@TheCobbler,
Can a racist be rehabilitated?
A racist can stop "using" others to elevate this euphoric feeling (high) of superiority, but the disease will lie dormant and continue to progress within.
It is not like a boil or appendix that can be removed and totally cured. It is a dormant condition that remains within waiting for an opportunistic moment to rear its ugly head and run menace again and again.
Racists can be in recovery but they will always innately have the disease which they could be potentially afflicted with from time to time.
They will have episodes of temptation to tell someone to, "Speak English!" or "Go back to your own country!"...
They will need to rid their lives of other racists [and stop going to the GOP convention (bar)].
These measures along with abstinence can lead to a normal life, as long as the temptation to "use" others for stepping stones to the ego is not allowed to materialize into full-blown relapse.
A person needs to want to change first, they need to want to become a part of the "normal" social fabric of harmonious diversity.
They need to realize that they alone are the reason for their outcast, not others. A racist's self-imposed isolation is not due to superiority, but inferiority.
They need to reverse erroneous thinking... It is not a high IQ that fosters racism, it is stupidity. Then love, rather than the fear of society may help them to put down their guns and become part of a healthy community of caring and kind individuals, who don't need hate speech and insult to sustain one's existence.
This militant growth is a sexualized ideology mechanism to protect the guilt and inner conflict of wrong thinking. Perhaps stemming back to failure with the opposite (or same) sex.
Though, racism (sexism) was the reason for this failure and it will continue to foster failure and fanaticism.
Only unity and love for others can cure this kind of depleted mental character. Honesty and values that include others, their feelings and value within the internal equation and dialogue of respect.
It seems like a simple answer, that love cures so many ills. Love of self, love of others and love of the truth...
Hate of self, hate of others and disregard for the truth certainly cannot be the way to greatness. Hate and deception does not really seem like a sound or sane plan made by someone with a high IQ either. Eventually the truth has a way of catching up with a person, leading to disastrous consequences. What gains are achieved by a lie are erased and a person is set back, debased and demoralized, a product of their own undoing.
Rehabilitation will require rigorous honesty, fake sentiments and reality seem to be at the very heart of the self-deception regarding the disease of racism. Disillusion, aggrandizement, superiority complexes are a sure sign of a sick and diseased case of low self-esteem.
It takes a truly superior mind and being that can rise above this disgraceful disease of racism, conquer it and stand triumphantly above it in victorious, love-based living.
