This is the kind of eloquence we need more of:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9652483/Doctor-gave-Yale-talk-called-Psychopathic-Problem-White-Mind.htmlA New York-based psychiatrist who was invited by Yale University to give a talk titled Psychopathic Problem of the White Mind told the audience that she had fantasized about 'unloading a revolver into the head of any white person' who got in her way.
Dr Aruna Khilanani, who runs her own practice in Manhattan, delivered the talk virtually to medical students and faculty back in April after being invited by Yale School of Medicine's Child Study Center.
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'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. Like I did the world a f**king favor,' Khilanani said during the talk.
You would have if you really did!
She went on to say that white people feel they are being bullied when people of color bring up race and described it as a 'psychological predicament'.
'They feel that we should be thanking them for all that they have done for us. They are confused, and so are we. We keep forgetting that directly talking about race is a waste of our breath,' she said.
'We are asking a demented, violent predator who thinks that they are a saint or a superhero, to accept responsibility. It ain't gonna happen. They have five holes in their brain. It's like banging your head against a brick wall. It's just like sort of not a good idea.'
Khilanani also said speaking to white people about race was 'useless' because she says they are not at same level of conversation.
'Addressing racism assumes that white people can see and process what we are talking about. They can't. That's why they sound demented. They don't even know they have a mask on. White people think it's their actual face. We need to get to know the mask,' she said.
At various other points, she described white people as being 'out of their minds' and said that they make her 'blood boil'.
'This is the cost of talking to white people at all. The cost of your own life, as they suck you dry. There are no good apples out there. White people make my blood boil,' she said.
As I myself have said in the past, tribalism is best understood as
psychopathy towards the outgroup. I have decades of experience preaching veganism, and I know very quickly when the listener is a humanist who doesn't even believe that I am sincerely upset about humans doing whatever they want to non-humans (especially if humans benefit from it), and instead thinks I am just looking for stuff to pretend to be upset about. Trying to get through to these types is a waste of effort; they simply need to be exterminated. And it is the exact same thing going on with preaching anti-racism. Hence:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/superiority-cannot-be-taught/A person in the Dean's department contacted her a day before the talk questioning the potential impact of her presentation given it was specifically about the 'white mind'.
The email read: 'Good morning, I was surprised to see the announcement for tomorrow's grand rounds. I imagine replacing the words 'white mind' with 'Asian mind' or 'gay mind' as we work towards equity and inclusion and unity. I wonder what impact this presentation will have.'
Asked about the person's concerns and if they had a point, Khilanani said part of the 'anxiety' was around the use of the word white and 'them having to reflect on that'.
'When I'm breaking this down psychologically, what they're saying on some level is like, 'We need things to be the same. If you can say 'white,' we can say 'Asian'.
This is like trying to explain Ahimsa to an initiator of violence, and they reply: "If it is correct for you to retaliate against my initiated violence, it must be equally correct for me to retaliate against your retaliatory violence!" Again, there is no point in continuing the conversation with such types.
'Psychologically, they're actually making a false equivalence. What they're doing psychologically is obliterating the difference between white and Asian, and if you obliterate the difference there's no f**king problem here so shut up, you're the real racist. That's how it functions psychologically.'
Exactly. If hypothetically there was one tribe somewhere in the world who decided to call themselves "white" and everyone else "non-white", and another tribe somewhere else in the world who decided to call themselves "Asian" and everyone else "non-Asian", and then the two tribes encountered each other for the first time, only in this scenario would there be a genuine equivalence between "white" and "Asian".
In reality, of course, it was "whites" who invented
both terms: "white" (their ingroup) and "Asian" (a subcategory of the outgroup defined according to traits that "whites" find noticeable).