“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 favour.”įaced with widespread backlash, Yale School of Medicine issued a statement in which it mentioned that several faculty members had expressed concern about the content of Khilanani’s talk. Since then, conservative publications, alt-right talking heads and social media trolls have had a field day fixating on the following part of her speech: The trouble began when the audio of the talk was posted last week on the sub-stack online platform of former New York Times opinion writer and editor Bari Weiss. Khilanani told the New York Times that going by comments on the online feed, her lecture had been well-received a Yale psychologist described it as "absolutely brilliant", while a Black woman commended her for giving “voice to us as people of colour and what we go through all the time.” What did she say? It ain’t gonna happen," she said during her talk. “We are asking a demented, violent predator who thinks that they are a saint or a superhero to accept responsibility. In an online lecture on April 6, she detailed the futility of talking to White people about race, dismissing the exercise as a “waste of breath.” She recalled how her white therapist had called her anger on racism “psychotic”. What has happened?Ī Manhattan-based psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, Dr Aruna Khilanani was invited by Yale University’s School of Medicine to give a talk at a weekly forum on mental health.Ī forensic psychiatrist and psychoanalyst with her own private practice in New York, Khilanani welcomed the opportunity. Indian-origin psychiatrist’s lecture on ‘The Psychopathic Problem of the White Mind’ at an Ivy League institution has ruffled feathers and sparked outrage online, specifically over a digression in which she describes in graphic, expletive-laden detail her fantasies of shooting white people dead.
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