I’ve been re-reading Douglas Murray’s wonderful book The War on the West and there’s a particular example, discussed by Murray, that I’ve been wanting to comment on. You can find a great breakdown of what happened on The Free Press, written by Katie Herzog.
The basic background is this. I thought Harvard were getting a bit too much stick for being too pro-Gay, so I thought I’d even things up a little by seeing what Yale think. In 2021 the New York psychiatrist Dr Aruna Khilanani gave a talk at the Yale School of Medicine’s Child Study Centre.
The talk was a cracker, delivered by someone who is clearly crackers, and directed entirely against crackers.
The title of the talk was “The Psychopathic Problem of the White Mind” and there are no prizes for guessing what it might have been about. Yes, my fellow crackers, we’re all just fucking nuts. Can’t help it coz we is white, you see.
In my case, it might be true. I probably am fucking nuts - although I don’t think I’m psychopathic nuts.
Donning my ceremonial robes of patriarchy, raising the standard of sexism, and glorying in my toxic masculinity, I might suggest that Dr Kill-a-Nanny is quite attractive.
I mean, most hetero guys might jump at the chance to be psychoanalyzed by this good-looking shrink.
It’s not clear where she’s based, ethnically speaking. Could be a cracker - but more likely to be Latinx, or from Greexe, or from the Indianx sub-continent, perhaps. She might even be Turkixh.
Looks, as they say, can be deceiving.
And can’t they just?
Underneath that fine exterior lurks a roiling mass of crazy. But she started off learning CRT at university before venturing into helping people with their mental health problems, so I guess it’s not entirely her fault.
Don’t take my word for it - we can let Dr Scary speak for herself. This quote is, as they say, the money shot:
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. Like I did the world a fucking favour
You have to kind of wonder what happens when you go for treatment for your mental health issues only to find that your therapist is more of a basket-case than you are.
She does, however, mis-attribute things:
This is the cost of talking to white people at all. The cost of your own life, as they suck you dry. There are no good apples out there. White people make my blood boil.
No, that’s climate change, love. We might be the walking white of evil incarnate, but we don’t have that particular power.
How far are we away, do you think, from “white genocide” territory here?
If a student said something similar (plagiarism?) what would Yale’s policy on campus speech have to say about it?
Dunno, don’t care. We all know the only demographic you’re allowed, and even encouraged, to say awful things about.
In the masturbatory mixed-up madness that is CRT, Jews are also classed as “white”, being all oppresseraterative and occupieralizers and indulging in colonialification. So you can say bad stuff about them as you chant “From the river to the sea, we’ll all go wibbledy-wobbly-bibbledy-bobbly-zing-throck-wheeeeeeee!”
Or something else that makes about as much sense as you Queer your way into freedom for Palestine.
You might have noticed that I have some difficulty taking all of this woke bollocks seriously. It’s beyond parody, and it’s a never-ending source of astonishment to me that a lot of people do take it all seriously.
We can’t take the content seriously, of course, but we should take the effect of it seriously. It’s an utterly corrosive concoction of cretinism wrapped up in the fraudulent cloak of compassion and kindness.
One example provided by Murray in The War on the West serves as a good example of the rot, but there are many, many, others we could choose from. Some sociologist writing a piece as part of the 1619 project - that wonderful work of historical fiction - actually wrote this (amongst other equally deranged things)
When a mid-level manager spends an afternoon filling in rows and columns on an Excel spreadsheet they are repeating business procedures whose roots twist back to slave-labour camps
This is the problem, see. It’s not so much that some buffoon writes this egregious drivel, it’s that a whole other bunch of utterly vacuous tits go “Wow! That’s a brilliant analysis”.
This is how you can end up with some academic mediocrity as president of Harvard; the prattish gets mistaken for the profound. What’s worse, these clueless morons can’t even tell the difference between the two.
These weeds of wokeness have grown because the ground has been fertilized by a campaign of shame conducted over many years. There is one demographic, above all others, that is taught to be ashamed of itself and of its history.
To phrase it in a way Dr Genocidal-Maniac might put it
there ain’t no shame like cracker-shame
Surely, Rigger me old chum, you’re exaggerating? We’ll let Dr Freddy-Kruger speak again. When asked about how the effects of colonialism have affected white people she replied:
It’s going to be hard for me to give you a one sentence soundbite on this but I would say, a high level of guilt. I’ve never seen anything like this before. Other than in white people not eating bread, an incredible level of shame
She explains further how bread exemplifies white shame
White people have an intense level of guilt. I have never seen a level of guilt that I see among white people. I mean, white people don't eat bread. Think about that. There have been wars all over the world over grains and bread and only here, white people are depriving themselves. Think about that shit. Everyone has this gluten allergy and you're like, what the fuck is a gluten allergy? That's a psychosomatic symptom. If you actually talk to a GI doctor, they're going to say, “Well, there’s Celiac and there's everything else” with a wink, and you know what the “everything else” is. It’s all the guilty gluten people.
As you read this, you begin to realize that Dr Bats-in-the Belfry might just be several crackers and two slices of Edam short of a cheeseboard.
She is right about the sense of guilt, though. We’re taught (these days) from a very early age, and continually bombarded with, this vision of “white” history as being something to be ashamed of, and that, of all the peoples in this world, white people are uniquely deserving of condemnation.
Dr Nutcracker might be an extreme example, but this kind of prattish and anti-profound thinking has permeated many people to a greater or lesser extent.
It isn’t so much the content of woke that needs to be addressed - that’s almost childishly easy anyway because it’s so ineffably stupid most of it - no, it’s the woke mindset that needs to be treated. Preferably using a different psychiatrist than Dr Bonkers.
Feeling continually ashamed, or guilty, is not at all healthy. Perfectly nice, decent, and lovely people are taught to walk around with this cloud of shame above pissing down historical tears on their heads. It’s no wonder we’re having a societal problem with mental health issues - on top of the derangement that social media can bring about.
These people have done nothing wrong.
But they’re being made to feel as if they’re Hannibal Lecter - and because they’re actually quite nice, decent, and lovely people they fall for it.
Great-great-great-great-great Uncle Titface might have massacred several villages of people of non-white hue in the past as he indulged in his colonial rampage, but YOU didn’t.
Feeling ashamed of the things we’ve done wrong is healthy - provided there’s a path to redemption. That sense of shame for our past failings is what helps us to become better people in the here and now and in the future. But if we can’t get past our past shame and distinguish between the then and now - we’re going to fall apart very quickly.
There is no “path to redemption” for white people in the woke vacuum that we euphemistically call a mind. And this is an inculcated sense of shame for things they haven’t even done. There is no place in the their woke world for what the woke call “whiteness” - which is another of those wonderfully racist words that is not actionable, but encouraged.
What the hell is “whiteness”? Or “blackness”, for that matter?
Coca-Cola, for example, ran a training programme for their employees aimed at helping them to become “less white”. I assume using blackface wasn’t one of the suggested methods by which this blissful state of being could be achieved.
But you know the kind of people who don’t feel shame? Psychopaths.
You think any of the aggressive ‘woke’ feel guilty for, or ashamed of, their behaviour?
The aggressive wing of the ‘woke’ cult terrorize the decent, lovely people wing into perpetually feeling ashamed of themselves.
This needs to stop. Somehow, we need to recover our sense of societal self-respect, because without it we’re doomed. Doomed to a future where the psychopathic woke ‘mind’ holds sway.
I’ll let Dr Cuckoo have the last word. Here she implies that everything whitey has ever done is “stolen” from others. Is it any wonder we’re suffering from a society-wide lack of self-respect?
You haven’t discovered shit! But this idea is everywhere. Look at food bloggers who are like, “I invented something new,” and you're like, “Oh so you added flaky salt. You added a twig of parsley.” Everything else is stolen.
I’m off to steal some more ideas from non crackers.
Another great article! My HS junior grandson is currently visiting universities for his engineering degree. Living in a small NYS town, so far he’s kept distanced from the really crazy wokeness. (We keep abreast of his school). Every time I read an article like this, I will forward to him. As a grandma who has, over the years, donated plenty to his college fund, I won’t encourage attendance to Yale/Harvard or similar school. But wokeness has crept into our educational system, so it’s up to us “crackers” to educate our children. (PS: Thanks for the tip on Douglas Murray’s book!)
The only cracker shame that matters is when you get out the cheese after hosting a meal and you don’t offer your white friends Jacobs crackers... the shame of offering Tescos own crackers is the very definition of cracker shame. Mind you, you’d have to be utterly shameless if you offered Liddles water biscuits. Our American friends may not know the brand Jacobs.. but you can substitute with your own brand of favourite cracker. I don’t eat anything but meat these days, and now live in the land of the free... so I’ve no idea what brand of cracker is good here in Hollywood... maybe Gelsons own. Jacobs Cream Crackers should and will be banned for their white supremacist past, see their shameless white Irish roots below.
Jacob's - Wikipedia
The originator of the Jacob's brand name was the small biscuit bakery, W. & R. Jacob, founded in 1851 in Bridge Street, Waterford, Ireland, by William Beale Jacob and his brother Robert. It later moved to Bishop Street in Dublin, Ireland, with a factory in Peter's Row. I wonder what their diversity policy was? Crackers.......there's a clue.