RE: https://flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/116415088384481830
Toni Morrison, the African American Nobel laureate, described racism as a phobia, white supremacy a neurosis and American whiteness a mental health crisis.
she got a lot of pushback from other African American intellectuals, who accused her of medicalizing racism.
i’ve never perused her Princeton papers, but it is obvious to me Morrison was taking her cues from Erich Fromm’s work. he coined “malignant narcissism” to describe Hitler & nazis.
a lot of people owe Morrison a posthumous apology.