Racism is not a mental illness.  Mental illnesses are organic brain disorders outside the influence of parenting and environment. They are neuro dev illnesses causing serious impact to normal cognitive function and impairments of the synapses in our brain that send messages.

Racism is a learned hatred response to “other.” Serious mental illness should not be compared to racism, assholianism, selfishness or greed. People with serious mental illnesses are typically super nice who are scared to death of what their brains are doing and telling them.

I refuse to let racists get called mentally ill. They are selfish ugly assholes. BIG DIFFERENCE. If racism were a psychiatric illness, it would respond to medical interventions and it doesn’t.

The “cure” for racism is understanding; the cure for mental illness is non existent: the symptoms of it are only abated by therapies and medicine.

Calling hateful goons mentally ill does a great disservice to the suffering patients we step over every day on our sidewalks, lives cut short by brain disease, who are already disparaged enough in our culture.