'Something is emotionally dangerous about opening up a conversation about race. Khilanani claimed she had been aiming to use 'provocation as a tool for real engagement' when she spoke of 'unloading a revolver into the head of any white person' who got in her way Khilanani, who is of Indian descent, went on to say that she did not regret her word choice.ĭr Aruna Khilanani (pictured), a New York-based psychiatrist who told a Yale panel discussion that she had fantasies of shooting white people, defended her comments over the weekend. Because if you don't, it will turn into a violent action.' 'My speaking metaphorically about my own anger was a method for people to reflect on negative feelings. 'And, if you want to hit the unconscious, you will have to feel real negative feelings.'

'Too much of the discourse on race is a dry, bland regurgitation of new vocabulary words with no work in the unconscious,' Khilanani wrote in her email.

Her comments came after she faced a massive backlash over the weekend from Yale University staff and others for the views expressed in her talk. In an email to the paper on Saturday, she said that her words had been taken out of context in an attempt to 'control the narrative' around race. A New York-based psychiatrist who told a Yale University panel discussion that she had fantasies of shooting white people has defended her comments amid fevered outrage.ĭr Aruna Khilanani, who runs her own practice in Manhattan, told the New York Times that she had been aiming to use 'provocation as a tool for real engagement' when she spoke of 'unloading a revolver into the head of any white person' who got in her way.

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