Why does it matter if she is mentally ill?
Becuase I am a pragmatist. MH cost money when you treat it or leave it untreated.
But where you seek appropirate sanctions based on specific elements like MH you increase the opportunity for curtailing repeat performances of anti social or violent behavior.
Thus reducing the number of victims created and added to the pool. Which in turn aids reducing the costs involved of managing and treating the fall out of victims' personal crisises and on a larger scale exacerbated social tensions.
Her racist rant is just that - are you trying to find mitigating circumstances and make her a 'victim'?
I have no interest in seeking minimisation.
I know on a personal level that regardless of how aware you are that somebody has dimished capisity to hit the brake between brian and gob or keep their hands to themsleves you still scar to the same extent under a torrent of bile and your skin does not devolp a special immunity agaist bruising or tearing.
I also know that if you insist that victim is required to deem quasi irrelevant, unadressable and require a muted emotional response to what was done/said to them on the basis that the person abusing them was impaired, you run a considerable risk of compounding the negative effects of the original act of abusive behavior.
There were verbal and visual clues in that video that leave room for the possibility of MH issue or substance abuse being an element in her inhibition. IF that turns out to be the case I would prefer them to be taken into consideration becuase I would prefer a stance to be taken that makes it a priority to aviod another tramfull of people being racially abused and placing her child in the best possible position to aviod following in his mother's foot steps leading to yet more racially abused people.
Why would any one want to 'help' her?
Because I am fundamentally very selfish.
The above is the result of a context made up the factors such as
-I don't like being abused and hurt
-I don't like seeing other people abused and hurt
-I don't like being left to deal with an abusive and hurting ill person in
lieu of professional help, support and treatment. Not least becuase it is the hardest job I have ever loathed. She is miserable, and both we her family and the gen pub have little to no protection against unwilling pariticpation in that misery as the whipping boys.
Even if the woman in the vid is nothing more than a bog standard gobshite I'd still like investment in whatever is deemed most suitable and useful in achieveing the aim of her keeping her trap shut and not splattering the world at large with her venom. If that takes anger management, CBT, some kind of 12 steps for gobshites, alongside sanctions....so be it.
Whatever it takes to chip away at the social and personal cost of anti social, abusive, violent and criminal behaviors.
And yes I know it would be expensive, even when the savings created by preventative and longer term management are taken into account. I just happen to think it is a price worth paying. Although I am not going to hold my breath in anticipation of mass agreeement of that evaluation.