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Podcast: Other Voices
Episode: Dr. Stephen Giordano says, “To be human is to be challenged”
Description: “Hate is not a mental illness,” says Dr. Stephen Giordano.He notes that there is no diagnostic category for hate, and it is wrong “to assume that hateful people, whatever their color, creed, or stripe, must be mentally ill.”People suffering with mental illness are more often the victims rather than the perpetrators of crime, he says.As violent crimes are increasing not just in Albany County but across the nation, Giordano says, “The solution is not just going to be a mental-health solution …. If we are alienating and isolating and stigmatizing and discriminati...