Saturday, July 09, 2016

Delusion and Race and psychosis

I looked up the definition of delusion on Google today and this is what came up:

de·lu·sion
dəˈlo͞oZHən/
noun
noun: delusion; plural noun: delusions

    an idiosyncratic belief or impression that is firmly maintained despite being contradicted by what is generally accepted as reality or rational argument, typically a symptom of mental disorder.


Then I went and looked up the Biological Aspects of Race.  This is what I found at: http://faculty.wwu.edu/rcm/Power/Power%20first/Race%20Science_files/Biological%20Aspects%20of%20Race.html

There is great genetic diversity within all human populations. Pure races, in the sense of genetically homogenous populations, do not exist in the human species today, nor is there any evidence that they have ever existed in the past.

 Okay, so a delusion is believing in something that isn't real and race isn't real.

Interesting.

So I decided to look at what psychosis is.  I looked at http://www.nami.org/Learn-More/Mental-Health-Conditions/Early-Psychosis-and-Psychosis

Psychosis is characterized as disruptions to a person’s thoughts and perceptions that make it difficult for them to recognize what is real and what isn’t. These disruptions are often experienced as seeing, hearing and believing things that aren’t real or having strange, persistent thoughts, behaviors and emotions.

Psychosis is characterized as difficulty in determining what is real and what is not real.  Race isn't real.  Race is a delusion.  Someone who believes race is real is psychotic.

This is really straightforward and satisfies Occam's Razor.

However, people like to complicate things and since they want to believe in Race and don't want to think of themselves as delusional psychotics at the same time we make shit up.

Race is a social construction. Race is a reality of society.  Race is real because we make it real by thinking and talking about it.

That's the biggest bunch of bullshit.

Race isn't real.  Race is a psychotic delusion and the actions predicated on that delusion, Racist acts, Racism, are the actions of psychotics.

period.

Psychotics will self justify anything and everything. They will invent the most convoluted and ridiculous explanations why they are the sane ones and everyone else is psychotic.

Ain't buying it.  Race ain't real.  Believing race is real because we believe race is real is a circular fallacy.  It's bullshit.

Psychosis is characterized as disruptions to a person’s thoughts and perceptions that make it difficult for them to recognize what is real and what isn’t. These disruptions are often experienced as seeing, hearing and believing things that aren’t real or having strange, persistent thoughts, behaviors and emotions. - See more at: http://www.nami.org/Learn-More/Mental-Health-Conditions/Early-Psychosis-and-Psychosis#sthash.18Sj5QNv.dpuf
Psychosis is characterized as disruptions to a person’s thoughts and perceptions that make it difficult for them to recognize what is real and what isn’t. These disruptions are often experienced as seeing, hearing and believing things that aren’t real or having strange, persistent thoughts, behaviors and emotions. - See more at: http://www.nami.org/Learn-More/Mental-Health-Conditions/Early-Psychosis-and-Psychosis#sthash.18Sj5QNv.dpuf
Psychosis is characterized as disruptions to a person’s thoughts and perceptions that make it difficult for them to recognize what is real and what isn’t. These disruptions are often experienced as seeing, hearing and believing things that aren’t real or having strange, persistent thoughts, behaviors and emotions. - See more at: http://www.nami.org/Learn-More/Mental-Health-Conditions/Early-Psychosis-and-Psychosis#sthash.18Sj5QNv.dpuf

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