GOP senator slammed for mocking psychologists: 'We are in a mental health crisis'
By Dan Desai Martin -May 18, 2020 6:40 PM
'If there was ever a time in our country when we need more mental health professionals, this is it,' the American Counseling Association said.
Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) used a Saturday graduation speech to demean graduating seniors, mock mental health professionals, and spew racist tropes about the coronavirus pandemic. His words are now bringing him widespread criticism.
In his speech, Sasse said psychologists are just employed "just to help people forget high school" or "research hamsters who get lost in mazes." He added, "if you are headed to college, do not — do not — major in psychology."
Sasse also belittled graduating seniors, congratulating them on "not on graduating high school, but on making the journey down the stairs from your bedroom to the living room and putting on something slightly more formal than sweatpants."
He concluded by reiterating racist tropes about China and the coronavirus pandemic, promising "a serious reckoning with the thugs in China who let this mess spiral out of control by lying about it."
https://americanindependent.com/ben-sasse-graduation-speech-coronavirus-racism-senate-gop-nebraska-fremont-high-school/
Okay asshole, let me say something, my wife has a degree in psychology, she is intelligent, thoughtful, funny, and a wonderful person / human being, she worked in Human Resources, and has back ground on humanity and how they / we think...............you on the hand are and always will be a POS................do you know what POS mean........... and you wear lapel pin with flag on it, is that your manhood toy or are your having insecurity issues being a POS making $187,000 a year.................
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He should stop by 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue some day.
Big ugly orange guy in an ill fitting suit. That's your "thug".
I have been helped by psychologists several times in my life. It appears he could use some help too.
Think about those young people - some of whom might have aspirations in that field - who felt diminished by his words.
...and, if you need any proof, look at who's in the White House.
While we're at it, let's talk about the last bit of his comment. I attended St. John's College, a "Great Books" school where you don't have majors, but carry on a unified course of study in the humanities, heavy on philosophy. Needless to say, it's not a school you attend to graduate with a specific set of vocational skills; rather, pretty much everyone there plans to get a broad liberal-arts education in their undergraduate years, and go on to specialize in an area of their choice in graduate school. Well, Sasse attended there in the "Graduate Institute" - a Master's program. And if there's anything that should peak out the irony meter, it's being told "if you are headed to college, do not — do not — major in psychology" by someone who chose to get his Master's degree in the flippin' Great Books!!!
