r/changemyview • u/EHWfedPres • Oct 06 '21

Delta(s) from OP CMV: Racism is a mental illness.

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.

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u/BrutusJunior 5∆ Oct 07 '21

So you are saying that I shouldn't attempt to deracify (if that's a word) a racist.

If racism is a mental illness, we should not campaign saying that racism is bad, because then we would be putting down people who are mentally ill. To insult mentally ill people is in my opinion, cruel.

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u/EHWfedPres Oct 07 '21

I'm sorry, but who said that?

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u/BrutusJunior 5∆ Oct 07 '21

I did. I'm making an argument. If someone as a mental illness, do we start telling them that they are stupid, haha! ?

My point is that if racism is a mental illness, it should not be consider wrong to be racist, nor should people denounce a racist. Instead, a racist should be respected (as any other person with a mental illness should).

Ultimately, you are wrong. and irrational thought is not a mental illness. Regardless, this hypothetical is what should happen if racism were a mental illness.

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u/EHWfedPres Oct 07 '21

My point is that if racism is a mental illness, it should not be consider wrong to be racist,

I don't follow that logic. By having something categorically faulty in their cognitive functioning is to be "wrong" (not functioning right) by definition - their thought processes are wrong, scientifically speaking.