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Posted on 09/03/2021 2:27:14 PM PDT by blam
While Johnny Mandel sang “suicide is painless,” it is apparently also ethical. Duquesne University Psychology professor Derek Hook is under fire this week after arguing in class that white people may find that the ethical option for the dismantling of white culture is suicide. As will likely come as little surprise to many on this blog, I oppose calls for Hook’s termination as a matter of academic freedom.
In a class to Baltimore-based American Association for Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work in June available on Twitter, Hook used a quote by South African philosophy professor, Terblanche Delport, that “White people should commit suicide as an ethical act.” Delport was discussing the movement for equality in South Africa. Delport stated:
“If the goal is to dismantle white supremacy, and white supremacy is white culture … then the goal has to be to dismantle white culture and ultimately white people themselves. The total integration into Africa by white people will also automatically then mean the death of white people as white as a concept would not exist anymore.”
Hook stated “there was something ethical in Delport’s statements” since, as Delport argued, “The only way then for white people to become part of Africa is to not exist as white people anymore.” Hook then added I want to suggest that psychoanalytically we could even make the argument that there was something ethical in Delport’s statements.” While noting that Delport wanted to stir up passions as a “fighter academic,” “nevertheless, I want to make the argument that there is some kind of ethical dimension to his, his provocations.”
Hook praised Delport taking “his White audience to the threshold of a type of symbolic extinction … he took them to a proposed end of whiteness” and “offered his White audience the opportunity to” contemplate “the castration of whiteness.”
The University has insisted that Hook did not endorse a call for white suicide and is being misrepresented in his use of the material.
The controversy in my view is a classic fight over academic freedom. Hook was introducing a radical and controversial theory in discussing the underlying issues. Professors often try to provoke emotions in classes, even pushing students into uncomfortable positions on the extremes of social or political issues. Many of us try to force students out of their comfort zones to get them to defend core principles or force them to consider opposing views.
Professors need to be able to challenge and even provoke their students without fear of being terminated or suspended. My concern is the lack of consistency in the application of academic freedom and free speech principles, including a recent case at St. Joseph’s University. It is doubtful that the university would be equally supportive if Hook discussed the value of other races committing suicide, even as a hypothetical.
Notably, Pennsylvania is a state that makes even the encouragement of suicide a crime under 18 U.S.C. 2505:
(a) Causing suicide as criminal homicide.–A person may be convicted of criminal homicide for causing another to commit suicide only if he intentionally causes such suicide by force, duress or deception.
(b) Aiding or soliciting suicide as an independent offense.–A person who intentionally aids or solicits another to commit suicide is guilty of a felony of the second degree if his conduct causes such suicide or an attempted suicide, and otherwise of a misdemeanor of the second degree.
Such laws often raise free speech issues, particularly for those who believe suicide is a basic human right.
Maybe guilt ridden White wokers should consider ending it all so the rest of us won’t have to put up with their self righteous whining. It’ll be like thinning the herd. Suicide is the sincerest form of self criticism. Just sayin’
Bald...how much you want to bet there is a man-bun on the back of his head?
Don’t hate whites.
Hate the person who gave you that awful name.
“Sue” would have been a lot better in your case.
No doubt. But I prefer not to visualize that.
When I was in college 30 years ago, even the most ardent and committed liberal, communist, queer or otherwise leftist professor had the decency to be well groomed and professionally dressed. Today they all look like characters from a dystopian movie. Very disturbing.
Haiti spent a good deal of their post independence months hunting down and eradicating white people. How did that work out for them?
Official BS damage control from the university
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Recently I learned of a prank about “grievance studies” where fake papers were submitted for publication about ridiculous topics related to various grievances. Many of the fake studies were published or approved for publication.
see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grievance_studies_affair for a summary but it illustrated how these universities have been corrupted in these programs.
And the 3 who pulled this hoax wrote a book about it; here is the Amazon link.
https://www.amazon.com/Cynical-Theories-Scholarship-Everything-Identity_and/dp/1634312023/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8
I didn’t know being fat qualified as a handicap.
Most of those people look like they could use the exercise of walking around the store.
“I like big butts and I can’t deny...”
If it wasn’t for Christian white Republican men all those disgruntled yappy blacks would still be slaves, so STFU unless you are showing appreciation.
Suicide used to be the one unforgivable sin in Catholocism. Now it's often chalked up to "mental illness."
Here goes another attempt:
“I like big butts and I can’t deny...”
They barely flush now thanks to the eco-Nazis.
That is not a bad idea; however, take it one step further: white people should tell all non-white races, especially blacks to go one day without using anything invented by, improved upon, or developed by, white people.
Then stand back and watch the fun.
The democrat taliban party demands the right to murder you. See my tagline.
He’s as white as can be. Self-loathing, white liberals are the lowest form of life on this earth.
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