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Notice: No ... I am not Brian Fox, and I don't know anything about him, nor do I want to know anything about him. He engaged in a social media discussion but it was cultural appropriation in that he encroaches on a psychology profession position while presenting himself as retired paramedic. He misconstrued my point & patronizeded me on social media so this is how I'm responding.
This is a sociology presentation (work in progress) about a man's insistence on patronizing me on a psychologytoday.com magazine article on Facebook. (Screen captures included here in conformance with fair use in this criticism.)
I have titled this as "cultural appropriation" which takes a bit of explaining. (I actually just re-used another page that I had put together.)
What is the crucial point in this that he does not admit is that the evaluation he speaks of may result in violating the person's U.S. Constitutional right to liberty since the person may be forced to comply with a paramedic's authority in accordance with state mental health hold statutes. The statute is often abused, though, since it provides for a right to attorney representation but that is usually denied by means of intimidation & coercion. There is implied threat of non-acceptance (abandonment) if the distressed person does not comply with requests and instead insists on legal representation.
I was misconstrued because I mentioned the financial cost to me but what he ignored was the fact that I was coerced (threatened) by paramedics to surrender to their constraint. I said I was "grieving" in my comment but that wasn't (entirely) true. I went a number of days without eating. I told the paramedics that I was fasting but one was a health-nut and said he fasted but he did it right. I didn't know what I was doing. I said I was doing it for religious reasons & I was asked what my religion was so I replied that I was Christian and they laughed. They were not going to give up their scrutiny ("evaluation"?) of me until I gave in & went with them, that became obvious. They make it very clear that my resistance is ruining everyone's nice day. My right to liberty is infringed upon and, to add insult to injury, I get hit with a bill. I challenged the ambulance bill years ago (and lost), but I retrieved the emergency room discharge paperwork and have it available in pdf.
I will add to this page & text but I wanted to get the site online. I consider this man's posit as objectifying & dehumanizing.
Note: The image popup behavior of the CSS template I used is a bit strange & may not work well on mobile devices but I'm not utilizing Javascript code.
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My discharge paperwork for the coerced ambulance trip to the emergency room on November 08, 2013.
My vitals were taken, they did some labwork and discharged me. open the pdf in full screen viewer
A few of my other sites:
- Please visit the advocacy webpage I've published for Elijah McClain: justice4elijah.org
- realnextdoor.org - an advocacy webpage regarding local laws that protect renters
- freequakers.net - My website presenting some of my family genealogy work
- atadcrazy.org/ - My website for advocacy in human rights and for the disabled out of the mental & behavioral health community.
- seankirkwood.net/ - Sociology presentation about a man's cultural appropriation of military uniform combined with his misinterpretation of application of U.S. Constitutional rights
Because it is a distortion of being more fully human, sooner or later being less human leads the oppressed to struggle against those who made them so. In order for this struggle to have meaning, the oppressed must not, in seeking to regain their humanity (which is a way to create it), become in turn oppressors of the oppressors, but rather restorers of the humanity of both.
~ Paulo Freire
The biggest danger to our rights today is not from government acting against the will of the majority
but from government which has become the mere instrument of this majority...
Wrong will be done as much by an all-powerful people as by an all-powerful prince.
~ James Madison
"Only a lively appreciation of dissent's vital function at all levels of society can preserve it as a corrective to wishful thinking, self-inflation, and unperceived rigidity"
The Wrong Way Home : Uncovering the patterns of cult behavior in American society | by Arthur J. Deikman, M.D
ISBN 10: 0807029157 ISBN 13: 9780807029152
Photograph of my old department crewmembers & I displaying our
Battle Efficiency Award onboard the now decommissioned USS Wabash AOR-5
site part of:
