#the psychology of bigotry

[sophieinwonderland]

"Endogenesis" is a "Conspiracy Theory" According to r/systemscringe...

It finally happened. The hate subreddit, r/systemscringe, has made their hit list of acceptable targets to post uncensored.

If anyone is here from that sub because I was added to that hit list... first... hi! 👋

Second, I found this funny in their criteria for who qualifies...

I briefly touched on them considering RAMCOA a conspiracy theory in another post so I'm not going to address that here. I'll leave that up to others who are more familiar with and educated on the topic than I.

No, I want to talk about the "endogenesis" part of that.

One may ask, who are all these whacky conspiracy theorists who believe you can have multiple agents, distinct personality states or "dissociative parts" with no trauma or mental disorders present?

Well, we can start with Richard Kluft, an expert in dissociative identity disorder, who referred to a possibility that there exists a nonpathological "endogenous" form of dissociative identity disorder back in 2001.

While a one-off mention, this reference to a possible endogenous form of DID predated the adoption of the term "endogenic" by the plural community by a solid 13 years.

For more explicit support, there is Eric Yarbrough, who holds the highest honor from the American Psychiatric Association, as a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.

This book that explicitly acknowledges non-disordered and non-traumagenic plurality was reviewed and published by the American Psychiatric Association themselves.

We have Samuel Veissiere, professor of psychiatry at McGill University, who has written on the personhood of tulpas, a primarily psychological type of created headmate.

This was from a book that was peer reviewed and published by the highly reputable Oxford University Press.

We have the authors of the Haunted Self and creators of the Theory of Structural Dissociation, who have suggested hypnosis and mediumship may involve "self-conscious" "dissociated parts of the personality."

While they don't explicitly say for certain they are, they do acknowledge the possibility and encourage further research.

And then you have the ICD-11 by the World Health Organization which states you can experience the presence of multiple distinct identity states without a disorder:

"Distinct Identity States" is the term the ICD-11 uses for alters earlier on.

And these are only to name a few.

At this point, endogenic and non-disordered plurality has been acknowledged and supported by numerous psychologists and psychiatrists.

It's been acknowledged as a possibility that needs to be researched by the creators of the Theory of Structural Dissociation.

It's been explicitly acknowledged in a book reviewed and published by the American Psychiatric Association.

It's been supported in the ICD-11 by the World Health Organization.

According to anti-science hate-subreddit r/systemscringe, all these people and institutions are conspiracy theorists.

One has to ask then who the real conspiracy theorists are? Are they the endogenic systems saying "look, this is what the scientists and major academic and medical institutions have said," or are they the people who just shout to the rooftops that the ones they disagree with are wrong? The ones who have encouraged a prominent psychiatrist to have their license revoked just for supporting endogenic systems in academic literature, the same exact way COVID-deniers attacked doctors who supported mask mandates?

[neuroticboyfriend]

talk is action. your mouth is moving. your body is projecting sound as words that others understand and are affected by. it is an action, and it's one that has the capability to do good and bad, heal and harm. what matters is that we follow up our talk with other actions that promote kindness and health. this is also why words aren't just words - the things we say can enact as much violence as our fists. and we owe it to each other to not hurt others, when we can avoid it (i.e, not in offense, but defense).

[doctormastertardis]

Another personal take on today's Neo-liberalism-- how IT is the OTHER SIDE OF THE SAME COIN AS ALT-RIGHT WINGERS (ya know how "new age spirituality" is now becoming synonymous with CULTURAL APPROPRIATION and ABUSE APOLOGISM and NO ONE IS BATTING AN EYE ABOUT IT)....

Just saw a post from a "trans person" about how it's "ableism" to call out an abusive person who is IN THE HIGHER SPECTRUM OF NARCISSISTIC PERSONALITY DISORDER because "being a narcissist is a mental disorder"... are you fucking kidding me???

(fyi, mirroring is a form of MALEVOLENT manipulation - mirroring is something that a lot of ABUSIVE people in the HIGHER SPECTRUM OF NARCISSISTIC PERSONALITY DISORDER DO TO HARM OTHERS).

And I just smdh.... reactive liberalism will excuse anything these days.

...reminds me of American/"Western" kids who are groomed to think being "trans" is about ASSIMILATING to the hetero-normative PERSPECTIVE AND EXPECTATIONS of GENDER EXPRESSION.

it's the same type of oppressive heteronormativity???? (this is why I don't vibe with folks who say shit like "the youth today are kinder" -- NO THEY ARE NOT. they've become more SKILLED at mimicking societal conventions).

OPPRESSION TODAY HAS BECOME MORE INSIDIOUS.

Y'all really need to stop thinking in BINARY.

Just because someone's gay, doesn't mean they can't be racist, or classist, or oppressive??? Just like, just because someone adheres to the identity politics of "latinidad" or any other "non-white" identity doesn't mean they're "progressive"????

(I used to run decolonizeyourself.tumblr.com and decolonizeyourselfarchive.tumblr.com)

....Just because some "westerner" identifies as "trans" doesn't mean they know shit-all about "ableism"!

Please stop throwing around the word "ableism" whenever folks talk about ABUSE that are coming from a person with NPD.

[darling-valentine]

every now and then I remember that time my transfem friend and I were talking about her trauma and her transition and suddenly she said "but yeah you didn't go through any of that because trans men don't get harassed or bullied and have it overall easier" and I just felt so deeply upset at how she just assumed all the pain I went through couldn't exist because I somehow had it easier. I didn't even say anything because I didn't want her to think I was angry at her, because if I do then suddenly I'm an Angry Man that's exaggerating

[universalsatan]

Hey bestie, no need to answer this, but I saw u reblogged something from roach - works, and I just wanna let u know that she's a major terf

oh!!! thank you for this fr. i'm answering this bc i just wanna say that i don't have shinigami eyes and i'm on mobile most of the time, so these pointers are much appreciated <33

[void-thegod]

It will never cease to amaze me how the same people who complain about cishet norms being bad will still also perpetuate them.

It's like ... idk. Is there a parallel? Why perpetuate oppressive systems? At all?

Why judge a fish for its inability to climb?

Maybe some of us will always be awkward and cringe! Do you think that's a legitimate reason to dislike someone as a person?

Especially considering how many people ignore/pander to assholery of all types?

It seems American culture has a serious issue with vulnerability, self awareness, and accountability. I just stated the obvious, I know.

After all: look at the world. People justify all sorts of horrid nonsense - from flat earth to racism to sexism and capitalism.

Everyone is looking for a way to not address the elephant in the room: they're fucked up and don't want to deal with it.

I get it. But it's a lot easier and smarter to deal with the problem instead of letting it fester and manifest in all sorts of fucked up ways.

Like how many Americans (and others) rejoice in the imperialism they benefit from as well as the imperialism/genocide forced upon others (yea I'm talking about Israel/Palestine)

Ofc I know there are many people who don't have their heads up their ass and are compassionate enough to actually do what they can - for themselves and others.

But man.

There are a lot of people who still need to get it together if humanity is going to make it out of this mess (extinction).

[g4rchomp]

my partner is asking me if I want to attend his extended family reunion that lasts two days in a remote part of the state in august and I said yes #nobelpeaceprize #angelonearth

[quotesfrommyreading]

Isabel Fattal: In your newsletter post, you wrote that anti-Semitism is not just a personal prejudice—it’s a conspiracy theory. Can you explain this concept?

Yair Rosenberg: When people think about anti-Semitism, they often think about it through the prism of other prejudices they encounter, which typically take the form of people saying, “I don’t like people like that.” “Like that” could be Jewish, Black, Muslim. And that is certainly a component of anti-Semitism, but it's not the only component. Anti-Semitism shares things with other prejudices, but it also has things that distinguish it from other prejudices. One of these distinctions is that anti-Semitism can take the form of a conspiracy theory about how the world works. It blames society’s problems on some sinister, string-pulling Jewish cabal behind the scenes.

This conspiracy theory is infinitely malleable. Whatever the problems you perceive in the world, you can blame them on the same invisible culprit. So you end up with people who have entirely opposite worldviews who somehow land on the Jews as their enemies. You can have an Islamic extremist who takes a synagogue hostage in Texas, and you can have a white supremacist who [allegedly] shoots up a synagogue in Pittsburgh because he sees the synagogue as facilitating the entry of Muslims into the United States as refugees. [Robert Bowers pleaded not guilty; his trial is set for April 2023.] These are people who have completely disparate ways of seeing the world, but somehow, they’ve ended up in the same place, because they’re both conspiracy theorists.

  —  Why Conspiracy Theorists Always Land on the Jews

[autumnalhalcyon]

vaguely aggrivating, following someone who's advocating for a movement that, while agreeing with aspects of it, leaves you with questions and concerns, so you ask about it, making clear that you agree with many concepts stated, but also that you don't understand other concepts but want to, and instead of explaining their movement or even mentioning resources to look for, they just kinda. dodge my questions while making it out like im just some kind of idiot who "doesnt get it" and in a later post, tries to make me out to be downplaying suffering by asking genuine questions.

this is about antipsychology. terfs keep your grubby fucking mitts off my post.

[materialgworl-ish]

Interrogation footage narrator: As you can see, this person that we know is guilty with the gift of hindsight is displaying (insert symptom of anxiety/neurodivergence). This means that they are a guilty, guilty criminal.

True crime fans: Wow this guy is a genius!

[sophieinwonderland]

I’m both curious and confused why so many people go out of their way to dismiss lived experiences from people who have, like, actually lived the life they’re talking about, and why such people try so hard to be the only voices heard, drowning out others.

This goes for all kinds of bigotry, I guess, not just the hate you get. They seem to get angry at the idea that they aren’t right about literally every situation.

I really do get the feeling that a lot of it comes down to ego.

Like you mention about getting angry about not being right about literally every situation. There are some people who will just cling to their beliefs, no matter how wrong they are, because they want to get to pretend to be experts in subjects that they don't understand.

This isn't just true of bigotry either. There are also a number of armchair economists you don't have the slightest clue how economies actually work, and will disregard the expertise of actual economists because they don't fit into their worldview.

And I am talking about the most basic things about economies. Like how money doesn't magically disappear into the aether whenever you spend it. There are way too many people who act like if you give money to the poor, the money will cease to exist rather than being spent and reinvested into local economies.

A lot of bigotry seems to be spreading its message just by targeting the most ignorant people in society, and convincing them that they are secret geniuses who know other people's experiences better than they do, and understand complex subjects that people spend their lives learning about better than the top experts in the field.

[viktoriakomova]

The gymternet convincing themselves that this time the emotional/social climate within an ncaa team they’re fond of will be different

[twisted-rat-king]

"disagreeing" with someone's very existence is not an opinion, it is denial of reality.

[listen-to-the-inner-walrus]

i dont know why i clicked on a video breaking down all the body-language reading bullshit when i know itll piss me off, and ill click off before it finishes so i dont break something.

[orca-iguana]

Nah thinking about how well DE does racist characters again. Ive seen some conservatives play a lot of games dealing with racism and DE is the only one where everyone hates lory man and that his annoying qualities are very much because of his racism! His whole schtick is being racist! Other characters with one schtick are loved but the racism sucks even to people who don't realize they are racist. Makes it personal you know? IDK I could go all academic into the psychology of racism but this isnt a research paper on DE so I'll just leave it here.

[penguinlover27]

Tell me that you know nothing about American history, without telling me you know nothing about American history.

To compare the horror of Jim Crow laws to transgenderism is to diminish what life under apartheid was like for African-Americans and completely dismiss the serious violations of civil and human rights carried out by bitter conservatives who were smarting after having their collective asses kicked by the Union army and their economy based on chattel slavery demolished forever. 

It also completely mischaracterizes and demonizes the experiences and existence of transfolk. One has nothing whatsoever to do with the other. This is a true “apples to armadillos” comparison. 

It is at these moments we need to pause and consider seriously the minuscule number of transfolk in our population. To hear conservatives talk about it, they must believe that there are thousands of times more transfolk than there possibly could be.

In other words, conservatives are whipping themselves into a frenzy over a complete non-issue. Again. For the thousandth time.

How about we let people decide for themselves, along with the advice and counsel of their doctors? How about we allow the people who have studied gender dysphoria, who are up-to-date on the latest research, etc. help parents determine a medical plan for their children who think that they may be trans?

If you truly care about children, conservatives, and if you truly believe that parents should have the final say on what their children are taught, etc. then how can you dare impose onto parents your own uninformed and bigoted stance against transfolk?

Let the people who are best qualified to make such decisions. That would be the parents of the child and their doctor. Can you at least pretend to be ideologically consistent?