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I went to a UCLA seminar on triggering — and was triggered by a MAGA hat
latimes.com ^ | January 16, 2020 | JOANNA CHEEK

Posted on 01/16/2020 5:23:51 PM PST by lowbridge

I circle around UCLA’s Moore Hall for the third time. Security officers block each entrance. Police in riot gear patrol the streets. Metal fences wall off the building from protesters, and barricades separate protesters on the left from those on the right. Everyone prepares for Donald Trump Jr.’s arrival to promote his new book, “Triggered: How the Left Thrives on Hate and Wants to Silence Us.”

As a trauma therapist who works with women and refugees — and who practices on Canada’s west coast — I admit that I live in a progressive bubble. I’ve never met a Trump supporter in the flesh and the psychiatrist in me is curious: What puzzle pieces of life experience could come together to produce a world-view so opposite to mine? I hope to chat with a Trump voter to try to understand.

But then I see my first MAGA hat.

My mind floods with images of climate activist Greta Thunberg crying “How dare you?” and white men marching in straight-pride parades, wielding swastikas, guns and Confederate flags. I envision immigrant children warehoused in cages and online comments that scream, “Go back to where you came from.”

I tense up and glare at the man in MAGA. I want him to feel unwelcome, unsafe and, mostly, to feel shame.

I’m at UCLA to attend a psychotherapy course to learn about these kind of moments — when big emotions short circuit our mind’s higher functions so we can’t think or behave skillfully. The professor playfully called it “boom time.” In other words, we’re triggered.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; US: California
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To: lowbridge

Hey Joanna, you fugly, Californicated loon, it was your hero Obama who put ILLEGAL alien children in cages, NOT President Trump.

Now Joanna, go buy yourself s vibrator with Hillary Rotten Criminal’s picture on it.


21 posted on 01/16/2020 5:34:50 PM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (I'm triggered by liberals and other assorted moonbats.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

“...She wants me to feel shame? I certainly can’t claim to be proud of everything I’ve ever done but....”

...But if it’s something that pisses her off and makes her look for her “safe space”, then HELL YEAH, I’m proud of it.


22 posted on 01/16/2020 5:37:26 PM PST by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: lowbridge

I saw a car on Saturday and the driver had a MAGA hat on the parcel shelf and a People’s Party of Canada sticker on the back bumper. Unfortunately, it was too cold to wait for the driver to come out to the car, where I could shake his hand!

It was good to see, however.


23 posted on 01/16/2020 5:37:49 PM PST by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was blind but now I see...)
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To: NFHale

Too be fair, that's a bad picture of her. Here's a better one.... BWAHAHAHAHAHA

24 posted on 01/16/2020 5:37:52 PM PST by Troublemaker
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To: Troublemaker

Looks like the southbound end of a northbound jackass...

With amoebic dysentery.


25 posted on 01/16/2020 5:39:33 PM PST by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: Troublemaker

Sorry.....not much of an improvement


26 posted on 01/16/2020 5:39:36 PM PST by traderrob6
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To: lowbridge

I’ve never met a psychiatrist who didn’t need more help than they were capable of giving.

What a warped moron.


27 posted on 01/16/2020 5:39:38 PM PST by Islander7 (There is no septic system so vile, so filthy, the left won't drink from to further their agenda)
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To: Texas Eagle

I think she is the professional help!


28 posted on 01/16/2020 5:40:51 PM PST by Balding_Eagle ( The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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To: lowbridge

This idiot claims that the bare act of viewing the MAGA hat automatically triggered her feelings of loathing and revulsion. As a psychiatrist, she should know, as Epictetus taught, that “People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.”


29 posted on 01/16/2020 5:41:32 PM PST by Salvey
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To: Balding_Eagle

Yikes. The prognosis is not good.


30 posted on 01/16/2020 5:43:31 PM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: lowbridge

These people are insane.


31 posted on 01/16/2020 5:45:02 PM PST by Rebelbase
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To: lowbridge
The profound blathering of your typical, middle aged leftist Canadian woman. A “trauma” psychologist who admits being so weak minded that she’s offended by a hat and wants to traumatize the hat wearer by making him feel “unwelcome, unwanted and unsafe”

Unwilling to even tolerate being in the presence of someone she considers beneath contempt - like crackers in 1950’s Alabama or something- segregationists and violent race supremacists. - that’s the committed leftist. Just nasty people.

32 posted on 01/16/2020 5:45:45 PM PST by atc23
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To: traderrob6

Geez, I feel like a globe trotter since I know MAGA folks and haters as well.


33 posted on 01/16/2020 5:46:02 PM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: lowbridge

Note to myself, see about getting a crate of cheap RC trucks with MAGA hats on them.


34 posted on 01/16/2020 5:46:57 PM PST by Daniel Ramsey (Thank YOU President Trump, finally we can do what America does best, to be the best)
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To: lowbridge

Canadian?

WTF is she doing pontificating on US politics? GTF back to the frozen North and STH up is my advice.

(You will note that a SANE Canadian psychologist by the name of Jordan Peterson pointedly AVOIDS commenting on anything political other than Canadian politics - and then mostly talks about his own youthful experience).


35 posted on 01/16/2020 5:47:29 PM PST by Simon Foxx
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To: NFHale

Well said!


36 posted on 01/16/2020 5:48:09 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (The Rats Can't Get Over The Fact That They Lost A Rigged Election)
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To: Troublemaker
Yuck. Is that thing a man or woman?
 
37 posted on 01/16/2020 5:48:19 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (Guide me, O thou great redeemer, pilgrim through this barren land.)
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To: lowbridge

I think this lady needs to get out of Los Angeles.

The smog, and the effluvium from the feces on city streets, has caused a massive chemical imbalance in her brain.


38 posted on 01/16/2020 5:48:28 PM PST by BrexitBen
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To: lowbridge
Joanna Cheek, MD Cheek specializes in individual and group psychotherapy. She practices psychoeducation, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), mindfulness-based interventions, dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT), and psychodynamic therapy.

B.S. degree = Bull s***
M.A. degree = More s***
Phd degree = Pile higher and deeper

She teaches NONSENSE courses that will do NO ONE any good at all--NO JOB value.

psychoeducation??
cognitive behavioral therapy??
mindfulness-based interventions??
dialectical behavioral therapy?? She made this one up.
and psychodynamic therapy??

BALONEY!!

39 posted on 01/16/2020 5:48:35 PM PST by cloudmountain
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To: Troublemaker

Is she a descendant of Eleanor Roosevelt?!?!?! *LOL*


40 posted on 01/16/2020 5:48:41 PM PST by Simon Foxx
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