By Rudy TakalaJun 10th, 2021, 12:48 pm
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The Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association is raising eyebrows among readers for publishing an article that claimed “whiteness” is a “parasitic-like condition.”
“Whiteness is a condition one first acquires and then one has a malignant, parasitic-like condition to which ‘white’ people have a particular susceptibility,” said the article, was authored by Dr.
Donald Moss. “The condition is foundational, generating characteristic ways of being in one’s body, in one’s mind, and in one’s world.”
The author, an instructor at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute and at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis, added, “Parasitic Whiteness renders its hosts’ appetites voracious, insatiable, and perverse. These deformed appetites particularly target nonwhite peoples.”
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.