Hey deserving listeners, I thought I would answer patron emails.

This first email is from an anonymous patron, they write,

I have some questions about the psychology of viral videos of people being racist and aggressive like Amy Cooper, Karens, etc. Do you think some people,

do you think some of the people in these videos could be suffering from psychosis of some kind.

It seems so illogical to be so blatantly racist and hostile when you know you're being filmed

and that the video could be posted online.

Also, can we learn anything about systems from how bystanders in the video act?

End of email.

So first off, I don't like the term Karen's.

I think it's denigrating to actual good nice people who are named Karen. I think we can just call them racist

Boomer ladies or something like I don't think we need to call them Karen's.

I don't actually like that term at all.

Because I know people named Karen and they're wonderful nice people.

And imagine if your name became associated with something as horrible as what

carons are being associated with. If you don't know it's sort of a Reddit thing.

Anyway, so then you ask, you know, could some of these people be suffering from psychosis of some kind absolutely

that this is one of the things that I will frequently think there's no way to tell sometimes

some videos seem more like a psychotic behavior, meaning that it comes from a place of psychosis.

If you have a delusional disorder of some kind, a thought disorder of some kind, it is common to have

persecutory thoughts, meaning that you think people are out to get you, and sometimes those people can be a particular race of person.

Sometimes people who have schizophrenia will believe the FBI is out to get them or aliens

are about to get them or black people are out to get them or aliens are about to get them or black people are out to get

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