Another “quick takes” on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on.
The focus this time: The new pagan religious preached by our new secular priesthood.
First, a little mood music:
Carrying on…
Becoming a physician once required skill and intelligence. Now it requires absolute devotion to Gaia.
“In a mandatory course on ‘structural racism’ for first-year medical students at the University of California Los Angeles, a guest speaker who has praised Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel led students in chants of ‘Free, Free Palestine’ and demanded that they bow down to ‘mama earth,’ according to students in the class and audio obtained by the
“Lisa ‘Tiny’ Gray-Garcia, who has referred to the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks as ‘justice,’ began the March 27 class by leading students in what she described as a ‘non-secular prayer’ to ‘the ancestors,’ instructing everyone to get on their knees and touch the floor—‘mama earth,’ as she described it—with their fists.
“At least half of the assembled students complied, two students said. Gray-Garcia, a local activist who had been invited to speak about ‘Housing (In)Justice,’ proceeded to thank native tribes for preserving ‘what the settlers call L.A.,’ according to audio obtained by the Free Beacon, and to remind students of the city’s ‘herstory.’
“The prayer also included a benediction for ‘black,’ ‘brown,’ and ‘houseless people’ who die because of the ‘crapatalist lie’ of ‘private property.’
“‘Mama earth,’ Gray-Garcia told the kneeling students, ‘was never meant to be bought, sold, pimped, or played.’”
It turns out that the title of “esquire” is the new “reverend” of this secular faith.
“Professor Jill Lepore and Professor Jim Salzman seek a Teaching Fellow for the Fall 2024 semester for their new course, Rights of Nature.
“The class will examine this fast-growing field, assessing the origins, practice, and potential of granting legal personhood to natural objects. The class is jointly offered through the History Department and will be equally split between HLS and FAS students.
“We seek applicants with interest and past coursework in legal history and/or environmental law and ideally some experience with teaching and/or advising. This position is only available for current HLS students.”
Nature rights with its praise of Gaia for an entire Dutch town!
“Eijsden-Margraten in Limburg has become the first local council in the Netherlands to declare nature a “legal entity” meaning that its interests can be defended in court.
“Councillor Franklin Boon, of local progressive party PRO, proposed the motion which was approved by a majority of councillors last week.
“‘We are limited to rearguard action on behalf of nature when the decisions have already been made,’ he told Trouw, referring to previous council decisions backing extensions of holiday parks, the use of pesticides, and allowing mountain biking in fragile parts of the countryside.
“That will change, Boon says, now that nature can have its ‘say’ in court before the licenses are granted.”
TTFN.
