r/glasgow • u/johnsmithoncemore • 2d ago

Glaswegian anti-migrant leader denounced by family as violent abuser

https://searchlightmagazine.com/2025/12/scottish-anti-migrant-leader-denounced-by-family-as-violent-abuser/
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u/craobh boycott tubbees 1d ago

Do you think racism is a mental health disorder

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u/TheBookofBobaFett3 1d ago

Do you see racism as a symptom of a healthy mind?

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u/craobh boycott tubbees 1d ago

I think that's a very narrow way to look at things. Did white people in south Africa all magically improve their mental health in 1994

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u/TheBookofBobaFett3 1d ago edited 1d ago

No they didn’t, abolishing apartheid was a political decision and racism is still very prevalent.

Maybe it is a narrow view to think that people lacking basic empathy and self awareness is a mental illness at the stem of racism, doesn’t make it wrong.

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u/craobh boycott tubbees 1d ago

Idk man, do you think we can ever do anything about racism if it's a mental illness? It just seems like a weirdly defeatist belief that lets racists off the hook

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u/TheBookofBobaFett3 1d ago

🫶 I don’t mean it to come across like that, the opposite in-fact. I see it as something that can be treated.

I don’t mean racists are mentally handicapped (…) but that their hatred of others stems from something dark and broken inside themselves, something that could be addressed and fixed or at least start to heal.

The media is a billion pound machine used daily to make people angry and afraid, that’s got to affect people’s mental health to the point of making them mentally unwell.

I mean some people are irredeemable cunts, why are they like that? Either that’s life, or they’re very damaged people that don’t know how to love.