Quick Takes – Woke Medicine: Psychic Suffering; Black Revolutionary Feminism; Humanism, Equity, and Anti-Racism

     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: Woke medicine is crazy!

     First, a little mood music:

     Carrying on…

Death, Rx

     Nothing says modern medical psychology like protecting students from “psychic suffering”!

“Last month, Middlebury College hired Alberto Soto to serve as its Director of Counseling. In an interview Soto told The Middlebury Campus that ‘source of all our psychic suffering,’ are ‘whiteness, heteronormativity,’ and ‘patriarchal systems’.

“‘The body and mind cannot be healed solely by self-care and focusing on surviving,’ Soto told the student newspaper. ‘At some point we must address and identify the source of all our psychic suffering, which is whiteness, heteronormativity, patriarchal systems, etc.’

“Soto earned his PhD in psychology at Brigham Young University, a conservative, Mormon institution.”

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When Kids Must Be Believed If They Say They Are Trans, But Never If They Say They Are Cis

     When a child “comes out” as transgender, everyone is supposed to believe that child without question, with even parents being punished for daring to disagree.   This is because being “transgender” is “who they are” and forcing them to be something they don’t believe themselves to be is evil… just as long as they stay “transgender”.

     Notice how many of these same people who say you must believe a child’s self-declared “gender identity” are aghast and bemused when a child changes their mind and comes out as cis-gender?

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All Your Bank (Accounts) Are Belong To U.S.

     Don’t like private banks? Neither does Biden’s Treasury nominee Saule Omarova who wants all private bank accounts to become direct deposit accounts controlled by the Federal Reserve!

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When Public Schools Are Objectively Pro-Rape

     If you thought what happened in Loudoun, Virginia was bad, at least they didn’t suspend the victim of rape for daring to report the rape despite the perpetrator admitting his crime to the police!

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Diagnosis: Climate Change

     Ah, Canada!   The land where state monopoly healthcare is geared towards slaughter. The land where climate heretics are rooted out and punished.   Now these two facets have combined in a Canadian way: A doctor in British Columbia is diagnosing patients as suffering from “climate change”. The following missive from famed physician barber Theodoric of York in support of this new policy is presented.

Theodoric of York

Theodoric of York, Climate Scientist

You know, medicine is not an exact science, but we are learning all the time. Why, just fifty years ago, they thought diseases like diabetes and heart failure is caused by unhealthy dieting and lack of exercise. But nowadays we know that people are suffering from an an angry Gaia due to an imbalance of nature, perhaps caused by a lack of wind and solar farms. I am thrilled that more and more medical professionals are coming around to realize the truth, such as Doctor Merritt:

“Climate change enters the ER: For the first time in his 10 years as a physician, the ER doctor picked up his patient’s chart and penned in the words ‘climate change.’ ‘If we’re not looking at the underlying cause, and we’re just treating the symptoms, we’re just gonna keep falling further and further behind,’ he told Glacier Media when asked why he did it. At the same time, Merritt says he hoped another family physician would read the chart, and one day, consider drawing a straighter line between their patients’ health and climate change.

“… The response was immediate. Roughly 40 doctors and nurses at the small hospital — all busy trying to manage a pandemic and their regular professional lives — came together under the banner Doctors and Nurses for Planetary Health. … Starting Thursday at noon, Lau says the non-partisan group is calling on the provincial government to, among other things, declare an ‘ecological emergency’ and end subsidies to the fossil fuel industry. ‘A lot of us were really shook by this summer, by the heat dome and the wildfires that are just escalating every year,’ she says. ‘This is about moving forward in a way that saves lives.’”

If only more professional practitioners of bloodletting, leeches, and climatology acknowledged modern science and treated the problem, a disgruntled goddess of the Earth, and not the symptoms like “disease”.

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Microsoft Goes Full In On Wokeness

     Silicone Valley doesn’t have a monopoly on wokeness in computers. Redmond has gotten into the game and gone full out in support for wokeness: Microsoft is now pushing proper pronouns and appologetics for “native stolen land”, amongst other things.

     It gets worse:

     But that’s just the company’s internal culture, right? No way this effects you, right?

     Wrong.

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News of the Week (November 14th, 2021)

 

News of the Week for Nov. 14th, 2021


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Firing Line Friday: The Electoral Verdict

     In the hopes of encouraging a more civil, and illuminating, discourse, here is another episode of William F. Buckley, Jr.’s “Firing Line”.

     After the potentially portentous election this month, let us look back at another substantive election that wend the other way… with dire consequences. William F. Buckley, Jr. along with Richard Reeves and Joseph Kraft discuss the aftermath of the 1976 election.

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Trans-Women Athletes Are Good But Trans-Species Bird Are Better

     If a biological male can with first prize in a women’s sporting contest, then why can’t a biological mammal be named “Bird of the Year 2021”?

“The bat is getting its due — at the expense of birds.

“New Zealand has named the bat their ‘Bird of the Year,’ despite the now-controversial fact that bats are not of the avian family.

“Bats are regarded as New Zealand’s only native land mammal, and under threat of extinction — as well as public scrutiny as of late due to its potential link to the initial coronavirus outbreak in 2020.

“It’s the first time a non-bird has been honored with the award, angering some birders who claim the mammalian animal stole the election from the rightful Aves class.

“Approximately 7,000 voters favored the bat against some 200 New Zealand-native species of bird.

“The Oceanic nation crowned the species the ‘long-tailed bird’ or pekapeka-tou-roa. The precious bat, hardly bigger than a thumb when fully grown, is one of the rarest mammals in the world.

“The online poll drew in a total of 58,000 votes — the most to participate in the contest in its 16-year run. Organizers said the bat’s inclusion is part of a campaign to promote the critically endangered animal, which receives far less attention than birds overall.”

Pictured: A Bird.

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It Is For The Living To Make Sure The Dead Are Not Forgotten

     Though begun as “Armistice Day,” Veterans Day has expanded in the United States as a day for all those brave men and women who fight to keep us free. But we must never forget those who sacrificed themselves.

     The First World War was truly a senseless war, as this monument in Hungary aptly demonstrates.

     On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, let us remember they who risked everything for freedom, including their very lives.

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