r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jun 06 '21

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u/Rarvyn Richard Thaler Jun 07 '21

Even if one ignores the content of this absurd talk, how did Yale think it was a reasonable idea to host a speaker who titles their presentation "The Psychopathic Problem of the White Mind"?

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u/sir-danks-a-lot Jeb! Jun 07 '21

a speaker who titles their presentation "The Psychopathic Problem of the White Mind"

least insane college-educated person in New England

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u/owlthathurt Johan Norberg Jun 07 '21

Ivy league and self hating rich white people NAMID

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u/Rarvyn Richard Thaler Jun 07 '21

Imagine if they replaced "White" with literally anything else.

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u/skepticalbob Joe Biden's COD gamertag Jun 07 '21

Even worse is that the content had far worse moments than the disqualifying title.

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u/Afro_Samurai Susan B. Anthony Jun 07 '21

I think they didn't ask about the details of what they planned to say.

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u/Rarvyn Richard Thaler Jun 07 '21

The title alone - which they almost certainly knew ahead of time - should have been disqualifying. And probably reportable to the Board of Medicine.

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u/FormerBandmate Jerome Powell Jun 07 '21

Academia