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*whispering.* 'Miranda....'
Actually, I think I can see how they correlate there: anxiety responses often connect to territorial/in-group-out-group instincts/learnings, however people may be taught to reckon that. People who respond to any anxiety with aggression, especially in that way, will associate the various cues and learnings differently: it's probably not really curing racism so much as reducing those responses, which in racists or other kids of bigots, are bigoted.
Trust someone who knows PTSD all too well from the inside: there's a lot of potential triggers in how we see each other, and such things can reinforce themselves all too well... Just cause they aren't in a racist context (And surely don't have to be) doesn't mean that stress and trauma don't try to attach to *something.* In terms of what goes on with what this drug describes doing, it's not so much acting on what the triggers *are,* but how much people are triggered. In a sense, those sorts of triggers aren't about what they're made to be about, (except inasmuch as they *are* over time made to be about that: there's just no way I'm going to be comfortable surrounded by people doing and saying certain Christian things, for instance, especially since there are a lot of people still aggressively doing that, but even if I go to the local UU, I have to be able to absorb a certain amount of those stimuli.) For a lot of people, there are racist stresses just from how we're brought up: getting assaulted by a black guy sure didn't help my sense of 'color-blindness,' but upon looking deeper, it's like, 'No, actually, I'm freaked out by that particular take on that particular style and manner,' (Actually I know very precisely what it is, pardon if I don't go to specifics of how to freak me out,) ....but I was also pretty aware of how some around had always taught that any given stress or trauma had to be about race. (Badly-done in my case, I suppose: I've sometimes lived in places where I know I'm more threatened by *white* people I don't know. ) But it was pretty easy to see what that conditioning was supposed to do. Just like when they demonize LGBT people, it's meant to tie into recurring stresses about straight men, in particular, dominance-joking about raping each other in showers, etc. ...then you have ideologues claiming, 'This is a natural instinct to hate anyone we say are what we say are...'homosexuals!'' (Notice how they speak of us like 'forgeigners?' Same as they do for Americans of other religions or even political impulses)
Indoctrination plays a part in how people respond to things like bigoted ideologies: what those ideologies do, is attempt to *target* those kinds of stress responses in particular directions, (And not incidentally, try to create as many triggerable people as possible. ) That's why 'othering' of people and groups is both so dangerous and powerful in the immediate term, yet also can vanish so quickly in the face of real life.
That's also why some ideologues double down on trying to induce those stresses and try to demand that merely living where we can speak openly with each other is some horrible 'threat.'
There isn't a neurochemical for 'racism' per se, but what there *are* are stress-responses and associations. We can't really yank or drug away our own amygdalae, but we can choose what we choose, over very short timescales, choose to let trigger them.
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