Posted on 01/16/2020 5:23:51 PM PST by lowbridge
I circle around UCLAs 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 Canadas west coast I admit that I live in a progressive bubble. Ive 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.
Im at UCLA to attend a psychotherapy course to learn about these kind of moments when big emotions short circuit our minds higher functions so we cant think or behave skillfully. The professor playfully called it boom time. In other words, were triggered.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
What? Canada has refugees?!? I darren-gam-tee you that the US had taken in more genuine refugees than Canada ever thought about taking in!
TRUMP: America’s “Snowplow” since 2015!
That mouth looks like it could take a Hardee’s Gutbuster in one bite.
Just the type of stinking communist effluent one would expect to come from Canada, or as run-off from the streets, sidewalks, and gutters of San Francisco...
She should seek help.
Triggered. It used to be called blame shifting.
No it doesn’t get any better and no she still has never met and spoken to a Trump supporter because she is very comfortable in her totally non-diverse bubble. Like most liberals she is afraid of the things she has never encountered and unwilling to go outside her comfort zone. For those of us on the right diversity actually is our strength. We are forced to live in a world where every government building, school building, and most retail establishments are run by and full of liberals. Usually we pass incognito but slip on a hat and all of a sudden your are Baphomet incarnate.
Bet her FaceBook page has been purged of any Trump supporters in her tolerant fashion.
Someone needs to go to a seminar on “Suck it up”.
If Mr. Ed & Lily Tomlin had a baby....
Why should I read this over-educated dingbat’s screed?
First couple of paragraphs clearly show it to be a waste of my time!
Cognitive behavior therapy actually is useful...but if she really understood it, she would recognize the irrationality of allowing a *thing* to trigger an emotive response from her.
“Too be fair, that’s a bad picture of her. Here’s a better one.... BWAHAHAHAHAHA”
How’d you like to see those chops coming at you from a knot-hole in a picket fence?
‘Is she a descendant of Eleanor Roosevelt?’
more likely from eohippus...
Exactly! Shirkey Principle: institutions protect and promote the problem to which they are the solution for.
lol...the idiot totally believes every leftist propaganda lie about Trump supporters.
Doesn’t quite look...human....
In Brave New World, a process called hypnopaedia is used to teach moral and ethical lessons. ... The Director explains how moral education works by saying, ‘’Moral education, which ought never, in any circumstances, to be rational.’’
This is a reversion to tribal ethics. Love your tribe member, fellow believer, and hate and fear the infidel.
My father traveled to England for a professional conference as a speaker, knowing he’d be subject to a roast. So he took a MAGA hat. He was given a gag gift and then gave the MAGA hat to the MC. The guy freaked, then laughed at it, assuming it was intended to be a gag gift, that no one would in all seriousness support it. My father didn’t tell them at the time, yes, he voted for Trump.
This was pre-Brexit 2.0 vote with Boris.
She is a modern political officer, a chekist of the Soviet Union. She is there to indoctrinate and monitor compliance.
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