As a frequent doom-scroller, the whole John Hinckley Jr. media thing leaves me completely depressed. He is a mentally ill guy who has been trying to make a life for himself after 30 years of incarceration in a mental hospital, and one of the few things he has is a certain level of notoriety. I’ve seen approximately one compassionate interview/etc (the interview conducted by the singer of Eve 6 for input mag: John Hinckley Jr. speaks: 'I'm trying to not dwell on the past'), and the rest are treating him as a living punchline.
He has a minor twitter account, and he’s basically treated as a non-human entity constantly. Even in this interview, he gets the “and coming from you, that’s quite a statement,” which is just so needless and hateful, it just brings me down. Talk shit about the man in your report if you must, but do you need to kick him in person?
