Bigotry is both virulent and contagious,causing damage and spreading from person to person, and both victims of bigotry and bigots are harmed Over a decade ago, or I wrote a piece for a psychiatric journal entitled “Is Bigotry a Mental Illness?” At the time,some psychiatrists were advocating making “pathological bigotry” or pathological bias—essentially, bias so extreme it interferes with daily function and reaches near-delusional proportions—an official
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