05/26/2024
Andrew Hartz is a “clinical psychologist and the founder and president of the Open Therapy Institute.”
Left-leaning researchers have spent decades focusing on racial bias as a contributing factor to mental illness, but their research has ignored bias and belligerence directed toward whites.
Our culture is uncomfortable talking about antiwhite aggression. Some of this is understandable. In the public mind, concerns about anti-white hate are linked with white nationalism and other forms of extremism. But all forms of racial hatred are abhorrent, and confronting anti-white hate doesn’t imply hostility toward any other racial group.
Antiwhite behavior manifests in many ways — violent attacks (including assault and rape) motivated by racial animus, bullying at school, insults, harassment, discrimination, and racially demeaning trainings at the workplace. Other examples include university courses that malign whites, and sometimes the news media’s rush to judge white people accused of racism, without sufficient evidence.
The link on “judge white people“ is to a story about the Nick Sandmann/Covington Catholic case in which Sandmann was accused of facecrime by smirking at an Indian beating a drum in front of his face.
Hartz goes on:
My experience as a therapist tells me that these are not isolated anecdotes. A few years ago, I provided therapy for a young heterosexual white man that focused on anxiety, anger, and relationship issues. We talked about his family history and his current life. Then, more than a year into the treatment, he told me that he had experienced pervasive racially charged bullying at both his elementary school and his high school. The bullying included insults, harassment, and some fights. Much of it was explicitly racial, including comments like “white faggot” and “white bitch.” It’s unclear why no one at the schools did anything. He said that he had held back from telling me about it in part because he worried that I would frame him as privileged or “just not get it” — reactions he had experienced in the past from his friends.
One of the enraging things about this phenomenon is that if you’re angry at anti-white racial insults, it’s called “white fragility.“
An avalanche of feelings emerged. He had grown so used to keeping this experience buried that he became numb to it. Over time, it also became clear that he was in some ways more upset at the current cultural attitudes about race than about the bullying he had endured. He saw traces of his experience with bullying in current cultural dynamics: the racially insulting language like “toxic whiteness,” and the inability of the culture to express concern for white people who were attacked. As we talked, he started to formulate his experience and find his voice. I could see him become more relaxed, more reflective, more open, authentic, and assertive.
Mental Health’s Blind Spot — Decades of research on the effects of racial bias on mental illness have systematically ignored antiwhite hatred, by Andrew Hartz, City Journal, May 24 2024
It’s kind of amazing that this direct condemnation of anti-white hate is coming in City Journal. While they’ve always been good on black crime issues, et cetera, they generally don’t get into what you might call “racial consciousness.“ But nowadays, everyone has to. You might not be interested in racial consciousness, but racial consciousness is interested in you.
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