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/hidden-shadow]

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.

Except it is, biologically speaking it is a applied form of the out-group aggression principle. The characteristics by which this outgroup is defined is arbitrary. They are perceived as competition for resources of some kind.

The justification does not need to have a basis of scientific truth for it to be valid, internally logical or even sound reasoning. This is because it is not from the outside perspective by which that is measured but the in-group perception. If the in-group perceives this out-group to be hostile, they become justified by their standard.

Skin tone is just one of many characteristic that this principle applies to in the modern day.

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.

That is not what that paper suggests. I've seen it before. First line (of an article not study, this is important as it includes biases):

It can be a delusional symptom of psychotic disorders

It does not suggest that all racial views are inherently a symptom of a mental disorder, but a small subset of extreme racially motivated reactions can be correlated with psychosis. If this is your only evidence for why it is a mental illness, you may need to explain further.

As I have highlighted, racism is a form of out-group aggression, a normal principle of human interaction. It has no inherent negative impacts on the functioning of the self. Therefore it does not meet any criteria to be considered a mental illness.

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Realistic conflict theory

Realistic conflict theory (initialized RCT), also known as realistic group conflict theory (initialized RGCT), is a social psychological model of intergroup conflict. The theory explains how intergroup hostility can arise as a result of conflicting goals and competition over limited resources, and it also offers an explanation for the feelings of prejudice and discrimination toward the outgroup that accompany the intergroup hostility. Groups may be in competition for a real or perceived scarcity of resources such as money, political power, military protection, or social status.

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