How were people with normal intelligence in 1930's were unnice to the mentally challenged??

Answer 1

Riducle - - - foul words - - - broken bones. Define Normal and Define Mentally Challenged. Seruiously. Try it. Try it blindfolded. In the early 1930's the comics and movies abounded with 'idiots' and 'fools' whose antics elicited laughter. See the 'lazy black w/ the pop eyes' respond to a fake ghost. See the slow witted bald guy get slapped & poked by his work partner.

Define Mentally Challenged. In Nazi Germany the Educated Middle Class clammoured for Euthanasia for the Mentally Challenged. Here is a bit of trivia for you. For centuries people of marginal intelligence have made a wage by being circus/sideshow freaks. An entire sub culture who make a wage by exagerating their worse traits. With a purposely bad hair cut and two wads of chewed chewing gum or morticians wax a PINHEAD can be created. The Nazis used these 'tricks' to sell Euthanasia. They paraded 'freaks' in front of cameras and told 'people with normal intelligence' that these were what all mentally challenged were like.

Some of these films found an audience in America by the late 1930's...

Common cuss words in the 30s // all of which might get censored by Yamsters // Pinhead, Moron, Idiot, Imbecil, Dork, Dumbell, all of which can be called unnice.....

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Answer 2

Until very recently mentally challenged people were considered freaks. Having a handicapped child was considered shameful and they were often shunned and kept out of the public eye. If they were really challenged or were especially difficult or violent they were very quickly institutionalized. These institutions were not there to help, but to control and hid these people. At times they were basically prisons, and not nice ones at that. If the person was still capable of functioning in society they face a huge stigma and were looked down on and mistreated most of the time. This mistreatment varied of course, but could be anything from name calling to outright physical abuse.

I think in some ways we've go too far the other way now. We insist that people deserve a place in society. But I've seen some people that were simply incapable of functioning on their own. There's no good reason in my mind why they can't be looked after in an institution. A nice institution, where they will be genuinely cared for and helped. When these people need constant care and supervision anyway, it's foolish to think it's somehow better to do that independently.

Answer 3

I don't know where to even begin answering this question. What exactly do you mean? Are you after the state of mental health facilities during that time, or just the perjorative terms that were used, or how the mentally challenged were affected by the Great Depression? Specifics man!

Answer 4

They were ignorant.
A lot of people were superstitious and scorned the handicapped because they felt that what happened to them was a curse from God.
Then there was the eugenics movement, which tried to breed perfect people, like Hitler tried to do in Germany.