Try eliminating offensive language from your vocabulary. That includes using no illness as an adjective, such as the words "insane" or "crazy”. This is a very small step you can take to help. If you're not sure what to say instead, remember the word "crazy" can be replaced by an abundance of words. Crack open a thesaurus or think about a word that would more accurately describe what you are talking about.
How you can help
Thank you to Vanessa Wells for donating your amazing proofreading services to Liberate Minds and thank you to Mark Henick for creating the Change.org petition to get Amazon to remove the offensive t-shirts. You're both awesome!!
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