Let’s hope the young doctors coming out of UCLA’s medical school never encounter patients as sick as the moonbats in charge of their instruction. Earlier we learned they were subjected to a mandatory 2-hour lecture by the keffiyeh-covered Lisa Gray-Garcia, who denounced modern medicine as “white science,” proclaimed the October 7 terror atrocities to be justified, and demanded students kneel in obeisance to “Mama Earth.” Now we learn of a talk hosted by the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences that promoted self-immolation as a form of “revolutionary suicide”:

The talk, “Depathologizing Resistance,” was delivered on April 2 by two psychiatry residents at UCLA, Drs. Ragda Izar and Afaf Moustafa, under the auspices of the department’s diversity office and UCLA’s Health Ethics Center, according to slides and emails obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

No diversity office serves a constructive purpose. Neither does an “ethics center” run by fiends who encourage suicide for political purposes.

The remarks centered on the suicide of Aaron Bushnell, the U.S. serviceman who set himself on fire in February to protest U.S. support for Israel—or, as Izar put it, “indigenous Palestine.”

Regarding the moonbat Bushnell’s conspicuous mental illness,

“Yes, he carried a lot of distress,” Izar said, according to audio of the talk reviewed by the Free Beacon. “But does that mean the actions he engaged in are any less valid?”

With leftists in charge, a psychiatrist’s job isn’t to make you less crazy. It is to affirm you in your craziness.

The talk reflects the erosion of what was until recently a bedrock medical norm: From the American Psychiatric Association to the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, all professional mental health bodies warn against glorifying self-harm, lest it inspire others to harm themselves.

The “first do no harm” principle went out the window in favor of “gender-affirming care.” Now doctors are cutting healthy fingers off to pander to the psychotic delusions of their patients. The notoriously kooky psychiatry field wasn’t about to be left behind in this march of progress.

The Experts have praised the kids they help mess up for committing suicide:

Pediatricians got a vivid taste of the brave new world in 2022 when Morissa Ladinsky, in an address at the American Academy of Pediatrics’s annual conference, praised a transgender teenager, Leelah Alcorn, for “boldly … ending her life” and leaving a suicide note that “went viral, literally around the world.”

Ladinsky, a pediatrician at the University of Alabama Children’s Hospital, leads the clinic’s “Gender Health Team.”

Back to UCLA:

Izar and Moustafa, who are practicing psychiatrists, argued that self-immolation is a reasonable response to geopolitical events and that the taboo against it serves “the interests of power.” By “perpetuating the stigma of self-immolation,” they said, psychiatrists “discredit” resistance to “power structures” like “colonization,” “homophobia,” and “white supremacy,” framing legitimate acts of protest as signs of psychiatric dysfunction.

In short, they are as nutty as their patients, but with the difference that their nuttiness is more dangerous because it centers on an evil ideology.

Their contentions undercut official guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which warns that “bestowing honor and admiration” on suicide victims can inspire others to take their own lives.

No doubt the CDC will get on board once it realizes that encouraging mentally ill people to commit suicide helps combat colonialization, homophobia, and white supremacy, et cetera, ad nauseam.

[Liberal] jargon was peppered throughout Izar and Moustafa’s talk. One slide asserted that psychiatry has “weaponized tools of colonization, racism, anti-blackness, homophobia, and various tools of oppressions.” Another told psychiatrists to “embed your practice with an anti-colonial lens” and “recognize that mental health is intimately tied to liberation.”

Every institution subverted by leftists is reduced to a dysfunctional, demented, malevolent farce. The medical profession will be no exception.

On a tip from Anonymous.

Medical education has succumbed to the Long March Through the Institutions. It is no longer primarily about education or medicine. It is about indoctrination and moonbattery:

First-year UCLA medical students were forced to sit through a bizarre lecture by a pro-Hamas activist who made them pray to ‘mama Earth’…

Lisa Gray-Garcia gave the two-hour presentation at Geffen Hall, on the university’s downtown campus on March 27.

Participation was not voluntary.

The lecture was a mandatory part of the Structural Racism and Health Equity class that all future doctors must take, administered by pediatrician Lindsay Wells.

The qualifications of Lindsay Wells to educate doctors are conspicuous. As for Gray-Garcia, she…

…keeps her face covered with a keffiyeh except in a few interviews…

Gray-Garcia has pronounced the Islamic terror atrocities of October 7 “justified.” Consider the acts of satanic evil that were deliberately inflicted on innocent women and children on that day and then try to get your head around the Powers That Be forcing students to listen to lunatics who endorse them.

Students were instructed to touch the floor with their fists while she made a ‘non-secular’ prayer to ‘mama Earth’ and our ‘ancestors’, a complaint stated.

Let’s hope whoever complained did it anonymously, or their medical career is likely to be canceled, as with this person:

During a second call for students to kneel on the floor, one refused to do so. An unidentified UCLA faculty member is said to have enquired as to the student’s name, sparking fears they could face repercussions for refusing to comply.

Doctors might not learn which part of a stethoscope goes in their ears, but they are becoming well versed in liberal ruling class ideology:

[Gray-Garcia] claimed private property was a ‘crapitalist lie’ that killed ‘black, brown, and houseless’ people who were forced to live on the streets.

These are not harmless kooks; they want to hurt people:

At one point, she led students in chanting ‘Free, Free Palestine’, as UCLA faculty including Dr Wells watched in silence.

“Free Palestine” in the context of current events refers to the eradication of Jews from their ancient homeland.

Gray-Garcia did at least touch on the topic of medicine:

Later in the lecture, she called modern medicine ‘white science’…

The association of modern medicine with white people means that it is bad, which might be why she chose to hold forth on unrelated topics.

Education like this doesn’t come cheap:

UCLA charges medical students fees of around $44,000-a-year, with additional costs taking the total needed to train there to $84,000-a-year.

Good thing it is subsidized by taxpayers.

You cannot hide from liberals. No matter what students major in, so long as leftists control the schools, they are majoring in moonbattery.

On a tip from Ed McAninch.

What progressives are progressing toward is the eradication of Western Civilization. Nothing is sacred — not even Shakespeare:

A study funded by the British government to the tune of almost a million pounds claims that William Shakespeare, one of foremost the literary icons in history, has been disproportionately represented and has enabled “white, able-bodied, heterosexual, cisgender male narratives” to dominate theatre.

The study, by academics at the University of Roehampton, was funded by the government’s Arts and Humanities Research Council …

Shakespeare’s work and those who have appreciated it reflect the attributes of the culture that produced them, including “masculinity and nationalism.” Clearly, the Bard is overdue for cancelation.

Social engineers have already found a replacement:

As a counter to Shakespeare’s lack of diversity, the researchers are staging a production of a play by John Lyly, a playwright around at the same time as Shakespeare but who wasn’t as successful.

The researchers claim that the Lyly play Galatea offers “an unparalleled affirmative and intersectional demographic, exploring feminist, queer, transgender and migrant lives”.

Given that basically none of those things existed when the play was written, anyone in their right mind would conclude that they are not themes in the play, and instead have been crowbarred into it by the ‘academics’ obsessed with pushing their identity nonsense agenda.

You can’t have moonbattery and also have anything else. It is like algae that consumes all the oxygen in a pond so that nothing else can live.

On a tip from Franco.

Did you think you could take a break from the liberal establishment’s relentless promotion of sexual depravity by escaping into the past? Not a chance.

Via Arts Council England, British taxpayers have been financing an LGBT history exhibition at the Hastings Museum and Art Gallery. It falsely claims that birds engage in transgenderism…

After spewing total garbage about animals, the museum’s guide, designed by The They Them Studio, a “queer-led graphic design company,” goes on to claim that “Eighteenth-century colonialism is responsible for the destruction of many ancient gender systems in countries around the world.”

Humans throughout the world randomly copulated with each other in a state of polysexual bliss, free of patriarchy, heteronormativity, cisgenderism, morality, et cetera. But then the white people came and ruined everything.

The guide further claims that some Greek gods were bisexual, King William II was definitely gay because he was a bit effeminate and had no wife or children, and that an 11th century Archbishop had “queer sensibilities” and could be “considered a defender of gay rights.”

LGBTism extends its reach even to the age of the dinosaurs:

By far the most ridiculous entry on the guide is a description of a fossilised dinosaur footprint, that states “we cannot comment on the sexuality of the dinosaur who made this footprint, but we do know that the 11-year-old boy who found it is now grown up, happily married to his husband Greg in a pink house in Hastings.” …

“Queer history takes many forms, and in this case, it makes up an important part of the fossil’s provenance,” the guide ludicrously adds.

There is to be no escape anywhere until moonbattery has been overthrown and eradicated.

On a tip from ABC of the ANC.

Hatred of Israel is now politically correct. If the highest ranking Jewish official in US history belligerently sides with Hamas against Israel, imagine the slant in Seattle area public schools. From Mukilteo, Washington:

Sobia Sheikh is a math teacher at Mariner High School. Since the Oct. 7 terrorist attack against Israel, she’s posted antisemitic memes to her Facebook page. They accuse Jews of bringing the terrorist attack on themselves, compare Israel to Nazi Germany and smear the Jewish people for creating a genocide and death camp in Gaza.

Israel = Nazi Germany. Modern leftism takes the inversion of reality to extremes of psychosis George Orwell never imagined.

[Sheikh’s] views of Israel and Jews are on full display, declaring in one post, “From the river to the sea. Palestine will be free.”

In other words, Death to Jews. If you disagree, you are guilty of genocide.

Shrieks Sheikh:

“Anyone who is pro-Israel on my friends list, delete me. We can’t be friends. … If you’re pro-Israel, you’re pro-killing babies. You’re pro-genocide.”

Even leftist maniacs regard killing babies as bad, so long as the context is not abortion and the babies belong to a favored identity group.

Sheikh’s intention to indoctrinate students into her ideology is on the record:

Parents Defending Freedom first reported the teacher’s “alarmingly antisemitic” posts after an investigation stemming from a public disclosure request. They asked for public records of teachers who signed onto an “Educators for Palestinian Freedom” statement. Those who signed the statement identify as “progressive educators who oppose racism and settler colonialism in all its forms.” Sheikh is listed as a signatory.

“Settler colonialism” is a Liberalese expression referring to two countries leftists want abolished, the USA and Israel.

The statement ends with a “commitment” to use their classrooms to push their anti-Israel viewpoints by “implementing project-based learning for our students on questions of social justice, and particularly on the Palestinian struggle for liberation.”

Imagine how fast she would be fired if she had signed a public pledge to convert kids to Christianity.

On a tip from Straight Shootr.

Even the evil achieved in Nazi concentration camps can be surpassed. The depravity of Josef Mengele’s medical atrocities is rivaled by gender-affirming care. In the aftermath of October 7, Jewish leftists may top the kapos:

In exchange for better food and clothing, increased autonomy, possible occasional visits to a brothel, and a 10 times greater chance of survival, kapos served as the first line of discipline and regulation within the camps.

They supervised their fellow inmates, oversaw their slave labor, and often punished them for the slightest infractions — sometimes by beating them to death.

In 2019, the Jewish Chronicle called the word kapo the “worst insult a Jew can give another Jew.”

Yet some have been voting for the modern day equivalent:

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) issued an extraordinary demand Thursday for Israel to hold new elections aimed at ousting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whom the Biden administration and Democrats dislike.

They would prefer a liberal patsy who will agree to a ceasefire with Hamas.

Democrats know all about the systematic rape, torture, and murder of women and children inflicted on October 7. They know that “ceasefire” means surrender and that “from the river to the sea” means the eradication of Jews from their homeland. Yet they undercut our only real ally in the Middle East by trying to topple its leadership while it has its back to the wall.

Election interference targeting Netanyahu began under Obama, who some believe is currently the acting president.

Democrats have resented Netanyahu ever since he publicly opposed President Barack Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran, which gave billions of dollars to the Iranian regime for its terror activities and would have allowed Iran to emerge as a nuclear power after roughly a decade even if it complied fully with the terms of the deal. Netanyahu has also opposed President Joe Biden’s proposal to establish a Palestinian state as the outcome of the current war, which was started by Hamas terrorists.

Schumer and the rest side with Iran and Hamas against Netanyahu — and against America. Muslims hate both for the same reasons, as do leftists.

Biden has been publicly critical of Netanyahu, saying that he is “hurting” Israel more than he is “helping” it. Last week, Biden was caught on a hot mic saying that he had told Netanyahu he needed a “come to Jesus” meeting. And Vice President Kamala Harris signaled a desire to oust Netanyahu when she said last week that it was important to distinguish between Israel’s government and the Israeli people, as if the latter had not recently elected the former.

With Jews like Schumer, you don’t need Nazis. With friends like the USA under Democrat rule, you don’t need enemies.

On a tip from Varla.

When liberals started calling for the defunding and “reimagining” of police, some wondered what they planned to do about crime. Ever at the vanguard of moonbattery, Canada provides the answer:

Toronto Police Service Constable Marco Ricciardi said, “To prevent the possibility of being attacked in your home, leave your [key] fobs at your front door because they’re breaking into your home to steal your car. They don’t want anything else.”

Just let thieves have your property. Then we don’t need police.

The Drive reports that some Canadians are taking the advice…

…like one person who—after having their vehicle broken into three times—opted to leave their car unlocked (along with a big, handwritten note indicating this) so that would-be thieves don’t break the window again.

You can see why a car is stolen in Canada every 6 minutes.

Enforcing the law is rejected because it results in disparate impact — although that can also be avoided by reassigning criminals of color to a different race.

Citizens would be able to defend themselves from thieves entering their homes demanding the car keys, except that where liberalism has triumphed, only criminals and the government (but I repeat myself) have guns.

On a tip from Brian Brandt.

Remember when John Derbyshire was defenestrated by National Review for politically incorrectly publishing The Talk: Nonblack Version? He committed thoughtcrime by advising nonblack parents to warn their kids about situations where they will be outnumbered:

Via The Blaze:

KTVI reported, “One person is hospitalized with critical injuries after a fight Friday near Hazelwood East High School.”

She has not been named, presumably because she is a child.

The victim had her head violently bashed into the pavement at least four times.

The teenage girl is seen on video lying unconscious on the pavement and begins to go into convulsions after the monstrous attack.

Those around her ignored her condition.

This will come as no surprise:

The Missouri news outlet noted that there were no arrests in the horrific assault as of Saturday.

Welcome to the world today’s children will grow up in, thanks to Critical Race Theory indoctrination and engineered demographic transformation.

On a tips from Anonymous and ABC of the ANC.

Update:

At least there has been an arrest:

The girl reportedly suffered a traumatic brain injury and is listed in critical condition in hospital, while the assailant was arrested on assault charges Saturday, taken to the St. Louis County Family Court and held in custody through to Sunday.

Social media content suggests that the victim had been the target of bullying at the school.

Whether any punishment follows is doubtful, given the respective races.

The New York Times is the flagship publication of the liberal establishment. Generations have passed since it could be taken seriously as an objective source of information. Times reporter Walter Duranty started propagandizing on behalf of the Soviet Union over a century ago. He received a Pulitzer for hiding Stalin’s atrocities from the public; the NY Times refuses to disavow the prize to this day. Yet not even the Shady Gray Lady is biased enough to suit other propaganda platforms in the increasingly radicalized — and increasingly desperate — “mainstream” media.

Gripes CNN:

The Times has been far too distracted as of late by worries over President Joe Biden’s age, allowing it to steal attention away from the larger and far more serious danger posed by a second Trump administration.

That is, the danger to the liberal agenda.

Media moonbats are especially enraged that the NY Times put out a poll admitting that the American people do not like Joe Biden. The poll complicates Democrat strategy by confirming that Biden is likely to lose a fair election.

Hilariously, the conspicuously far-left NY Times is accused of conservative bias for touching on the topic of Biden’s obvious decrepitude and senility:

“That they even asked this question [i.e., whether Biden is too old] is evidence of the bias — the agenda — in their poll,” Jeff Jarvis, the Leonard Tow Professor of Journalism Innovation at the CUNY Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, posted on Threads.

CNN even criticizes itself for not being sufficiently devoted to suppressing information that undermines the Democrat party line:

CNN and MSNBC can’t even seem to arrive at a firm policy over how to cover Trump’s live remarks (at times, both networks have boasted about how they don’t air his lie-filled speeches live, and at other times, such as on Monday, they both did just that).

No doubt letting the public hear the speeches of the opposition candidate would constitute conservative bias.

Moonbats can largely avoid hearing the opposing point of view by sticking to MSNBC. Following Trump mopping up on Super Tuesday, its election panel quickly cut away from his victory speech:

[Militant moonbat Rachel] Maddow was unapologetic about her network’s deliberate decision to cut off the former president’s speech. …

“I will say that it is a decision that we revisit constantly in terms of the balance between allowing somebody to knowingly lie on your air about things they’ve lied about before and you can predict they are going to lie about,” Maddow explained.

“And so, therefore, it is just irresponsible to allow them to do that.”

It is “irresponsible” to allow the public to hear what one of the two presidential candidates has to say, because if the opponent says it, it must be a lie.

A legitimate news source would let us hear the speech, then fact check it for inaccuracies. However, the purpose of the liberal media is not to inform but to provide an echo chamber, egging on liberals to climb ever further out on a limb.

When Trump wins, the limb will break and dump them to the ground — provided we have a fair election.

Here is the speech MSNBC doesn’t want the public to hear:

On tips from Barry A and ABC of the ANC.

There is nothing moonbats won’t use Big Government to take away from you, not bacon, not eggs, not coffee, not cold beer, not hot showers — not even toilets:

Flushing our waste is, well, wasteful, accounting for nearly a third of indoor water use in US homes, according to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). In many parts of the world, the use of water toilets has become increasingly fraught as climate change ushers in extreme droughts and flooding, which backs up sewers and overflows septic tanks.

Social engineers want us to use “dry toilets” instead:

Users layer the contents of the toilet’s bin with peat or sawdust after doing their business; once full, they move the excrement to a larger airtight container over the course of several months so that any microorganisms die out.

The remaining material, rich in nitrogen and phosphorus, can be used as natural fertilizer rather than the usual greenhouse gas-emitting synthetic kind.

Thereby, dry toilets please liberals’ weather gods.

Environmental engineer Kelsey McWilliams became “hooked” on sanitation solutions after participating in the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation “Reinvent the Toilet Challenge” while at the University of Delaware, she said.

That would be the same Bill Gates who has been conspiring along with George Soros and the Biden Regime to blot out the sun because global warming.

Even CNN admits that dry toilets have disadvantages:

Waiting up to a year for waste to be safely recycled will deter many people — and the ick factor may be hard to shake.

That’s why dry toilets will first be subsidized, then be made mandatory, following the strategy for electric cars. Real toilets will be progressively strangled out of existence through regulation.

A few regulations are actually beneficial. Progressives will get rid of these. Consider a RecoLab waste water recycling plant in Sweden:

As of now, the plant does not recycle graywater, due to strict Swedish government regulations on repurposing wastewater for drinking. But [aptly named RecoLab business developer Amanda] Haux is hoping that will change, particularly in municipalities where water shortages may become more common due to climate change.

Lots of liberal hopes hang on climate change. After all, if temperatures don’t happen to trend warmer, global warming hoaxers will have to make fools of themselves by telling us cold weather is caused by warm weather.

The modern toilet was developed by white guys like the also aptly named Thomas Crapper. Therefore, toilets are racist in addition to being offensive to the climate. Prepare to do without them.

On a tip from R F.

Google promotes the sexual abuse of children by demanding we be “nuanced” in our opinion of pedophilia. Likewise, New Scientist calls for a “more subtle view” of the next taboo social engineers plan to normalize, cannibalism:

Ethically, cannibalism poses fewer issues than you might imagine. If a body can be bequeathed with consent to medical science, why can’t it be left to feed the hungry?

If you disapprove of cannibalism, you don’t care about feeding the hungry. You may even be a Christian nationalist:

Our aversion has been explained in various ways. Perhaps it is down to the fact that, in Western religious traditions, bodies are seen as the seat of the soul and have a whiff of the sacred.

Worse yet, you could be a racist:

Or maybe it is culturally ingrained, with roots in early modern colonialism, when racist stereotypes of the cannibal were concocted to justify subjugation. These came to represent the “other” to Western societies – and revulsion towards cannibalism became a tenet of their moral conscience.

Anyone not get it yet that woke ideology is pure evil?

Progressives progress. It’s what they do. After homosexualizing children and normalizing pedophilia, continuing to push the envelope won’t be easy.

On a tip from Bluto.

Modern liberalism is based on postmodernism, which is based in turn on the psychotic notion that objective reality is irrelevant and that subjective reality can be controlled by manipulating language. The first postmodernist may have been Alice in Wonderland’s acquaintance Humpty Dumpty:

‘When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’

‘The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’

‘The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master — that’s all.’

To advance their objectives of transsexualizing children, preventing birth, and undermining the family, our moonbat masters apply this principle to the word “abused”:

A recently-introduced bill in the state of Illinois would change the definition of “abused child” to include minors whose parents object to their children receiving puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, transgender surgeries, and abortions.

House Bill 4876, which was introduced in early February, also shields doctors from liability if they prescribe such treatments to minors who do not have parental consent — and empowers the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) to step in and, if they deem it necessary, remove children from their biological parents based on the new definition of an “abused child.”

If DCFS bureaucrats decide parents have committed “abuse” by protecting their children from transsexualization, punishment could go up to 15 years in prison and a $25,000 fine.

As MSNBC propagandist Melissa Harris lisped,

“[W]e have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents, or kids belong to their families, and recognize that kids belong to whole communities.”

That is, kids belong to the depraved leftists who run the government.

We have gone down the rabbit hole. Turns out it leads straight to hell.

On a tip from ABC of the ANC.

Anything that succumbs to moonbattery is reduced to dysfunctional farce. Because the ideologically deranged federal government has arrogated a major role in research, this includes even the medical technology Western Civilization has developed to radically improve the human condition:

The Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention could soon employ “Indigenous Knowledge” in their research, a document obtained by the Washington Free Beacon shows.

The document is a proposed revision of scientific integrity guidelines for the Department of Health and Human Services, which encompasses the FDA, CDC, and the National Institutes of Health. Going forward, agency staff should employ “multiple forms of evidence, such as Indigenous Knowledge,” when analyzing data, the document states.

A pharmaceutical compound might be proven safe and efficacious through rigorous clinical trials. Or it might be revealed as safe and efficacious through the hallucinatory visions of a shaman high on mushrooms. In accordance with the liberal doctrine of relativism, both are equally valid.

Affirming the relevance of “indigenous knowledge” (a.k.a. savage superstitions) allows bureauweenies to proclaim their devotion to diversity/equity/inclusion:

“A strong culture of scientific integrity begins with ensuring a professional environment that is safe, equitable, and inclusive,” the report says. “Issues of diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility are an integral component of the entire scientific process.”

Scientific integrity is ensured by elevating the magical thinking of failed societies to the level of modern science, according to the depraved lunatics comprising the liberal ruling class.

Fortuitously, bureaucrats may be able to make the numbers add up even after they have finished incrementally socializing medicine by substituting witchdoctors wagging bones for medical care.

On a tip from Angel.

When UK police cracked down on the English flag because it is racist, Not the Bee wondered whether they would also come after the Union Jack, which is based on it. Looks like we have the answer:

Extended video, via Blazing Cat Fur:

In the UK as in the USA, the government is at war with the country it rules. Hence the systematic displacement of the respective native populations via mass Third World immigration.

On a tip from Brian Brandt.