

And what you cannot excuse, is that this happened on your watch. And at worst someone gave her a platform to start a race war. At best, someone exploited a sufferer from chronic post-traumatic stress disorder who presents with paranoid ideation from an unfortunate episode. In the language to which I became accustomed in the course of my training, I find this exercise totally inappropriate. That manifesto arises out of her paranoid ideation of which I find ample history from a simple Internet engine search. Serra, as Senior Administrative Assistant, and the faculty of the Psychiatry Department either exploited a very troubled woman or else lent her a platform for a dangerous political manifesto. She titled her talk, “The Psychopathic Problem of the White Mind.” Incredibly, one Rosemary Serra booked this talk for Grand Rounds at the Yale Child Study Center. As you know, that talk took place by Zoom teleconference on 6 April 2021. I write today to express my outrage over the “Continuing Medical Educational” talk by Aruna Khilanani, M.D., M.A.

Hurlbut, B.S., M.D., Yale College Class of 1980. I suggest you choose them more wisely in the future.To: Peter Salovey, Ph.D., President, Yale University, Woodbridge Hall, New Haven, Connecticut 06520.įrom: Terry A.

It takes only simple common sense to know that publicly sharing such deranged fantasies constitutes hate speech and serves to lay a foundation for violence. K have the right to share her fantasies with her audience? Of course. She’s an arrogant psychopath who thinks murdering whites is justified.”ĭoes she think murdering whites is justified? Was she exaggerating for effect? Was she using hyperbole to graphically describe her rage? Does what she said qualify as hate speech? Was she knowingly or unwittingly inciting violence?ĭoes systemic racism exist? Most definitely. To which Minerva Doll tweeted back to JMP, “She is far worse than dramatic. This destroys any credibility she might have.” diagnosing an entire race is psychopathic. JMP responded to Minerva, “She was just being dramatic.
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Replying to her objection with Yale’s disclaimer, Minerva Doll tweeted, “Something tells me she knows she is wrong to tweet about murdering people for their skin color.” K complains about a disclaimer against violent hate speech that the Yale School of Medicine put out in which they stated “how violent my talk was.” Would you like to unload a round into my head?”Īlthough she has yet to respond, she posted a TikTok video on her Twitter account In the video recording Dr.

To express your rage? What good do you expect to come of it? I’m a white guy. I tweeted, “As a fellow MH professional, I’m trying 2 understand the purpose of you sharing your homicidal fantasy. To be fair, I reached out to the good doctor on Twitter to get her comment on the matter. K was quoted as telling the aspiring doctors that, “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. I found a June 5 piece in Newsweek magazine that did confirm the Post’s reporting. K’s speech to an audience of Yale medical students in the Post, I decided to look further for a more reliable source. Who can forget the 1983 classic, “Headless Body Found in Topless Bar?” Some consider it to be the greatest headline in New York newspaper history.Īfter reading about Dr. Support local journalism by subscribing to your Blank Slate Media community newspaper for just $35 a year. The New York Post was founded in 1801 by Alexander Hamilton, who I imagine had a vastly different vision than that of today’s publisher Rupert Murdoch. In the 1960s the Enquirer sucked readers in with stories of paranormal happenings, medical anomalies, freaks of nature, political scandal and celebrity gossip. K) violent, race-based fantasies in the New York Post, the modern-day incarnation of the old National Enquirer – a literary form of entertainment and titillation, at best. I first read about psychiatrist Aruna Khilanani’s (Dr.
