Are Racists Crazy?: How Prejudice and Racism Became Markers of Insanity — The System Behind the Diagnosis
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
Author: Sander L. Gilman and James M. Thomas
This episode explores Are Racists Crazy? How Prejudice and Racism Became Markers of Insanity by Sander L. Gilman and James M. Thomas as a systems-level analysis of how psychiatric authority and biopolitical governance influence behavior, belief, and institutional outcomes.
By focusing on incentive architecture rather than personalities or events, the episode shows why these systems persist — and how they connect to larger economic, political, and cultural structures.
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