Racist individuals reliably exhibit recognizable, patterned psychopathologies

Evidence

Secondly you look at the more explicit or ideal typical forms of racist behavior and belief and you try to find there evidence for the operation of the structures which you have already identified in clinical practice as examples of individual psychopathology. And lo and behold you do indeed find that individuals with pronounced or extreme racist views, or who carry out violent racial attacks, exhibit a common pattern of psychopathology. Some of them suffer from contagion phobias, others get anxiety attacks if they are in a lift with a black person; quite a few white men exhibit deeply ambivalent or envious feelings about what they see as the superior sexual potency or license enjoyed by black men; others entertain sexual fantasies of a sadistic kind towards black women; a lot of them of them project the bad part of themselves into their preferred racial hate object, and they indulge in a magical or primary process thinking in scapegoating ethnic minorities and blaming them for all manner of social ills. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1300

Categorization

• SEED: The confirmation-bias critique — finding what your clinical categories already predicted — is a seed for an essay on how pseudo-scientific theories manufacture their own evidence.
• CANDY: The catalogue of racist psychopathologies — lift anxiety, sexual envy of black men, magical scapegoating — is grimly quotable.