Current Events > Do any of you think racism should be treated as a mental illness?

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CedarPointcp
03/02/21 8:15:18 PM
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do you?



have heard this brought up before, on this site as well
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KazGT6
03/02/21 8:26:19 PM
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idk
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Will_VIIII
03/02/21 8:26:42 PM
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No, its a learned behavior

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Unsugarized_Foo
03/02/21 8:26:44 PM
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With medicine?

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The_Creep_2020
03/02/21 8:28:51 PM
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Not in and of itself, but its more likely to be related to inculturation and a lack of education/exposure to other cultures.

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Ivany2008
03/02/21 8:30:20 PM
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stuff like that usually is a learned behavior from the people around you. It's a hard thing to unlearn certain behaviors and thought processes.
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ROOTFayth
03/02/21 8:31:12 PM
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seems to be more prevalent among dumber people it seems too
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Tsukasa1891
03/02/21 8:35:36 PM
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No. If racism is classified as a mental illness, then you're just giving racist people a excuse for their behavior as well as giving them the chance to throw it back in your face for making fun of their disability. Do you really want to be the one who's treated like a bigot for calling out a racist?
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EnvoyOfTheLight
03/02/21 8:38:37 PM
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Will_VIIII posted...
No, its a learned behavior

Kinda, but there's no behavior that is purely learned, at least not at this level. The innate quality of tribalism can be exacerbated, sure, and I think that people can be predisposed to it, in the same way that some people resist tribalism, even if they're born into a culture that sustains such.

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EnvoyOfTheLight
03/02/21 8:40:07 PM
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Tsukasa1891 posted...
No. If racism is classified as a mental illness, then you're just giving racist people a excuse for their behavior as well as giving them the chance to throw it back in your face for making fun of their disability. Do you really want to be the one who's treated like a bigot for calling out a racist?

I think this is an overly defensive consideration. It automatically negates racism's validity if you admit it's only coming from a mental disorder, rather than any rational thought process.

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Fam_Fam
03/02/21 8:42:29 PM
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*commits hate crime*

"my client is pleading not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect"

yeah, no
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Lost_All_Senses
03/02/21 8:46:24 PM
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It is a mental illness, but we don't got time to help racists while way less toxic people also need help. Racist don't want to be helped. Hell, Id probably put pedophiles on the list of who to help before them. Because at least a lot of pedophiles understand they're fucked up. You can't help someone who won't admit there's a problem. We just had a 4 year example of that running the country.

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EnvoyOfTheLight
03/02/21 8:49:13 PM
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Fam_Fam posted...
*commits hate crime*

"my client is pleading not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect"

yeah, no

The only way you get out of a crime like that is by showing you have no comprehension of the fact that you even committed a crime, and then you get kept in a psychiatric ward instead.

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