Is Racism a mental health issue?

Question

I'm ANTIFA and i strongly oppose Racism. I believe it's a default on the brains part. I've heard others say this too.....

Answer 1

Yes, a definite fear/resentment phobia

Answer 2

The idea is nonsense. Stalin had the same idea about communism. Anybody who disagreed with him must be either a criminal or insane so was either imprisoned or put in a mental asylum. The assumptions behind you question lead me to think that you are a narrow minded bigot, I only hope that the rest of ANTIFA are not the same
It is to some extent normal to feel more comfortable with people who are similar to yourself and racism is just an extension of that feeling to an unacceptable degree in a civilised society.
Having lived in Brixton for 20+ years and seeing the hatred and prejudice between the Blacks and Asians. I am saddened by seeing people both practising and objecting to racial prejudice at one and the same time

Answer 3

Racism is the emotional tool used to prevent any rational discussion on the imposition of mixed creeds and cultures in countries of western Europe.

A global conspiracy is at work, planned and executed by a very secret cabal dominated by politicians and business men.

Their ultimate aim may well be to mix all nationalities and break up the concept of nations and nationality to achieve world wide peace and stability.

Different cultures can exist in harmony if the process is gradual. If the mix is at too great a pace then disharmony, discontent and discord ensue.

Current day examples are the conflicts between Shias and Sunnis (in their native Iraq), Arabs and Israelis, Muslims and Christians and many other civil war zones such as Nigeria, Sudan and Sri Lanka.

Religion is the most common source of conflict. Rather than racism more emphasis should be placed on religious tolerance, without any one religious faith believing they have the God given right to impose their beliefs upon other faiths with the sole intention of seeking world domination.

Answer 4

Mental illness is only an excuse for the general public to be forgiving and accepting of racism. It REALLY has nothing to do with mental retardation or mental disorder... it has to do with what the person is exposed to as a child, and during the formative years and sometimes as an adult by some perceived harm caused by someone or a group of individuals of a particular race...that makes the individual hate those they perceive as underservingly superior to them... it's based on ignorance and stupidity which is often passed down from one generation to another.

But, it's also not against the law (hate crimes based on racial differences IS indeed against the law, and rightfully so) but, it's their Constitutional right, freedom and liberty to be idiots, dumb and ignorant buffoons. It ain't against the law to be stupid. It ain't against the law to be ignorant... although some of those goofy neo-Nazis and silly hooded klansmen abuse their rights, oliberites and freedoms to be stupid and idiotic...!

I wish people who assume a more pragmatic attitude toward and those poor dumb f*cks; I wish people would just LAUGH at those clowns... imagine a Shakespearean actor trying to do a serious scene on stage and the audience breaks out laughing... ! Same effect would follow, but the minute people react to them and get angry and hostile... it confirms, substantiates and legitimizes the idiots because they have succeeded in annoying, angering, outraging the general public.

Answer 5

To take your theory and apply it to all ... that would make those that live as religous people mentally impaired.
Your way off track and just as bigoted as those with racial issues, not all issues you do not agree with revert to a mental problem, but just a lack of understanding and good teaching. You can pick a set of ideals and apply it, every time there will be another guy with a different set that defines the opposite and is just as logical.
In fact, the more you think about it, how much isnt a mental issue ? Can you say that all people have mental issues ... maybe so. It is what makes us human, as apposed to a robot.

Answer 6

People blame too much on the brain, I think we have good and bad people in this world, a lot has to do with the spirits we inherit.

Sure the mind has to allow what we feel to be expressed, a strong mind is the only way to supress what we feel, but ultimately if we have foul spirits we're going to detest others for little or no reason at all; age, attire, faith, mind, race, scent, sex, size or sound etc.

Answer 7

There is a mental health issue amongst half-wits who seem determined to multiculturalise the UK against the wishes of the majority of UK citizens ( A referendum would prove most indigenous UK people oppose multiculturalism )
The mental health issue is a version of "holier than thou" referring to people who want to prove they are "holier than other people"
Now it is "more multicultural than thou" those like the ANTIFA who gain smug satisfaction by claiming to be "intelligent" in wanting to fill the UK with 10s of millions of ethnically different people. There are no rules in place to prevent 10s of millions of immigrants of any race coming here and most UK people oppose this.

Answer 8

not in the way you mean, its actualy a strategic warfare issue.
peoples countries are being routed by design planing, keep a country poor entice them to a richer country,cause anguish for the indigenous population causing them to leave for a better country, destroying the power of loyalty to nation, enabling the nations to become easy pray because of their weakened state, allowing th big rich blood suckers to take over the nations and plunder its spiritual sence of belonging and having its own country
then plundering its whealth. the mental illness is with the ego maniacs who cause this terrable upheaval, and think they can rule the world,The e.u. is an mental illness, because we know from old that power corrupts and ultimat pawer corrupts ultimatly
the fault lies with the manipulating corrupt, Its time they were treated for it.

Answer 9

No its a learned behaviour.

You might be brought up in a racist atmosphere or you may live in a poor area, with lots of crime and poverty where people blame other races for these things. You are not "born" racist you become racist through the influence of external factors.

Answer 10

I don't think so. It's more to do with upbringing I would imagine and your parents views. I think it is slowly becoming diluted now and I don't think there is as much racism as there used to be. Having said that, I have seen more recently examples of racism against Asian people by black people, and vice versa, that I hadn't really noticed before.

Answer 11

I think it's more to do with experience and upbringing. But then again all those factors do effect the way we think, so I agree - It is a mental health issue. It's unhealthy to hate and what is racism if not hate....