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This episode of Lexual Does The 80s is about mental health, physical health, and the soul of America. How did 1980s tribalism, fears, and media lead to our present reality? What advances in technology and new attitudes exacerbated tribalism and hatred? One more episode left until we do the 1990s!
0:00- Vietnam Veterans Enter The 1980s
3:38- Intro
4:27- Medical Advancements + Breakthroughs
5:20- Healthcare Access + HIV
7:46- Mono, Toxic Shock Syndrome, Lyme
9:03- Lorenzo's Oil + Personal Medical Research
9:56- Nancy Cruzan, Elizabeth Bouvier, + The Right To Die Movement
13:08- Euthanasia, The Hemlock Society, Jack Kevorkian
15:09- Deaf Rights at Galludet University, Blindness Activism, + Disability Rights
18:26- Changes in Understanding Autism
20:27- Reagan's Personal Brushes with Untreated Mental Illness + Deinstitutionalization
22:18- Deinstitutionalization + Homelessness
26:13- Joyce Brown, AKA Billie Boggs and the "Right" To Be Homeless
28:02- Tompkins Square Park Riot + Police Brutality
30:00- The Unhoused and Mass Incarceration
30:49- Mental Illness + Gun Violence (Mark David Chapman)
31:40- Tyrone Mitchell, Patrick Purdy, San Ysidro Massacre
36:48- Edmond Oklahoma + "Going Postal"
37:36- Joseph T Wesbecker + Prozac
39:17- KKK + Vietnamese Fishermen in Texas
42:25- Operation Red Dog, Don Black, + Dominica
43:33- The Evolution and Fracturing of KKK
45:45- David Duke + the National Association For Advancement of White People
48:01- Rising Nazi Sentiments + Holocaust Denial
50:59- The Skinhead Subculture
51:38- Thomas Metzger, White Aryan Resistance, + the NOI
53:09- The Northwest Territorial Imperative + The Turner Diaries
55:25- Christian Identity Movement, The Order, + Alan Berg Murder
56:26- Jewish Defense League, Terrorism, + Alex Odeh Murder
57:42- The Murder of Mulugetta Seraw + Aryan Woodstock
59:44- Racists on Geraldo (Roy Innis + John Metzger)
1:00:36- Oprah Conquers Donahue
1:02:18- Morton Downey Jr + The Rise of Salacious Talk TV Shows
1:04:10- Geraldo + His Mustache
1:05:10- Sensationalizing + Debating Hate
1:06:41- Changes in Print Media
1:07:48- Ted Turner and The Launch of CNN
1:10:06- The Baby Jessica Phenomenon
1:13:10- Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, + Conservative Talk Radio
1:14:59- Hill Street Blues, 21 Jump Street, COPS, + Copaganda
1:15:59- Conclusion
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This episode of Lexual Does The 80s is about mental health, physical health, and the soul of America. How did 1980s tribalism, fears, and media lead to our present reality? What advances in technology and new attitudes exacerbated tribalism and hatred? One more episode left until we do the 1990s!
0:00- Vietnam Veterans Enter The 1980s
3:38- Intro
4:27- Medical Advancements + Breakthroughs
5:20- Healthcare Access + HIV
7:46- Mono, Toxic Shock Syndrome, Lyme
9:03- Lorenzo's Oil + Personal Medical Research
9:56- Nancy Cruzan, Elizabeth Bouvier, + The Right To Die Movement
13:08- Euthanasia, The Hemlock Society, Jack Kevorkian
15:09- Deaf Rights at Galludet University, Blindness Activism, + Disability Rights
18:26- Changes in Understanding Autism
20:27- Reagan's Personal Brushes with Untreated Mental Illness + Deinstitutionalization
22:18- Deinstitutionalization + Homelessness
26:13- Joyce Brown, AKA Billie Boggs and the "Right" To Be Homeless
28:02- Tompkins Square Park Riot + Police Brutality
30:00- The Unhoused and Mass Incarceration
30:49- Mental Illness + Gun Violence (Mark David Chapman)
31:40- Tyrone Mitchell, Patrick Purdy, San Ysidro Massacre
36:48- Edmond Oklahoma + "Going Postal"
37:36- Joseph T Wesbecker + Prozac
39:17- KKK + Vietnamese Fishermen in Texas
42:25- Operation Red Dog, Don Black, + Dominica
43:33- The Evolution and Fracturing of KKK
45:45- David Duke + the National Association For Advancement of White People
48:01- Rising Nazi Sentiments + Holocaust Denial
50:59- The Skinhead Subculture
51:38- Thomas Metzger, White Aryan Resistance, + the NOI
53:09- The Northwest Territorial Imperative + The Turner Diaries
55:25- Christian Identity Movement, The Order, + Alan Berg Murder
56:26- Jewish Defense League, Terrorism, + Alex Odeh Murder
57:42- The Murder of Mulugetta Seraw + Aryan Woodstock
59:44- Racists on Geraldo (Roy Innis + John Metzger)
1:00:36- Oprah Conquers Donahue
1:02:18- Morton Downey Jr + The Rise of Salacious Talk TV Shows
1:04:10- Geraldo + His Mustache
1:05:10- Sensationalizing + Debating Hate
1:06:41- Changes in Print Media
1:07:48- Ted Turner and The Launch of CNN
1:10:06- The Baby Jessica Phenomenon
1:13:10- Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, + Conservative Talk Radio
1:14:59- Hill Street Blues, 21 Jump Street, COPS, + Copaganda
1:15:59- Conclusion
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