Research Article in Medical Journal Describes Whiteness as Malignant, Parasitic-Like Condition
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A research article published last month in the
Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association called whiteness a malignant, parasitic-like condition. That description, along with other language in the article, has caused public anger, and the backlash against the author was evident on social media.
Stock images of textbooks in a library. A science journal recently published a controversial article on whiteness.
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The article, titled
On Having Whiteness, was written by Dr. Donald Moss, a white man who is a faculty member of both the New York Psychoanalytic Institute and the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis.
/ Ratso Rizzo (Dustin Hoffman) sells Joe Buck (Jon Voight) on contacting a would-be pimp in Midnight Cowboy.
In 1969, an X-rated movie filmed in Texas and New York shocked the world when it became a sensation, capturing the number three spot at the year’s box office, and eventually winning an Oscar as Best Picture. “Midnight Cowboy” stars Jon Voight as Joe Buck, a naïve Texan who leaves his home in Big Spring to seek fortune in the Big Apple as a male hustler catering to affluent women. Things don’t go as planned. The hapless Joe strikes out time and again, winding up broke, turning small-time tricks on 42nd street. Along the way, he befriends a low-life named Ratso Rizzo, played by Dustin Hoffman, fresh off his successful debut in “The Graduate.” The two form an unlikely friendship that helps them survive the harsh reality of the big city.
Why did Yale dismiss Bandy X. Lee?
In dismissing Dr. Bandy X. Lee, the university cited the Goldwater Rule, which has been shown to be scientifically untenable.
By Leonard L. Glass, Edwin B. Fisher, and Lance DodesUpdated April 14, 2021, 12:59 p.m.
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Yale University campus in New Haven, Conn.SASHA RUDENSKY/NYT
Recent news that Yale University declined to reappoint Dr. Bandy X. Lee as a professor in the psychiatry department has stirred broad concern in the mental health care community and academic world. Yaleâs disciplinary actions against Lee arose in the wake of a complaint from Alan Dershowitz, at the time an adviser to Donald Trumpâs impeachment defense. Echoing Dershowitzâs complaint, Yaleâs actions against Lee were explicitly grounded on her alleged violation of the widely disputed Goldwater Rule. The decision ultimately to terminate her appointment fueled letters of protest, including one from the three of us.