A professor at a Catholic college in Pennsylvania has found himself in hot water this week after he gave a presentation stating that white people committing suicide can be an "ethical act."
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"White people should commit suicide as an ethical act," read a quote from a presentation conducted by Duquesne University psychology professor Derek Hook.
Professor of Psychology at Duquesne University Derek Hook, defends the quote “white people should commit suicide as an ethical act” as an “opportunity” to “castrate whiteness”.
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In a lecture given to the Baltimore-based American Association for Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work back in June, Hook quoted Terblanche Delport, a professor of philosophy from South Africa who has written about white people committing suicide in that nation. Hook then argued that "there was something ethical in Delport’s statements."
"The reality [in South Africa] is that most white people spend their whole lives only engaging black people in subservient positions …. My question is then how can a person not be racist if that’s the way they live their lives? The only way then for white people to become part of Africa is to not exist as white people anymore," Hook said as he quoted Delport, according to Fox News.
The quote went on to add:
"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 responded to this quote by saying, "I want to suggest that psychoanalytically we could even make the argument that there was something ethical in Delport’s statements."
While Hook said that Delport is a "fighter academic" who may have dramatized some of his comments, he also argued that "nevertheless, I want to make the argument that there is some kind of ethical dimension to his, his provocations."
"I think that Delport took his White audience to the threshold of a type of symbolic extinction … he took them to a proposed end of whiteness," Hook continued, going on to say that the South African professor "offered his White audience the opportunity to" contemplate "the castration of whiteness."
Though there has been mass outrage over Hook's racist comments on social media, Duquesne University has stood by him, saying that the professor "did not make a statement advocating anything like what was suggested."
"In fact, he said that the statement in question was ‘crazy’," the statement added. "Professor Hook also said that the provocateur who used this example was wrong in suggesting any such radical action. The words being circulated were simply lifted out of context to distort the actual comments. Saying that Professor Hook called for anything like the words in question is false."
"While some of the content in the recording certainly contained troubling elements if taken alone, the full discussion only references the work of another person (Terblanche Delport, as the slides indicate) and the extreme proposition in the context of post-Apartheid South Africa," the school added. "Duquesne University is a Catholic institution that condemns any suggestion that suicide is to be advocated or endorsed in any form."
Can you imagine if a college professor had said that black people committing suicide can be an ethical act? All hell would break loose, and the professor in question would immediately be fired and blacklisted by society forever. Since Hook said this about white people, however, he's facing virtually no consequences for his blatant racism.
The hypocrisy of the left never ceases to amaze.
This piece was written by James Samson on September 2, 2021. It originally appeared in RedVoiceMedia.com and is used by permission.
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