Is Racism Mental Illness?

[DGS49]

"Joe Bruno," can a FACT be racist?

What if "racists" believe that as a general rule, African Americans are less intelligent than the U.S. population at large? But then, when the data are compiled, it turns out that the average (mean) IQ of African Americans is one whole standard deviation below that of the general population.

And what if the so-called "Achievement Gap" in schools remains, even after you normalize for wealth, social factors, school spending per pupil, gender, and every other quantifiable variable for which data are available.

Is the original hypothesis still "racist," even when proven to be true?

And if you want an example that you might find more palatable, what if a "racist" believes that Ashkenazi Jews are MORE intelligent that the general population. And so on.

Is that still a "racist" belief? Is it not proven to be true?

In fact, there are all sorts of differences between and among the races, keeping in mind that a general truth does not apply to any individual. It is only since Leftists have taken over Academe and the Media that one is not permitted to notice - and CERTAINLY not to study - these differences. Which explains the dearth of such data in the U.S. Not allowed to think about it.

 

[IM2]

"Joe Bruno," can a FACT be racist?

What if "racists" believe that as a general rule, African Americans are less intelligent than the U.S. population at large? But then, when the data are compiled, it turns out that the average (mean) IQ of African Americans is one whole standard deviation below that of the general population.

And what if the so-called "Achievement Gap" in schools remains, even after you normalize for wealth, social factors, school spending per pupil, gender, and every other quantifiable variable for which data are available.

Is the original hypothesis still "racist," even when proven to be true?

And if you want an example that you might find more palatable, what if a "racist" believes that Ashkenazi Jews are MORE intelligent that the general population. And so on.

Is that still a "racist" belief? Is it not proven to be true?

In fact, there are all sorts of differences between and among the races, keeping in mind that a general truth does not apply to any individual. It is only since Leftists have taken over Academe and the Media that one is not permitted to notice - and CERTAINLY not to study - these differences. Which explains the dearth of such data in the U.S. Not allowed to think about it.

Since IQ tests have long been proven to be inaccurate assessments of intelligence, continued use of this as an argument is based only on racial bias.

 

[DGS49]

IM2, you're joking, right? On which planet is IQ not an indication of intelligence?

You suppose that the scientific community that has been refining intelligence tests for a hundred years is...wrong?

What a fucking marooooooooooon!

 

[basquebromance]

racist ideas make people of color think less of themselves, which makes them more vulnerable to racist ideas.

racist ideas make white people think more of themselves, which further attracts them to racist ideas

 

[AveryJarhman]

racist ideas make people of color think less of themselves, which makes them more vulnerable to racist ideas.

racist ideas make white people think more of themselves, which further attracts them to racist ideas

Hello, basquebromance.

In your opinion, is racism or incompetent, ignorant parenting responsible for many black or American citizens of African descent experiencing low self esteem, as well as largely lacking empathy or compassion for their peaceful or less fortunate neighbors?

"How black Women sabotage their sons"



Peace.

 

[IM2]

IM2, you're joking, right? On which planet is IQ not an indication of intelligence?

You suppose that the scientific community that has been refining intelligence tests for a hundred years is...wrong?

What a fucking marooooooooooon!

Earth.

 

[IM2]

More and more, racism is being looked on as a public health issue. This is an important development. The Center for the Study of Racism, Social Justice and Health defines Public Health as “the collective efforts of a society to create the conditions in which people can be healthy.” The World Health Organization defines it as “a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.” These definitions when applied to racism places it on the list of public health issues. As such, a comprehensive and holistic program or policy must be implemented to address the healthcare needs of individuals facing racism.

"Racism is part of the fabric of life for African Americans and is among the causes of enduring negative health outcomes. There is really nothing new or startling in the assertion that social circumstances encountered as part of day-to-day experience influence physical health. At the turn of the last century, W. E. B. Du Bois (1906) and Kelly Miller (1897) proposed in separate manuscripts that oppressive social conditions encroaching on the lives of African Americans contributed to poor health and premature death.

Fifty years later, Frantz Fanon’s classic studies (1967, 1968) examined the effects of oppression and included a recognition of “psychosomatic”—that is physical—consequences. Currently, social epidemiologists, health psychologists, and medical sociologists have extended the insights of these important early scholars by showing how racism generates systems and practices that contribute to persistent disparities in health outcomes (Paradies 2006a; Pascoe and Richman, 2009; Williams 1997).

Estimates indicate that the failure to erase these disparities costs tens of thousands of African American lives each year (Levine et al., 2001; Williams and Mohammed, 2009). As long as the rates of the leading causes of death differ along racial lines (Centers For Disease Control and Prevention, 2008), the specter of racism will haunt the United States. The persistence of racial health disparities and of racism in any form calls scholars, therapists, activists, and political leaders to vigorous action.

Racism may impact health directly and indirectly. It can contribute to negative health outcomes indirectly by shaping the health-related behavior of oppressed groups. An important and growing body of research reveals that frustration and social upheaval stemming from racism lead to high rates of smoking, drug use, and overeating, and that these behaviors may mediate the relationship between discrimination and racial health disparities ."(Jackson and Knight, 2006).

Camara Jules P. Harrell, Tanisha I. Burford, Brandi N. Cage, Travette McNair Nelson, Sheronda Shearon, Adrian Thompson, and Steven Green, Multiple Pathways Linking Racism to Health Outcomes, US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health

 

[IM2]

Is An IQ Test An Accurate Way To Measure Intelligence Or Are Mental Abilities Something You Can’t Put A Number On?

The IQ test is an exam most of us are familiar with, regardless of whether we have taken it or not. The test was originally designed by the French psychologist Alfred Binet in the early 1900s. But in the new millennium, is the IQ test still an effective means of measuring general intelligence? According to the general consensus, the answer is "no."

An IQ test measures a person’s cognitive ability compared to the population at large. The average IQ is 100, anything above 130 is considered exceptionally smart while a score under 70 is categorized as developmental delays related to intelligence.

Intelligence is defined as general cognitive problem-solving skills. Since the days of Binet, psychologists have agreed that intelligence is much more complex than a single number and may be in fact divided into many subcategories. This is where the IQ test falls short. A Canadian study published online in the journal Neuron concluded that the IQ test is “fundamentally flawed,” seeing that its questions “grossly oversimplify the abilities of the human brain.” The report identified three indications of human intelligence: short term memory, reasoning skills, and verbal ability. None of these skills are at all accurately measured in the traditional IQ test.

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[IM2]

racist ideas make people of color think less of themselves, which makes them more vulnerable to racist ideas.

Actually it makes us less vulnerable and more resistant. But hey, I'm only black I can't know as more about being black than a white person would. What you call racism coming from blacks isn't racism.

 

[harmonica]

Mental illness does not exist.

The term "illness" implies pathology that is susceptible to treatment. Extreme, hateful racism is evil. Some people are evil. Leave it at that. What is the point of pretending that it is an "illness"?

How fucking delusional to believe that there is a drug or some treatment that will "cure" racism.

Racists have changed their views over the years. The son of Don Black renounced his father's white supremacist ideology. George Wallace, the former
Alabama governor, changed his views and apologized to Black people.

..hahahhaah--we see and know ---ONLY whites can be racists ---hahahhahahhah
bullshit
...of course you name only whites there--the blacks are just as racist ---if not more
blacks commit hate crimes at TWICE the rate of whites
Offenders

hahahha--your link starts with whites murdering blacks!! hahahhahahahahah = dumbshit
white supremacists murder less than 10 per year
blacks murder over 3000 every year
blacks 13% of the population..whites 65%
white on black murders -229
black on white murders-500
Expanded Homicide Data Table 6

...your link states ''WHITES murdering blacks'''--yet the blacks murder at FOUR times the rate of whites = your link is CRAP
..look at the FBI stats--blacks murder whites at a much higher rate!!! and the hate crime stats = link is crap

here are just a FEW of black attacks on whites
ANOTHER black hate crime

 

[sparky]

How fucking delusional to believe that there is a drug or some treatment that will "cure" racism

well, dunno 'bout you, but a few ginger and jameo's ,and i love everyone....

~S~

 

[harmonica]

Similar questions have arisen with regard to genocide. Whether individual Nazis exterminating Jews were insane or merely acting out the extremes of a pathologic society is an ongoing debate.

the nazis and Jews were the SAME race !!

 

[Lysistrata]

I can't discern any answer to whether racism is a mental illness. Nobody can. But it is strange that so many people in the U.S. who declare themselves to be followers of the Christian faith simultaneously hold definitely racist views. Given the Christian beliefs that God created all and that all were created in his image and likeness, these folks must live in a state of perpetual internal warfare.

 

[initforme]

Good point. Jesus preached about peace, not hatred. Racism and the bible do not go with each other.

 

[AveryJarhman]

I can't discern any answer to whether racism is a mental illness. Nobody can. But it is strange that so many people in the U.S. who declare themselves to be followers of the Christian faith simultaneously hold definitely racist views. Given the Christian beliefs that God created all and that all were created in his image and likeness, these folks must live in a state of perpetual internal warfare.

Hello. As an 'aspiring misanthrope', when considering the big picture relating to our ever-evolving, far too often self-destructive, imperfect human species, often I find it difficult to lay BLAME on a specific group of human beings.

Respectfully, I'm curious to learn if YOU, my American or foreign born neighbors are aware in the 1600s, during the same period of human history and evolution when UNJUST HUMAN OPPRESSION we call SLAVERY began on the North American continent, that a significant number of human beings ignorantly believed the Earth was the center of ‘everything.’

When Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) an Italian astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, and mathematician who played a major role in the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century offered evidence our Sun did not revolve around the Earth, a significant population of God and Bible embracing people CHOSE TO MAINTAIN their human ignorance by oppressing and imprisoning Free-Thinking Galileo for the remainder of his life.

Galileo got off lucky, in many other instances of VIOLENT and OPPRESSIVE human behavior, the God and Bible loving people imprisoned, savagely murdered or horrifically tortured other free thinkers who attempted using their human intellect to help educate the human race about our physical world, as well as our human condition.

Giordano Bruno - Wikipedia

"Beginning in 1593, Bruno was tried for heresy by the Roman Inquisition on charges including denial of several core Catholic doctrines, including eternal damnation, the Trinity, the divinity of Christ, the virginity of Mary, and transubstantiation. Bruno's pantheism was also a matter of grave concern.[4] The Inquisition found him guilty, and he was burned at the stake in Rome's Campo de' Fiori in 1600."

Unfortunately for mankind, credible evidence reveals God and Bible loving humans embracing ignorant, illogical beliefs in divine supernatural beings not only greatly impeded the peaceful and healthy evolution of our human species.

Reliable evidence demonstrates God and Bible embracing people are responsible for UNJUSTLY oppressing, slaughtering and torturing COUNTLESS numbers of peaceful, free-thinking human beings, many sincerely wanting to educate and improve the Quality of Life for our species.

Sadly, in today's world a fading, though still significant population of freedom loving, SLOW-TO-EVOLVE, God Bible loving people continue embracing illogical beliefs in mythical supernatural beings, as well as ignorant, illogical racist beliefs that in my opinion are demeaning to human intellect.

Equally as sad are God Bible embracing, freedom loving, SLOW-TO-EVOLVE people who in today's world apparently feel a need, as well as duty to LOUDLY bully, shame, shun, demean, discriminate against ans denigrate as "C**ns, "Sell-Outs" and "Uncle Toms" our peaceful, accomplished, successful fellow black or American citizens, friends, neighbors and co-workers of African descent choosing to peacefully pursue their OWN individually unique vision for L, L, (Love) and Happiness.

Justice Clarence Thomas, Attorney Larry Elder, Dr. Thomas Sowell, Ph.D Dr. Ben Carson, M.D., Crystal Wright, Allen West, Stephen A. Smith, Stacey Dash, Herman Cain, Senator Tim Scott and Dr. Walter Williams, Ph.D, are a few PEACEFUL, accomplished, FREE THINKING American citizens targeted for HATE & DISCRIMINATION by a significant population of apparent illogical, slow-to-evolve "Pro Black" minded American people.

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Am I the only American believing our imperfect human species will continue evolving, learning day by day about our human condition and physical world, slowly shedding our human ignorance and adapting as we continue plodding along trying to improve the Quality of Life for all human beings!

♥ Peace ♥

 

[DGS49]

I can't discern any answer to whether racism is a mental illness. Nobody can. But it is strange that so many people in the U.S. who declare themselves to be followers of the Christian faith simultaneously hold definitely racist views. Given the Christian beliefs that God created all and that all were created in his image and likeness, these folks must live in a state of perpetual internal warfare.

Lysistrata, please give a clear, concrete example of a "racist" view that is held by "followers of the Christian faith." I've been a Christian for 70 years, more or less, and these racist views have escaped my notice.

 

[DGS49]

One number cannot elucidate the entire realm of intelligence. No question about it. People might be intelligent at Math, but can't follow a Map. People may be musical geniuses but can't read - or read music. My personal intelligence has been measured at "nearly off the chart" (Army GT score of 152 out of 156), but I can't remember peoples' names for shit. One number isn't a magic elucidator.

Nevertheless, the correlation between IQ and success - no matter how you measure success - is remarkable in the extreme. IQ correlates with the level of formal education, relative income and wealth, knowledge (as contrasted with formal education), success within one's profession, basic life choices, marital success, and all sorts of other indicia of "success," including "morality."

And when you apply that general principle to RACE, it explains basically everything...to the point that, in the current social environment, "low" IQ "trumps" racism by far. For the vast number of Black people whose lives are (figuratively speaking) shit, the reasons boil down to things like, (a) failure to take advantage of free public education, (b) bastardy, (c) horrible life choices, (d) criminality and near-criminality, (e) failure of diligence/perseverence, and other CONTROLLABLE factors. While racism exists, it lies mainly in the hearts of POWERLESS WHITES, and it seldom directly affects the lives of "minorities" in any tangible way.

So to blame "inequality" on RACISM is pure, self-serving balderdash. It is the predictable product of sub-standard intelligence and its practical progeny, not racism in the society. What racist induces Black women to have children with no husband/father in the house? What racist or group of racists induce Black Yoots to drop out of school at horrific rates? Who impels the criminality in the Black community - especially violent criminality? White racists? Are you shitting me?

The school districts with the highest spending-per-pupil in the land exist largely in communities that are majority-Black, and the product of that exorbitant spending is a cruel joke on the mainly-white taxpayers. While it is worthwhile to spend "more" in order to enhance the educational experience of a demographic with substandard intelligence, that enhanced spending will NEVER eliminate the "achievement gap," and demanding more and more money for the corrupt academic mafia, in the hope of eliminating the infamous "gap" is bullshit. It will NEVER go away until we are entirely a society of mulattoes. A couple hundred years from how.

I have spoken.