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Haldol
This is an advertisement for the psychotropic drug Haldol. It was featured in a psychiatric journal in the sixties, which will bring a couple of things to mind. The “belligerent” man depicted in the picture is clearly a black man, in an aggressive, assaultive stance.
This advertisement was run right around the civil rights era, which does something to explain the unexplained aggressive, assaultive, and belligerent behavior. What do you do when someone just wont stay in their place? You confine and medicate them against their will. This ad is a lot to swallow.
I don’t know whether such a thing actually did take place at the time, but the insinuation is enough for me. Everything about this advertisement screams social control. The words are made to instill fear within the reader, to cause a sort of panic about what could be, and will be possible, if certain measures and precautions are not taken.
The ad is also careful to add: Usually leaves patients relatively alert and responsive. Relative to what- a vegetable? What happens not usually? Who cares, this guy just wont stay in his place.
Seriously though, this is maybe the most racist ad I’ve ever seen, even for the time. The way it panders to a deep-seated psychological fear about the unrest of a disenfranchised race is pretty low ball. It’s hard to think of something more offensive. And again, the implications of locking someone up and medicating them because they threaten your political and economic stability is just terrible. Really, really terrible.
Social Control Tool? Absolutely.
Posted in Assignment 5
Tagged control, deviant behavior, medicalization of deviance, Moral Panic, racism, society
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Broken Windows Theory
This article in the Washington Post, talks about the broken windows theory and depending on what race you are then it depends on how you view the theory. They did a couple of studies around this theory and what they found was very interesting. Depending on your race, you viewed certain situations differently. They took surveys, home videos, phone interviews to gather all of their information. Whats interesting about the whole thing is that they all had negative things to say about other races, but nothing about their own. The look at the faulty things on other people, and think that no-one from their race is capable of doing such graffiti on the wall, or throwing litter on the floor. If something such as this is not part of their everyday lives, then they are against it, but me, growing up in the south bronx, its a normal everyday thing for me. Of course its wrong, but no-one is the neighborhood seems to care. They actually stand back and let it happen. I see the difference when sometimes there is a home game at yankee stadium, and the white people (no offense to no-one) will not dare go pass the grand concourse, because everything seems different to them. Its an environment that they are not used too, so they are against it. Then again you hear so many bad things about the bronx, but its not always true, so i dont blame them for not wanting to stick around after the game.
-Armenis P.
Swastika Branding
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/nationnow/2011/08/new-mexico-hate-crime-guilty-pleas.html
Two men have been charged with branding an individual with a Swastika sign and now face up to 8 years in federal prison. Back in 2009, Paul Beebe and Jesse Sanford, decided it would be a good idea to go to New Mexico and assault a disabled man of Navajo decent. They then went ahead and used a hanger to brand the disabled man with a Swastika. At this point they have pleaded guilty and are rightfully on there way to jail.
I find this topic to be very disturbing and feel an example should be made of these guys. I have many family members and friends that are Holocaust survivors and I don’t take any Nazi activity lightly. Being of Jewish decent, and learning about the Holocaust has lead me to believe these men are monsters and branding is the least you have to worry about when there on the streets. The part that bothers me the most is that other Neo-Nazi’s and racist will look at these 2 guys as hero’s and it may be the catalyst to the next racially influenced attack. It makes me sick that there are still ignorant assholes like these guys in the world and I hope they get assaulted in jail. 
Racism in America
According to the article by CNN, America still tends to struggle with the issue of racism. Although in the past century several human rights and struggles for equality among classes and races have occurred, it still tends to be in the early developing ages when it comes to racism. White supremacists, still tend to invest their time on hate and plenty of propaganda on white (Aryan) power that dominates the majority of U.S. Unfortunately, as seen in this article, many lives (innocent) tend to be sacrificed for an expired belief (Nazism) that has left it dark spot on history 7 decades ago. I belief that stronger legislation on these hate crimes will lower the level of racism across U.S., but that seems a long way ahead.
