The War on the West

by Douglas Murray

In her racist speech at Yale in 2021, Dr. Aruna Khilanani made many extraordinary claims. And in an interview around the same time, she made many more. Here is one of the things she told Katie Herzog: AK: People of color myself included, suffer from being positioned in the world, psychologically, and the stuff that goes with it: violence, this, that. Now, white people suffer from problems of their own mind. They suffer with trust, they suffer with intimacy, they suffer with closeness, shame, guilt, anxiety. They suffer with their minds. Don’t get me wrong, people of color are also neurotic and have their own stuff and ups and downs. But there is a fundamental issue I think that is very unique to white suffering and I think that’s their own mind. KH: What would you say is the cause of this? AK: I think it’s colonialism. That history. If you do this much lying to yourself it’s going to have an effect on your mind. There’s no way it can’t.1 That may be a characteristically extreme way of putting it. But it is not rare to see someone claim that in all of human history, there is something especially evil about white people.