{"id":2424,"date":"2022-05-23T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-23T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/?p=2424"},"modified":"2024-07-14T05:38:52","modified_gmt":"2024-07-14T10:38:52","slug":"bigotry-a-sign-of-the-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/2022\/05\/23\/bigotry-a-sign-of-the-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Bigotry – A Sign of the Times?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“You can tell a bigot, but you can’t tell him much.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bigot: a person who is obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices; one who regards or treats the members of a group (such as a religious, racial or ethnic group) with hatred and intolerance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[From French bigot<\/em>, a religiously intolerant person, hypocrite]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Psychiatrists love to debate whether bigotry is a mental illness<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They might qualify the condition as “pathological bigotry” to emphasize that they really mean a medical disease condition, rather than just plain ignorance. Although they’ve got ignorance covered as well, with a diagnosis of “neurocognitive disorder.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, they need to make it seem to be a medical condition in order to diagnose it as a psychiatric disorder and prescribe harmful and addictive psychiatric drugs<\/a> for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The latest psychiatric “research” demands more funds to investigate how prejudice supposedly is biologically based<\/a> in the brain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders<\/em> (DSM<\/a>) enshrines discrimination as a mental disorder: “Target of (perceived) adverse discrimination or persecution”. But notice that it’s the victim, not the perpetrator, who is labeled with a diagnosis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To what might we owe the surging prevalence of bigotry and prejudice in modern society? How does an apparently rational person sink to the level of devious writhings of secret hate?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In truth, the hard core bigot is completely terrified of anyone becoming more powerful than them. To such a person, everyone else is an enemy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When confronted by a bigot, what can you do about this? It is counterproductive to make someone wrong for their attitude. Here is what I do: With a big smile, I tell them exactly what they are doing. For example I might say, “That’s a particularly bigoted attitude.” They’ll usually deny it, because such a person cannot detect this in themselves. End of interaction. You are now forewarned; go cultivate better relationships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a way of fighting back, report instances of intolerance, discrimination, bigotry and prejudice by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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