Pathologizing Gentile Group Allegiances

I came across that phrase while doing some research on a reference cited in the book, Adolf Hitler: His Family, Childhood, and Youth. The reference cited was entitled Anti-Semitism and Emotional Disorder: A Psychoanalytic Interpretation. What both of those titles mean is that if a white person shows a preference for the company of his own race, the System is going to find a way to attribute that preference to mental illness (I think that's what they mean by "pathologization.") Scary, isn't it?

-Gayle

Claiming that political dissidents are "mentally ill" is an old left-wing trick, notably in the old Soviet Union where critics of Communism were confined in mental institutions for "treatment." It has also been used against American dissidents in the past, notably Ezra Pound. - HAC