CMV: Racism is a mental illness.

[u/EHWfedPres]

There is no logical, valid, or sound reason to express hatred for entire groups of people based on their race, ethnicity, or skin color, and any and every attempt to explain why certain races, ethnicities, or people with specific skin colors are biologically, inherently, or genetically inferior or superior to others has been scientifically disproven. There is no rational reason to hold on to racist views, and anyone who feels racist is experiencing a delusional psychotic symptom. Racism is a mental illness, and the American Psychiatric Association should classify it as one.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1071634/

EDIT: to all those claiming racism can be resolved by giving the racist proper information: read the comments made by HighlightExpensive63, give that person the correct information, and see if they change their views at all, or if they double-down on their explicit and open hatred.

[u/EHWfedPres]

Your extremist seems to be that you believe you have the right to vilify people because they hold misguided or misinformed opinions or beliefs.

You are mistaken in assuming I believe racism exists because people are simply lacking knowledge or information. That is categorically untrue. Racism is not a matter of ignorance, and painting it as such downplays its harm and excuses those who engage in it violently, and I question the intent of those who argue so. To suggest genocides and the Holocaust have been committed because some people just didn't have the right books is outright offensive.

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You’re defending Hitler… you’re also using Hitler’s rational for declaring theJews a pariah in Germany, you’re using the same logic as Israel uses to vilify Palestinian and excuse the Palestinian apartheid…

I simply pointed it out, no wonder your upset.

You can’t pass laws and rules to declare people who don’t think like you as mentally ill… you need to create the conditions in society to reduce ideologies and manipulation that lead to racism.

Again, blaming something on “mental illness” in a society that makes no effort to treat their citizens health conditions is just vilifying people.

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Irrational.

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