• flying_sheep@lemmy.ml
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    15 days ago

    Yeah, but their inversion is representative of them as a person: intrusive thoughts are a reinforcement mechanism; your brain telling you what’s inappropriate. This form of Tourette’s makes you act on your (verbal) intrusive thoughts.

    This means the slurs indicate that he’s not a racist. A racist with this form of Tourette’s would not consider slurs the epitome of inappropriate behavior.