According to The College Fix, the director of student counseling at Middlebury College claims that all psychic suffering can be blamed on “whiteness, heteronormativity, [and] patriarchal systems.”
In an interview with the campus newspaper, Alberto Soto shared that previous counselors he has worked with throughout his career have lacked cultural competency, not being able to address the source of suffering for humanity. He said, “The body and mind cannot be healed solely by self-care and focusing on surviving. At some point, we must address and identify the source of all our psychic suffering, which is whiteness, heteronormativity, patriarchal systems, etc.”
In order to fix these problems, he plans to increase outreach to a diverse student population and question “Eurocentric ideas surrounding mental health” while seeking to challenge the “historically-dominant whiteness in the Middlebury community.”
It sounds like your average college professor or faculty member to me, especially at a school like Middlebury–but how soon is it until we see all of these schools torn to the ground in the name of progress?
