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Szasz’ reference to Jesus as a radical Jew… before discussing his own position as a rebel within psychiatry, unconsciously reveals his own ego and ambitions…

“Hey man” originated as a way to counter black men pejoratively being called “boy”? Who knew

“Black children are not allowed to be children.”

“Black humanity threatens that which holds white existential life together. Without blackness to deny as a nonexistence against which to positively project meaning… repetition of infernal white nihilistic value cycles demanding antiblack racist worlds, whiteness is left alone, irrelevant, feeling nothing more for itself than pain, suffering, exhaustion, boredom, and drives toward suicide.”

“For trauma… leads to a very different kind of fragmentation – one which is, in Freud’s own words, “devastating”, and causes identities to batten down.. towards dogma, the dangers of coercive and coercing forms of faith… it can be a consequence of historical alienation that a people, far from dispersing themselves, start digging for a history to legitimate the violence of the state.”

“Am I made to fight against being made into nothingness in the antiblack racist world only to realize that I am a nothingness in any schema beyond it? This is the final straw; I can’t go on anymore. I am in a death spin. I need to rest. There is nowhere to rest. Where can I rest? Anywhere, I don’t care. Idealism. Rationalism. Empiricism. Colonialism. Whiteness. Where is my suit and tie?”