Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor - A Cure for Racism?
Aired: 2021-02-18
Duration: 07:14


=== Medicalizing Racism (07:09) ===

[00:00:04]  Hello, I'm Jared Taylor with American Renaissance.
[00:00:08]  The Soviet Union is gone, but it's not forgotten.
[00:00:11]  I've been thinking about the way it treated political dissidents in the 1960s and 70s.
[00:00:17]  Those were people who disagreed with official dogma, people who refused to believe that the Soviet Union was paradise.
[00:00:25]  Sometimes they were treated as criminals and shot or just sent to labor camps, but some were treated as if they had a mental illness.
[00:00:33]  You see, the theory was, Marxism was so self-evidently true that you had to be insane not to believe in the Soviet system.
[00:00:43]  The United States has an official dogma, just like the Soviet Union.
[00:00:48]  If you think race is a biological reality, if you think diversity is a weakness, if you prefer a community or a nation of whites, then you're a racist.
[00:00:59]  You're a dissident.
[00:01:01]  And just like in the Soviet Union, some people think you have a mental illness.
[00:01:07]  Every one of the Democrats who want to be president will tell you racism is just about the worst problem the country faces.
[00:01:15]  They'd love to cure this disease.
[00:01:18]  This Slate article asks, is racism a disease?
[00:01:22]  It fantasizes about a pill that a doctor could use to cure you.
[00:01:27]  Here is an article in a SAGE publication called Medicalizing Racism.
[00:01:33]  It notes that psychologists have names of this condition, such as intolerant personality disorder or pathological bias.
[00:01:42]  The Soviets had a name for the mental illness of their dissidents.
[00:01:46]  They called it sluggish schizophrenia.
[00:01:49]  Naming it makes it real, right?
[00:01:52]  On the next page of the same article, a doctor is handing out a prescription to cure racism.
[00:01:58]  Well, science marches on.
[00:02:01]  Some people think the drug propanolol can make you less suspicious of people of other races.
[00:02:06]  Less racist.
[00:02:08]  Propanolol is used to treat high blood pressure and anxiety and is thought to block parts of the nervous system that deal with external threats.
[00:02:17]  Researchers at Oxford claim that you feed people this stuff.
[00:02:21]  They score lower on a test that's supposed to measure racism.
[00:02:26]  Sylvia Terbeck, who wrote this up in the journal Psychopharmacology, claimed that her findings were, in her words, of considerable ethical interest.
[00:02:37]  The Daily Beast was excited.
[00:02:39]  Can the heart and blood pressure pill Topanolol cure racism?
[00:02:45]  And here's another headline for you.
[00:02:47]  Disabling parts of the brain with magnets can weaken faith in God and change attitudes to migrants, study finds.
[00:02:56]  That's a twofer for the liberals.
[00:02:59]  The trick was to send strong magnetic currents right through the skull to a part of the brain called the posterior medial frontal cortex, the PMFC as it's known to its friends.
[00:03:13]  It decides to respond to threats.
[00:03:17]  Well, if the PMFC has been disabled, you ignore the threat.
[00:03:22]  In this"what me worry" state of mind, you believe less strongly in God and don't care about outsiders.
[00:03:30]  As the scientists explained in a paper, they: By down-regulating PMFC activity via transcranial magnetic stimulation,
[00:03:51]  the results provide the first evidence that group prejudice and religious beliefs are susceptible to targeted neuromodulation.
[00:04:01]  Are you ready for a little neuromodulation?
[00:04:04]  Earlier this year, Salon published an article called Racism on the Brain.
[00:04:10]  A neuroscientist explains how the world moved right.
[00:04:15]  Nice photo, don't you think?
[00:04:17]  Salon wanted to know whether there are, and I quote, drugs that could be used to medicate and otherwise help malignant racists.
[00:04:25]  The neuroscientist, someone named Bobby Azarian, says it's too early in our understanding of the brain to try a pharmacological treatment for racism.
[00:04:37]  So, we're not quite there.
[00:04:38]  Not yet, anyway.
[00:04:40]  And, of course, you don't actually have to do anything to be racist.
[00:04:45]  All it takes is a few words to prove you have intolerant personality disorder.
[00:04:51]  Google could track what you do online and decide that you're a racist.
[00:04:56]  Remember the stories about Google figuring out that women were pregnant before they knew it themselves?
[00:05:02]  Even lefties are worried about some of this stuff.
[00:05:06]  Marxist Slavoj Zizek.
[00:05:08]  is one of the world's most famous philosophers.
[00:05:11]  He wants to know who will control merged human-AI digital space.
[00:05:17]  He says, never forget that attempts to control us always begin like this.
[00:05:22]  We will be automatically checked up, controlled for our health, but also for our purchases, for our political opinions, for our voting, and so on.
[00:05:30]  A computer will literally know us better than we know ourselves.
[00:05:35]  Well, lefties already think they know who's a racist.
[00:05:39]  With artificial intelligence, nobody could hide.
[00:05:42]  And when they catch bad white people, why not forcibly cure them?
[00:05:47]  It's a public health issue.
[00:05:49]  The authorities can quarantine you if you have cholera or diphtheria.
[00:05:53]  And what's cholera compared to racism?
[00:05:57]  As it happens, there is a group of people who score close to zero on tests for racism.
[00:06:03]  And you know why?
[00:06:04]  They have a neurological disorder, a genetic defect called Williams Syndrome.
[00:06:10]  It's a mild form of retardation.
[00:06:13]  The part of the brain that deals with threats doesn't work.
[00:06:17]  For these people, everyone seems like a friend.
[00:06:21]  They have complete trust in total strangers.
[00:06:23]  It's a nightmare for their parents.
[00:06:25]  But they are the only people in the world for whom race really doesn't matter.
[00:06:31]  If lefties had their way, And if there was some chemical or magnetic or surgical way to do it, I bet they'd be happy to give someone like me the equivalent of Williams Syndrome.
[00:06:42]  They want to take healthy people and turn them into defectives.
[00:06:46]  That's where you end up when you think the most dangerous and horrifying thing anyone could be is whatever it is they call racist.
[00:06:56]  Race realism is not dangerous.
[00:06:58]  It's not a mental disorder or a condition that needs to be cured.
[00:07:02]  It's common sense.
[00:07:04]  It's the truth.
[00:07:05]  And it's the key to recovering our dignity as a people and restoring our country and the entire West to greatness.