James Finn
1 min readJan 26, 2025

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Oh, really? Well, I grew up in an era where Christian pastors preached about the "sinfulness" of inter-racial marriage and preached FOR legal segregation of the races. I grew up watching brave "Freedom Riders" call out racism and put their bodies on the line to fight against it. I grew up watching people protest in the streets against the way racists think, feel, and speak. Funny enough, it never occured to me that loudly disagreeing with racists made those protesters narcissists. Obviously, they were not.

Fighting for human decency and respect for marginalized people is not narcissism. You are simply, clearly wrong about that.

And it's funny (but not funny haha) that you're trying to correct a mental health professional who knows for sure that being queer is not a sign of mental illness.

I would suggest that the narcissist in this discussion is you. Denying well established medical science because of ignorant, nebulous personal feelings strikes me as the definition of narcissism, not to mention, quote possibly, sociopathy.

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James Finn
James Finn

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James Finn is an LGBTQ columnist, a former Air Force intelligence analyst, an alumnus of Act Up NY, and an agented but unpublished novelist.

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