In a statement, the Yale School of Medicine expressed concern about Khilanani’s offensive words, but still posted the event online with limited access. Later, she told the New York Times that her words had been taken out of context to “control the narrative.” She said her lecture had “used provocation as a tool for real engagement.” Khilanani, a New York City-based psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, said her remarks were in response to the “intense rage and futility” people of color purportedly feel when talking to white people about racism. “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. “Nothing makes me angrier than a white person who tells me not to be angry, because they have not seen real anger yet,” said Khilanani, according to the New York Post. The lecture was entitled “The Psychopathic Problem of the White Mind.” Aruna Khilanani’s talk at Yale School of Medicine’s Child Study Center were shocking and appalling. While Butler’s recent comments about evangelicals were deemed offensive and racist, the sound bites that emerged from Dr. Butler, a tenured professor, was not fired or disciplined. More importantly, he is carrying a gun and stalking young black men.” Her comments attracted national media attention and an uproar on Twitter deeming Butler a racist and calling for Penn to fire her, according to the Daily Pennsylvanian. “As a matter of fact, I think he’s a white racist god with a problem. In fact, sometimes, God is not for us,” she wrote. In 2013, she wrote an op-ed for Religious Dispatch in the wake of the not-guilty verdict of George Zimmerman, who was accused of murdering Trayvon Martin. This is not the first time Butler has come under fire for controversial comments. “Our provost and the Dean of the College looked into this and concluded that while the panel raised ideas that could certainly be deemed controversial, it was an entirely appropriate academic endeavor and did not violate any university policy,” UVA spokesperson Brian Coy told The College Fix. “Members of UVA Department of Religious Studies faculty have unloaded on white evangelicals in as wide-ranging and comprehensive an example of collegial vitriol as you will ever watch or read,” wrote James Sherlock in a column on Bacon’s Rebellion, a public policy blog.ĭespite Sherlock’s threat to file formal hate speech complaints, administrators at the University of Virginia decided the issue no longer needs further review. In the aftermath, a University of Virginia alumnus called the panelist comments “school-sponsored hate speech.”
“They are part and parcel of the reason why we cannot move forward…their racism, their sexism, their homophobia, their lack of belief in science, lack of belief and common sense may end up killing us all.”Īt the same seminar, University of Virginia professor Larycia Hawkins labelled evangelical Christians as “white supremacists.” “If evangelicals don’t change, they pose an existential crisis to us all,” Butler said, according to. This spring, two academic seminars with ties to Ivy League universities came under fire for incendiary comments regarding race. A University of Pennsylvania professor said white evangelicals are racists who “may end up killing us all,” while a guest lecturer at the Yale School of Medicine expressed frustration with the national dialogue by saying she had fantasies about shooting white people.Īnthea Butler, associate professor of Religious Studies and Graduate Chair in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, was a panelist at a spring seminar hosted by the University of Virginia, “White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America.” Penn Professor, Yale Lecturer Make Shocking Statements By Tom Campisi, Managing Editor
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