Racism is normal, "healthy," and evil

 I was going to write another long, articulate post about how blaming violence on "mental health issues" is inaccurate and oppressive, and why involuntary commitment is a human rights violation.

But I have a headache. And I'm tired of writing the same thing over and over, using different wording, hoping that this one will make people acknowledge my humanity.

A racist president has emboldened racist murderers, just like we knew he would. That same racist president is using racist murderers as a pretext to strip rights from disabled people, just as we knew he would. Every liberal and progressive who bought into the "mental health" narrative is complicit. We told you. We knew. It's depressing to be right.

If you are a white American, you have had ample opportunity to notice the warning signs of violent racism reaching at a crisis point. If you are not white, you haven't had the luxury of waiting for warning signs. We have open Nazis in public office. We have the New York Times asking "moderate" Nazis to report violent Nazis to the police. American Muslims can't exercise their constitutionally guaranteed right to freedom of religion without being spied on, entrapped, and framed for alleged terrorist conspiracies, but Nazis can self-police.

Look around. Racism isn't neurodivergent. Racism is the most socially normal, neurotypical human activity of all.

Do you think only neurodivergent people believe that other ethnic groups are inferior? Read a history book. Read a newspaper. Read a blog post by an Indigenous person. Read something other than the softpedaled white nationalist propaganda that says that racism is the fault of Those Weirdos and Unintelligent people, and if everyone went to college and read the New York Times and learned to frame their racism intellectually, it wouldn't be a problem anymore. Well, colleges and the New York Times are caping for Nazis now. It looks like that approach has failed.

Neurotypical white Americans, take the plank out of your own eye. Violent racism and white nationalist terrorism are products of your social and cultural norms. They are not weird brain variants, defective mutations of normal humanity. They are normal humanity.

Neurodivergent white Americans also need to do our part in addressing and confronting the white nationalist movement. Neurodivergent people of color are the primary victims of police violence, roundups, institutionalization, forced drugging, incarceration, poverty, and homelessness. And neurodivergent people of color are exponentially more tired of writing the same things over and over again.

Nobody needs an assault rifle. Nobody needs an ethnostate. Racism is deadly. Neurobigotry is deadly. We're all tired. We're all scared. That's not an excuse. All brains are good brains. All human ethnicities are good human ethnicities. All ideologies are not good ideologies. Racism is a bad ideology. It has nothing to do with brains, and everything to do with society. Dismantling it is complex. Acknowledging it as wrong is simple.