• Flying SquidM
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    420 days ago

    Right, but what I am saying is they could have easily just talked to some actual social workers to find out what would have actually worked with someone like Barclay instead of just deciding it. It’s kind of a shitty way to treat mental illness as a subject.

    • @aeronmelon
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      220 days ago

      Just like they could have easily talked to a real fucking Native American.

      But I don’t think this one was an unforced error. That was all most well-intended Americans (yeah, I really do have to qualify it that way) knew at the time. It was progressive then, but insulting today.

      Otherwise, you can chalk it up as yet another Berman Conflict™.

      • Flying SquidM
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        320 days ago

        In that case, they were fooled by a con man.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamake_Highwater

        So I don’t think that’s applicable here. They thought they had consulted someone properly in that case but they were wrong through no fault of their own. With Troi, all they had to do is find one of the millions of social workers in the U.S. or just the thousands in Los Angeles and talked to them.