![]() “That’s how it functions psychologically. “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. “Psychologically, they’re actually making a false equivalence. “If you can say ‘white,’ we can say ‘Asian’. She said: “When I’m breaking this down psychologically, what they’re saying on some level is like, ‘We need things to be the same. On the concerns, Dr Khilanani said part of the “anxiety” was around the use of the word white and “them having to reflect on that”. I didn’t hear any concerns prior to that.”Ī day before the talk, a person in the Dean’s department contacted her, questioning the potential impact of her presentation. This is what I think because I only got the concerns as relayed to me from the dean right before. “And then I think, and I’m not sure about this, maybe they only put the announcement out the day before. She said Yale did not respond or raise concerns about her talk for a “long period of time”.ĭr Khilanani said: “I was kind of surprised because usually, people want to know a lot of details. In an interview, Dr Khilanani said she gave Yale the name of her talk after being invited. Unnamed and untitled like the privilege it protects.” Aruna Khilanani took to TikTok last week in an effort to get Yale to publicly share a virtual talk she gave at the invitation of the Ivy League university entitled The Psychopathic Problem of the White. One video caption read: “My talk at Yale Child Study Center was just released internally. #ARUNA KHILANANI TIKTOK SERIES#In a series of TikTok videos, she claims the university has not included the name of the talk or that she delivered it. She now says Yale is trying to suppress her by not releasing the footage of her talk publicly. White people make my blood boil.”Īfter the talk, Yale only made it available to students and faculty with a warning that it contained “profanity and imagery for violence”.ĭr Khilanani says it was only released internally after some people called for it to be released. The cost of your own life, as they suck you dry. “This is the cost of talking to white people at all. She also said white people were “out of their minds” and that they make her “blood boil”. “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.”ĭr Khilanani also said speaking to white people about race was “useless” because they are not at the same 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. We keep forgetting that directly talking about race is a waste of our breath. ![]()
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