Thursday, April 25, 2013

An Object Lesson in Why White Racism Should be Added to the DSM-V: According to Rush Limbaugh, Trayvon Martin and the Boston Marathon Bombers are Being "Protected" by the "Liberal Media"


Psychologists have debated back and forth within their professional community if white racism should be added to the Diagnostic System Manual of Mental Disorders. There are smart folks on both sides of this debate. Some suggest that by adding pathological racism to the DSM that it will be a means for white racists to escape punishment because they are "sick." Others make a strong argument that pathological racism so damages the mind that it creates a type of mania, which most certainly should be added as a legitimate type of mental disorder so that clinicians can then diagnose and treat it appropriately.

The type of sick mind that would equate Trayvon Martin, a person murdered because he was walking home, guilty of being a young person of color in a neighborhood patrolled by a cop fetishist racist killer named George Zimmerman, with the Boston Marathon bombers, is beyond my ability to understand or comprehend.

My comprehension of pathological white racism is apparently quite limited as Rush Limbaugh suggested such an equivalence today. On one hand, I am glad that I cannot make sense of the Mouth of Madness known as Rush Limbaugh; on the other hand, I am deeply concerned that so many of his millions of listeners agree with Limbaugh's pathological white supremacy.

Perhaps "racism" should not be in the DSM-V when it is released in May of 2013? But, I would suggest that a listing appropriate for Rush Limbaugh's various pathologies should be included. What should that entry read? And what of his many sicknesses should be profiled?

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j.ottopohl said...

Like a lot of other scholars I think that viewing racism as a pathology is a mistake. See the works of Eduardo Bonilla-Silva in particular on this issue. Rather I consider racism to consist of policies and institutions institutions that deny rights and resources to certain groups of people defined by ancestry. People who support and maintain these policies and institutions are not insane. They are perfectly rational as they generally benefit from these policies and institutions.

j.ottopohl said...

I don't know. I have not lived in the US in a long time. Since January 2011 I have been in Ghana. Before that I was in Kyrgyzstan. But, I do know that racial discrimination is not a result of "insane" people not realizing that people of different ancestry should be treated equally. There were rational reasons in terms of benefits why for instance White South Africans supported apartheid. The apartheid regime was not comprised of crazy people.

Wavenstein said...

No way should racism be classified as a mental disorder. I dont want the sick bastards to have a psychological disorder to fall back on when it comes time to answer for their racialized atrocities. Racism does the work of maintaining white supremacy and the privileges that go along with it. In a sick way there is nothing illogical about doing everything one could do to maintain their "status" in this twisted society we live in. Turning racism into a psychological issue would unfortunately turn out to be yet another branch of the tainted tree of white privilege.

Maike Hudson said...

There is a difference between institutional racism and wingnut derangement. The former uses the latter to perpetuate itself, though.

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Kyle Younger said...

There is already a diagnosis in the DSM for racists. It is called Narcissistic personality disorder. The DSM puts each psychiatric diagnosis into (axes) that can be related and/or contribute to the disorder. Can racism be classified on an Axis...YES, I think so.

chauncey devega said...

I didn't know that. How does that work in clinical diagnosis, i.e. to include the label "pathological racist?"

chauncey devega said...

It is very logical indeed...but Mr. Spock would not deem it so as racism is a violation of IDIC. Just ghetto nerding out on you for a second.

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Basic in group vs out group resource competition?

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Peter Kmet said...

Why are we discussing only white racism? Every color has its own racism and even within a single color there are sub-racisms. Or do you really believe that only whites are capable of racism?

chauncey devega said...

racism is a very specific thing separate and apart from ethnocentrism or simply bigotry. racial chauvinism is different from racism too.


race is a social construction; racism is a function of those power relationships.

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