![]() The views expressed in this article are those of just the author. As such, the rhetorical framework she’s established attempts to insulate her allegations from any rebuttals – at least from White people. Khilanani here is deploying a tactic whereby she deems those who protest her accusations of racism as being “defensive,” as if to demonstrate her point. I do not want to experience myself as a racist and I’m going to turn the tables on you and say you’re the racist because you’re generalizing and that’s what a racist does.” At the same time, I’m saying how it functions psychologically when someone says “You can’t say that,” and “Not all of us,” what you’re saying subconsciously is “I’m the exception to what you just said and you made me feel like I’m a racist and I don’t experience myself that way. I have one percent left of that friend group. Do I really believe on some level that every single white person is racist? No. This idea that I’m the one generalizing is actually defensive. On the first visit, he personally speaks with each patient, and will examine them and perform any necessary diagnostic tests at the same time. In an interview, writer Katie Herzog asked Khilanani about her sweeping generalizations. Dr Khilnanis approach to personalized care is exemplified by the time he spends with each of his patients, making sure that each of his patients is treated the way he would like to be treated himself. 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. Khilanani elaborated, “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 also claimed that it’s a waste of time for people of color to talk to White people directly about racism. ![]() Later she stated, “White people are out of their minds and they have been for a long time.” 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 talk was given at the Yale School of Medicine as part of its Child Study Center Grand Rounds.Īt one point during the lecture, Khilanani said: During the speech, Khilanani made a series of racist statements and described a graphic fantasy she had about killing White people. Audio of the lecture was posted on Substack by Bari Weiss. Aruna Khilanani, a psychiatrist in New York City, gave the talk on April 6. In June, the Yale School of Medicine said that it would restrict access to the recording of Khilanani’s lecture only to those who could have attended the talk when it took place, calling it “antithetical to the values of the school.” Khilanani said that her words had been “taken out of context,” and that her prefaced remarks were “provocation as a tool for real engagement.” Jonathan Friedman, the director of free expression and education at PEN America, said in a statement that “imiting access to Khilanani’s talk runs counter to the university’s own commitment to freedom of expression, in what appears to be an unusual exception being made because of objections to the content of her remarks.In April, Yale University hosted a lecturer who gave a talk titled, “The Psychopathic Problem of the White Mind.”Īs it turns out, it was the lecturer who sounded psychopathic.ĭr. After the journalist Bari Weiss posed an audio recording of the lecture on Substack, the talk went viral, with conservative commenters called her statements racist and “evil.” ![]() ![]() Khilanani told her audience that she had fantasies of killing white people. On April 6, 2021, Khilanani delivered a livestreamed lecture at Yale University called “Psychopathic Problem of the White Mind,” which was billed as a way to contextualize “Karen” and “right not to wear masks” videos circulating on the internet. Aruna Khilanani is a Manhattan-based psychiatrist.
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