Yale’s Child Study Center Lecture: The Psychopathic Problem of the White Mind
Yale, an institution that prides itself on intellectual rigor and ethical responsibility, failed spectacularly when it gave Dr. Aruna Khilanani a platform to openly fantasize about killing people based on their skin color. This was not an academic discussion. This was not thought-provoking debate. This was violent rhetoric, and Yale, one of America’s most prestigious institutions, let it happen.
Her lecture, titled “The Psychopathic Problem of the White Mind,” was delivered at Yale’s Child Study Center, a place dedicated to the mental and emotional well-being of children. Instead of insight or scholarship, Khilanani served up a venomous fantasy of racial violence that should have no place in any academic setting, let alone one focused on kids.
She openly fantasized about “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.” This wasn’t a fleeting remark or a misunderstood metaphor—it was a deliberate, chilling vision of racially motivated murder.
Dr. Aruna Khilanani’s lecture didn’t just cross into hateful territory; it dove headfirst into explicit, violent fantasies about killing people based on their race. Her words were delivered in April 2021 and are extremely relative today with Trump’s funding cuts hitting Ivy League institutions.
Yale is no longer just complicit in ideological extremism—it has actively enabled it. When a professor openly fantasizes about murdering people based on their skin color, that is not free speech. That is not academic debate. That is a grotesque, violent call to action.
But now, the unchecked privilege of shielding dangerous voices may finally carry a price. With Trump’s funding cuts targeting Ivy League institutions, places like Yale face a reckoning they can no longer afford to ignore.
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Taxpayer dollars should not bankroll institutions that give platforms to calls for racial violence. If Yale refuses to uphold even the most basic moral standards, it should not expect financial immunity.