The “Right” Not to be Offended is Often the “Right” to Remain Ignorant
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Has anyone noticed that the Mental Health industry has benefited greatly from the whole ‘I saw something that offended me, I’m traumatized’ movement? In fact, my boys noticed something. They said the MHI (mental health industry) insists we need counseling for everything from cicadas to having to home cook meals during the pandemic. But when it comes to saying I’m Napoleon, I’m a girl, or sex and babies have no connection, it’s the most normal thing in the world. And now the MHI makes more than some Fortune 500 companies. There could be a connection here.
Consider how much the Mental Health Industry also benefits from spreading the transgender delusion. A lifetime of therapy and supplements and if anything goes wrong that’s just a sign that more people need to transition!
Paul McHugh, retired chief of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins, has done yeoman service in resisting the transgender rubbish. (The rapidity with which this bout arose persuades me that there’s some sorosphere outfit which sets the meme-of-the-year for the media and the public interest bar).
The argument offered by Thomas Szasz a generation ago I think holds. The normative aspect of psychiatry and clinical psychology is just the resultant of the preference vectors of the mental health trade. It doesn’t have any autonomous validity though they pretend it does. The frank insanity of destroying parental authority over adolescents in order that perverted surgeons and endocrinologists can poison and mutilate them placed side by side with state laws which put ‘reparative therapists’ (who just converse with unhappy homosexual men) out of business should pretty much discredit their professional associations and the official idea in psychiatry and clinical psychology.
And the thing to do is to end – by law – the practice of financing their activities by insurance companies except the subset among them who supervise schizophrenics and a few others.
I’m afraid you cave in to chronic complainers and labile attention whores, you get more attention-whoring. Competent work supervisors know this. People in charge in higher education are too stupid to get this or they’re exploiting their losers and whiners for their own bureaucratic warfare.
I wonder how much of the push to eliminate Dred Scott from classes has to do with brainwashing students to not ever question other Supreme Court decisions.
As in Roe v. Wade and Obergefell v. Hodges