Victor Jarra and Joe Hill are two who "got into real trouble" for singing their song(s). They were both deprived of their lives for daring to sing points of view that some would say were politically correct in order that those views might be diminished and negated.

"Emotionally challenged" (a decent term I think) is simply a term that forces my father-in-law not to ignore his own daughter's (my wife's) horrendous mental problems simply because, in his generation, NOBODY was supposed to admit to or acknowledge mental illness in the family at all--ever. Mentally ill, emotionally challenged, crazy, nuts, psycho ---all are terms that mean the same thing within the cranium of the sufferer. The disease feels the same no matter what term is used. The use of any term for "the disease" says more about the speaker than anything els. And it says nothing about the sufferer of any value at all. I, for one, prefer emotionally challenged. It is, at least, a halting step forward. I will use any term that helps my spouse to get through the next half hour with less symptoms.

Art Thieme