This sounds perfectly normal and healthy. Not.
From Daily Mail:
“A Yale psychiatrist told MSNBC host Joy Reid that it’s fine to disown family members who voted for Trump.
Dr. Amanda Calhoun, a child psychiatry fellow at the Ivy league school, made the comments during an interview on Reid’s show The Reid Out Friday, while discussing coping strategies for people upset by Trump’s election win.
‘There is a societal norm that if somebody is your family that they are entitled to your time and I think the answer is absolutely not,’ Calhoun said.
‘So if you are going into a situation where you have family members, where you have close friends, who you know have voted in ways that are against you, against your livelihood, it’s completely fine to not be around those people and to tell them why. ‘To say, “I have a problem with the way that you voted because it went against my very livelihood and I’m not going to be around for this holiday. I have to take space for me.’
Reid had asked the psychiatrist for advise on how to interact with Trump supporters.
‘If you are an LGBTQ person and you know someone in your family voted essentially against your rights, or you’re a woman knowing, you know, that this man was calling people the b word,’ Reid said.
‘JD Vance was literally calling Kamala Harris “the trash.” He said, “We’re going to take out the trash.”
‘I know a lot of black women were incredibly triggered by that.’
Calhoun previously made headlines last year when she said doctors should be forced to wear body cameras to catch the racist ones.”
Read the whole article here.
Trump has broken them. All of ’em.
DCG
Just reinforces our opinion that a degree from Harvard or Yale means little about a person’s character.
Some people are over educated in ignorance and it just shows when they open their mouths.
For the family—even friends—even community—“super-ordinate goals” are the basis for the preservation for all. The good for all of these comes first. What this odious and mis-educated “psychiatrist” propagates is that separation of all these connections is good, whereas, in literature and empirical -based double-blind studies…this is, instead, a herald of mental illness (anger, unresolved issues, separation, isolation, following cultic others…etc.) This “psychiatrist” has already been refuted on air by others. She personalized and injected her therapeutic guidance of avoidance it into her own therapeutic regimen, which is biased. One must consider the audience of which she was invited to address, and the platform of the program, “The View.”
Shame on Yale University for having this woman on their faculty. Abolishing the Dept of Education is a key part of Trump’s platform. Let’s hope he’ll do that. Doing that, however, requires approval from Congress.
At the very least, I hope President Trump will withhold any federal grants and funds from Yale U.