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Whom you dont like. for example, during times of slavery, slaves who left their masters were seen as having a mental illness or gay people once considered to have a mental illness. tot totalitary regimes, mental illness is being used to explain those who are dissident. how rankerous things have become between us, how tribal our partisanship has become. >> george conway talks about how mental illness shouldnt have a stig stigma, how abraham lincoln, based on historians, in all likelihood suffered...

>> its some evil power grab. >> reporter: teachers argued being terminated instead of laid off would make it harder to fine another job. >> you put a black mark, a stig stigma. >> reporter: despite repeated plays the board voted 5-3 to fire the teach ofs at the end of the veer prompting face-to-face confrontation. >> im going to be fired. >> reporter: the chair not talking. >> can you tell me why you couldnt do lay-offs instead of terminations? >> we have to go straight to executive session. wel...