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Quest . (2022) 35.1 DOI 10. 51845/35 .1.10  \nThe “Antiracist” Mental Health Threat That No One Talks About  \nStanley K. Ridgley  \n“Antiracist pedagogy” is a major element of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion ideology that has found a comfortable home in the American university. But antiracist pedagogy is much more than an abstract self-evident term designed to elicit unqualified support. It has a particular meaning, content, and method, and its details are available to anyone who digs into the literature published in esoteric journals of university schools of education and off-campus non-profits.  \nSave for a handful of remarkable investigators and journalists, however—Christopher Rufo of the Manhattan Institute gets honorable mention—not enough people do the digging, so here’s the key: Antiracist pedagogy is a psychotherapeutic intervention program that divides students into two arbitrary categories based on race and dictated by ideology—oppressors and oppressed. The content of antiracism consists of a mélange of pseudoscientific speculations informed by paranoia that are then codified into a provincial theory emerging from schools of education.1 It is unsound and has no foundation in legitimate social scientific circles.2  \nAntiracism is typically delivered in a program of coercive thought reform that deploys psychological weapons against undergraduate students. The centerpiece of this crude coercive method is an explicit attack on “central elements of self,” a key marker for what psychologists have characterized as second  \n1 Peter Trower and Paul Chadwick,“Pathways to Defense of the Self: A Theory of Two Types of Paranoia,”Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice 2, no. 3 (Fall 1995): 265; Theodore Millon, Modern Psychopathology (Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders Company, 1969), 328-329.  \n2 Antiracist Pedagogy is a major theme in education schools and in several cultish “education” journals .  \nEmblematic pieces from this literature include Kyoko Kishimoto,“Anti-racist pedagogy: from faculty’s self-reflection to organizing within and beyond the classroom,” Race, Ethnicity and Education 21, no. 4, 2018: 540-554; Jason Arday,“Dismantling power and privilege through reflexivity: negotiating normative Whiteness, the Eurocentric curriculum and racial micro-aggressions within the Academy,” Whiteness and Education 3, no. 2, 2018:141-161.  \nStanley K. Ridgley is Associate Clinical Professor of Management at LeBow College of Business, Drexel University; [sridgley@drexel.edu. He is a former military intelligence officer serving in Europe and a](sridgley@drexel.edu. He is a former military intelligence officer serving in Europe and a) “Great Courses” professor. Ridgley’s signature course, Strategic Thinking Skills, is a million-dollar seller for The Teaching Company. He last appeared in AQ in the summer of 2020 with “Goat-Killing in the Humanities .”This article is adapted from his forthcoming book Brutal Minds (Humanix Books) .  \ngeneration thought reform programs that “neutralize a person’s psychological defenses.”3 In this respect, antiracist pedagogy is not pedagogy in the conventional sense. It is actually a form of crude psychotherapy, cobbled together from various hip-pocket smatterings from the literature of psychology.  \nTechniques used in clinical psychotherapeutic practice are often appropriated into antiracism programs. Hence, much of what has been learned about the management of emotional experience in the practice of clinical psychology and psychiatry is brought into play as a method through which the target is made to experience intense emotion.4  \nDuring these therapy sessions, delivered either by classroom faculty or workshop student affairs amateurs, undergraduates are urged to make themselves vulnerable in a “trusting” environment. Facilitators wheedle students to reveal private information about family life, personal beliefs, sexual identity and such, perhaps by writing in journals or verbally in “twelve-ste","cbCaipWkV79GZ0eo","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaipWkV79GZ0eo","pdf",272547,"English","# Antiracist pedagogy as a mental health threat\n## Ideology, categorization, and pseudoscience claims\n## Coercive thought reform and attacks on self\n## Emotional exposure, disclosures, and consent concerns\n## Psychological abuse and resistance framing","[{\"question\":\"What does the article claim antiracist pedagogy is instead of teaching?\",\"answer\":\"It argues that antiracist pedagogy acts as a form of crude psychotherapy and coercive thought reform rather than conventional pedagogy.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the article say students are treated in these programs?\",\"answer\":\"It describes sessions that urge students to become vulnerable and disclose private information, which is then filtered through racialist interpretations and used against them.\"},{\"question\":\"What concerns does the article raise about consent and oversight?\",\"answer\":\"It states that programs often do not provide an informed consent narrative, do not explain risks, and are rarely vetted by the local Institutional Review Board (IRB) for psychological impacts.\"}]","The “Antiracist” Mental Health Threat That No One Talks About | PDF",18]