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Racism should be classified as a mental illness. Maybe people will actually take interest in getting better.
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Anonymous 1w

What’s racism that it should be classified as mental illness? Stabbing someone for their race or using a slur? I have sympathy on someone who is maimed or killed for what color they are but if you’re such a pussy that you can’t walk away when someone calls you a slur, you’re mentally ill with anxiety and paranoia, not the one who called you a slur.

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Anonymous 1w

Almost everyone in the world is racist. In order for it to be an illness it has to be abnormal

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Anonymous 1w

Being gay or transgender is a mental illness already

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 1w

It was normal to get the plague back in the dark ages, but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t still an illness

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 1w

It was not normal. It completely uprooted society

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 1w

Speak for yourself, being racist is a choice, bud

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 1w

I meant normal as in common place and unsurprising

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 1w

And the black plague was neither

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 1w

Pretty common if it killed HALF of the people in Europe at the time

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 1w

Nope, incredibly rare event. A phenomenon. Just because everyone experiences something does not mean it’s a common occurrence. Your argument is dumb as bricks and you know it

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 1w

It was a common occurrence. WAS. Maybe if you knew how to read you’d be able to understand.

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 1w

No it wasn’t. It was so uncommon it changed the foundation of Europe

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 1w

“Just because everyone experiences something does not mean it’s a common experience.” Uh.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 1w

Also are you genuinely arguing that disease was uncommon and rare in the past?

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 1w

The Black Death was an uncommon event. Stop being obtuse

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 1w

Not really. Illness is well known to be been population devastating. Smallpox literally drove the Native Americans to nonexistence, and is theorized to be a major cause for why the dinosaurs may have gone extinct. Incidents like the Black Death were absolutely not uncommon historically. Entire cities, populations, races, countries, and even species have been wiped out by disease single-handedly. Don’t take our modern luxuries for granted and think that that’s how it was historically.

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 1w

Omfg you know it was uncommon why are you trying to die on this hill

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 1w

“Hey the entire continent is being wiped out by a disease” “Oh that’s pretty normal”

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 1w

You are obsfucating human response to disaster with commonality. Continents being wiped out by disease was common historically, but obviously going to be destructive to us as a species and we would be terrified and alarmed by it, just as the Native Americans and Europeans were. Doesn’t mean it’s not natural. Not sure what your point is. Death is common, though we’re still alarmed by it. Also, if I’m not wrong, did you argue that racism is more intrinsic than disease to humans?

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 1w

Even if that happened every century, which it didn’t, it happened maybe once every few thousand years, 2 out of 100 years is still a rare event. You’re wrong and you know it stop the bs

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 1w

This is factually incorrect the book that psychiatrists use to diagnose medical disorders have taken those out of the definition for mental illness a long time ago

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