We ultimately decided to post the video with access limited to those who could have attended the talk- the members of the Yale community.” The Yale School of Medicine released a statement calling the contents of the talk “antithetical to the values of the school.” The statement went on, “In deciding whether to post the video, we weighed our grave concern about the extreme hostility, imagery of violence, and profanity expressed by the speaker against our commitment to freedom of expression. In the face of growing controversy, the university has worked to distance itself from the speech. She spoke gleefully about how she cut all white people out of her life: “I took some actions… I systematically white-ghosted most of my white friends, and I got rid of the couple white BIPOCs that snuck in my crew, too.” White people think it’s their actual face. They don’t even know they have a mask on.
Addressing racism assumes that white people can see and process what we are talking about. It’s just like sort of not a good idea.”Īgain, “We need to remember that directly talking about race to white people is useless, because they are at the wrong level of conversation. It’s like banging your head against a brick wall. We are asking a demented, violent predator who thinks that they are a saint or a superhero, to accept responsibility. She spoke repeatedly about the futility of speaking to white people about race: “White people are out of their minds, and they have been for a long time… We keep forgetting that directly talking about race is a waste of our breath. White people make my blood boil.” She went on, “I had fantasies of unloading a revolver into the head of any white person that got in my way, burying their body, and wiping my bloody hands as I walked away relatively guiltless with a bounce in my step. “The cost of your own life, as they suck you dry. “This is the cost of talking to white people at all,” she declared. Khilanani identified the root cause of racism as the “white mind.”
The poster announcing the event listed several “learning objectives,” among which were: “Set up white people’s absence of empathy towards black rage as a problem” and “Understand how white people are psychologically dependent on black rage.” The April 6 online lecture, “The Psychopathic Problem of the White Mind,” was presented by the Yale School of Medicine’s Child Study Center and delivered by Dr. A New York psychiatrist invited to give a lecture at Yale University spoke about her fantasies of murdering white people, while insisting that racism is an inherent part of “whiteness.” University officials have since restricted public access to the talk while distancing themselves from the comments in an effort to downplay their role in promoting these backward conceptions.
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