Which as @Brainspore noted… is not particularly helpful. It naturalizes it, when it’s very much a learned behavior…
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That’s exactly the problem.
Mental illness is a medical condition (or rather, a broad category of medical conditions) that affect the brain and the mind. Much like diseases that impact the rest of the body they can often be treated through medical intervention such as therapy and medication.
Bigotry is not a medical condition. It is a prejudice against a particular person or people based on their membership to a particular religious group/ethnicity/sexual orientation/gender identity/etc. There’s no medical intervention for bigotry because it’s a social problem, not a physiological problem.
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I think you’d get a lot less pushback if you used the term “social contagion.”
And, as others have noted, mental illnesses are absolutely forms of disease.
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I take your point. That has realigned my thinking somewhat.
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