Racism

I don't know why, but reading your comment almost made me think of racism as a form of obsessive compulsive disorder. I'm a hair puller, and people often describe my hair pulling and other ocd's as some sort of odd, irrational behavior driven by a need to be in control of something, in a world where we often feel we aren't in control of anything. It's obviously more complicated than that, for both OCD and racism, but it just reminded me of that. As if racists just want to control their understanding of the world, as you said, understand why it's so fucked up, and a compulsion to believe the "others" are responsible makes it seem easier to understand and gives you a source for the problems that one can attempt to control.
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