I went to a UCLA seminar on triggering — and was triggered by a MAGA hat

latimes.com ^ | January 16, 2020 | JOANNA CHEEK

[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.

[tbw2]

“The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.” Thomas Sowell

Social sciences are 85-90% liberal. And it is getting worse.

The big review paper on the lack of political diversity in social psychology
http://heterodoxacademy.org/2015/09/14/bbs-paper-on-lack-of-political-diversity/

Survey shocker: Liberal profs admit they’d discriminate against conservatives in hiring, advancement
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/aug/1/liberal-majority-on-campus-yes-were-biased/

[DesertRhino]

So a Canadian psycho-woman wants to make an American feel unwelcome. And cannot imagine how anyone thinks anything differently from her opinion. That’s really educated sounding.

[tbw2]

Liberals are lying with scientific studies to smear conservatives as irrationally angry and afraid. That lets them oppress conservatives as crazy and irrational. It is a hateful stereotype based on bad science. And it is institutional bigotry, because a liberal group that proved this negative stereotype of conservatives wasn’t true had the paper rejected.

We Tried to Publish a Replication of a Science Paper in Science. The Journal Refused.
Our research suggests that the theory that conservatives and liberals respond differently to threats isn’t actually true.
https://slate.com/technology/2019/06/science-replication-conservatives-liberals-reacting-to-threats.html

That is aside from the massive politicization of the social sciences.

Self-censorship on Campus Is Bad for Science
Amid heightened tensions on college campuses, well-established scientific ideas are suddenly meeting with stiff political resistance.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/05/self-censorship-campus-bad-science/589969/

Psychology’s Replication Crisis Is Running Out of Excuses
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/11/psychologys-replication-crisis-real/576223/

Survey shocker: Liberal profs admit they’d discriminate against conservatives in hiring, advancement
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/aug/1/liberal-majority-on-campus-yes-were-biased/

A Confession of Liberal Intolerance
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/08/opinion/sunday/a-confession-of-liberal-intolerance.html

[TECTopcat]

she’s closed minded,bigoted and full of hate-we need to use the left’s words to describe them when they exhibit this behavior

[fieldmarshaldj]

Psychotic leftist on full display.

[Bringbackthedraft]

“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.” ............................. Psychiatrist or just plain psycho? I wonder where she lives? Here will be my safe place, so long as this psychiatrist is at least 2000 miles away. We can thank the never ending fake dribble of the spoon feeding media for anti MAGA people. The media prints the hate and feeds it.

[daniel1212]

I was almost tempted to click on the link and read the whole article but then I remembered by New Year's Resolution. Does it get any better? And by that I mean, did she recognize that she needs to seek professional help?

No: she is the professional help who is here to tell you that being triggered is a problem that can be avoided by being understanding. Which presumes you actually interact with those you do not interact with due to being protected from being triggered.

For what the story is a testimony to is how isolated and brainwashed she is, likely in her university cocoon, being protected from being triggered so that, being programed by the likes of MSNBC, when she sees a 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

So the MAGA hat triggers in me a slideshow of sorrow and shock from today’s volatile and divisive world, and I’m no longer capable of being curious or compassionate for all the experiences that make this man who he is: a human (like me) desperately trying to belong and survive, who (like me) is socialized by complex forces outside of his awareness and control, and who (like me) may feel fear, grief, powerlessness or shame hiding under his armor of anger. I

Instead I slip into a false refuge of certainty. I know this guy — he’s a fascist, racist, misogynistic, homophobe.

The source of the problem isn’t rogue individuals being triggered, as Trump Jr. argues, but a vicious culture that is triggering. As we become more divided, the more we attack each other, the more we are left unable to truly see each other as complex human beings and have empathy for each other’s needs and struggles. - Joanna Cheek is a psychiatrist and clinical assistant professor of medicine at the University of British Columbiahttps://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-01-16/maga-trump-jr-ucla-triggering ______________

Here in this lower-income densely populated city of mostly working pleasant amicable Central Americans they rehabbed an old factory building and turned it into condos. Which (in the name of diversity) they filled with what we used to call "Yuppies." Hardly a single child, but plenty of pets, and almost zero interaction with the neighborhood.

How much more isolated intellectual liberals like this lady likely are, as with Liz Warren it seems, and thus besides the brainwashed view of the Right, they come up with fantastical absurd welfare schemes that are imagined in the rarified air of the church of Starbucks.

[HombreSecreto]

She is pictorial proof of Rush Limbaugh’s Undeniable Fact of Life #24.

[Simon Foxx]

“Is she a descendant of Eleanor Roosevelt?”

‘more likely from eohippus...’
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ROTFLMAO!!!!!

[justa-hairyape]

When I see a Che TShirt I am triggered to think the idiot wearing the shirt wants to kill me just like Che did. Am I wrong ?

[5th MEB]

Ummm, OK; shes still uglier than a skunks ass.

As a matter of fact she looks just like the tree hugger that lives about 3 miles away from me, and DAMN, THAT’S UGLY.

[Ratman0823]

Cheeky little snowflake, ain't she? Four words for her:

GET A FRIGGING LIFE!

[Prince of Space]

OMG! I was triggered by her gum line! My eyes, my eyes!

[S.O.S121.500]

And one of the specific reasons that I wear my MAGA hat every chance I get so that it may “trigger” some dumb ass liberal exactly like you.

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Uniform for the ‘Glock Out’ game.....

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Lady, you’re crazy. You should see a psychiatrist ASAP.

[William Tell]

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

Unwelcome? Yes.

Shame? Nope.

As for "unsafe", what comes to mind is the poster about gun owners with the caption, "We have almost a billion firearms and a trillion rounds of ammunition. If we were the problem, you would know it."

[AbolishCSEU]

it’s not that we’re timid. I live in UPstate NY and I’d like that my car not be keyed nor my tires slashed.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

“She practices psychoeducation, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), mindfulness-based interventions, dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT), and psychodynamic therapy.”

These all sound like useful techniques for brainwashing.

[Mashood]

Wow...Joanna is very smart and professional.

[NFHale]

And we’re HIS snowplow.

All he needs do is say the word.