that liberals—especially white liberals (who self-identify as ‘very liberal’) are “far more likely than all other ideological-racial subgroups to report being diagnosed with a mental health condition.”
While Mr. Goldberg states he “didn’t write this thread to mock white liberals or their apparently disproportionate rates of mental illness,” given all that we’ve seen over the last four years, it is hard not to draw a correlation between their liberal beliefs and their self-identified “mental illness.”
1/n Two interesting findings thus far from my analysis of Pew's March 2020 COVID-19 survey. First, white (and especially 'very') liberals are far more likely than all other ideological-racial subgroups to report being diagnosed with a mental health condition. pic.twitter.com/RynS9lk0jR
— Zach Goldberg (@ZachG932) April 11, 2020
2/n Somewhat surprisingly, this difference further grows when we add standard controls pic.twitter.com/2VM3DD2HJI
— Zach Goldberg (@ZachG932) April 11, 2020
3/n We next turn to mean responses to this battery, which asks about the frequency at which respondents experienced specific mental health issues over the previous 7 days pic.twitter.com/2zisVK5ItD
— Zach Goldberg (@ZachG932) April 11, 2020
4/n The differences are more modest here, but still significant pic.twitter.com/eGeyPEpONU
— Zach Goldberg (@ZachG932) April 11, 2020
5/n They are also robust to several potential confounds (e.g. job loss, pay-cuts, marital status) pic.twitter.com/1YE76bEbKc
— Zach Goldberg (@ZachG932) April 11, 2020
6/n However, entering the 'mental health diagnosis' variable into the model does (perhaps naturally) narrow the difference. pic.twitter.com/E22JIYwgRi
— Zach Goldberg (@ZachG932) April 11, 2020
7/n In other words, at least some of the differences in the covid-mental health battery between white liberals and others are accounted for by the former's higher likelihood of being diagnosed with a mental health condition.
— Zach Goldberg (@ZachG932) April 11, 2020
8/n It's possible that the disparities in self-reported diagnosis are simply or partly a function of white liberals being more likely to seek mental health evaluations. I don't have the data to answer this question. But given that they also tend to score higher on neuroticism..
— Zach Goldberg (@ZachG932) April 11, 2020
9/n (and, not to mention, score lower on life satisfaction/happiness), I think at least some of this difference is genuine.
— Zach Goldberg (@ZachG932) April 11, 2020
10/n I didn't write this thread to mock white liberals or their apparently disproportionate rates of mental illness (and you shouldn't either). Rather, this is a question that's underexplored and which may shed light on attitudinal differences towards various social policies.
— Zach Goldberg (@ZachG932) April 11, 2020
11/n Overall, and with one exception (white moderates), those in 18-29 age group are more likely to report being diagnosed with a mental health condition. The differences among white liberals, though, are striking: almost half of white liberals in this cohort report a diagnosis. pic.twitter.com/eKFG1GZF8t
— Zach Goldberg (@ZachG932) April 11, 2020
13/n Big 5 personality profiles for white libs who report/don't report receiving a mental health condition diagnosis. pic.twitter.com/cA7YqPLAqX
— Zach Goldberg (@ZachG932) April 11, 2020
Mr. Goldberg makes a very important here:
14/n One of the things that concern me about liberal social engineering and norm-promotion efforts is that they ostensibly cater to those who are emotionally fragile or those with specific personality profiles. Those with different personality profiles or have higher emotional..
— Zach Goldberg (@ZachG932) April 11, 2020
15/n stability are just expected to shut up and deal with it.
— Zach Goldberg (@ZachG932) April 11, 2020
To make matters worse, it appears that white, liberal women are even crazier than their white, liberal male counterparts:
16/n Some of you asked for it, so here is the last chart broken down by gender. Biggest gap within age x ideological groups is between white liberal men (33.6%) and women (56.3%) in the 18-29 category pic.twitter.com/brIKO11KSx
— Zach Goldberg (@ZachG932) April 13, 2020
