Further Thoughts on an old post : Is extreme bigotry a mental illness?

Stick with me here(lol):

Today I was thinking about how when I was 12 me and my cousin snuck and watched Ophan.

After we watched it, I was convinced my sister was a plant and actually a serial killer or something like that.

Mind you, I was at her birth. Soooo, all logic out the window, I guess.

That lasted the weekend and then I realized that that was an outlandish thought process.Not based in logic, only fear. (Which makes sense I do have an anxiety disorder.)

Main Point: This thought train got me thinking about bigotry and how most of it is fear based.

With education and diversity most bigoted line of thought dissipates.

There are those of course that harp on it to make a push for money or power but outside of that and the uneducated, could the extreme form be just an undiagnosed anxiety disorder?

Anxiety Disorder: This feels like it would make the most sense. They are unable to regulate their fear response to allow logic to take hold.

This goes on long enough without anyone pointing out how they are in a fear based mindset it becomes normal to live in that constant state.

Tied back into my life: I have family members on both sides that have one bigoted belief or another. As I was thinking on this, it also struck me that… all of those people also have an anxiety disorder or at-least the symptoms of it. (undiagnosed b/c they don’t believe in ‘therapy’/‘mental illnesses’).

What are your thoughts?

Edit: Original Post

Edit: grammar.