Yale psychiatrist urges LGBT liberals to shun Trump-voting relatives during holiday season

It was supposed to be a campaign of joy.

Yet Kamala Harris’s disastrous run for the White House has clearly brought out the worst in people, even with Christmas on the horizon.

Sadly, it seems left-wing activists have started calling for division and revenge in response to Trump’s resounding victory, which saw him win all the swing states, the Senate and the popular vote.

In particular, one academic—Dr. Amanda Calhoun, a child psychiatrist at Yale University—has urged gay liberals to ghost their Trump-voting relatives during the holiday season.

No kidding, it’s the stuff of Ebenezer Scrooge’s worst nightmares.

Calhoun made the cynical comments during an interview on MSNBC, last weekend, when host Joy Reid asked: “Do you recommend, just from a psychological standpoint, being around them?”

“There is a push, I think just a societal norm that if somebody is your family that they are entitled to your time,” said Calhoun, “and I think the answer is absolutely not.”

“If you are going through 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 you this holiday, I need to take some space for me.’”

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Calhoun said her message applies to adults as well as children. “I don’t think you should force children, I don’t think you should force adults to be around people just because they’re your family.”

“If you feel like you need to establish boundaries with people, whether they’re your family or not, I think you should very much be entitled to do so, and I think it may be essential for your mental health.”

She concluded, “It may be essential for your mental health.”

As might be expected, the comments drew considerable criticism on social media.

“Clearly, Dr Amanda Calhoun does not know what she’s talking about. In fact, I would call this the opinion of a fool,” said one X user. “Instead, no matter which of the several candidates you voted for, love your family more than your politics. Family is greater than politics, always! No question!”

Another said: “Amanda Calhoun is a socialist who wants to see the nuclear family break up. It’s obvious. Listen to how they speak about family. They hate it because families get in the way of pushing their agenda.”

“Family comes first and is way more important than politics,” posted a third.

“What Amanda Calhoun is recommending is exactly the opposite of what I’ve been telling everyone. Take care of your relationships. It’s never been a problem to have a diversity of views. Hivemind is not the answer.”

Calhoun is not new to controversy. She previously made headlines last year when she said doctors should be forced to wear body cameras in order to catch acts of racism.

“I have witnessed countless racist behaviors toward Black patients, often coupled with conscious and cruel statements,” Calhoun wrote in a piece for the Boston Globe in 2023.

“I have heard White nurses joke that young Black children will probably join gangs and doctors describe the natural hair of Black people as ‘wild’ and ‘unkempt.'”

As for patient privacy, Calhoun wrote families “could consent to the release of body camera footage if they want to bring forward complaints of racism.”

“Monitoring the actions of individuals can result in self-checking behavior,” she continued. “If we want to see a reduction in poor health outcomes for Black patients, we must hold health care professionals accountable in real time.”

Calhoun has also previously spoken out about being a black, female doctor, saying she’s received death threats over her inflammatory statements.

After giving a speech for a BLM demonstration at the Yale School of Medicine, she implored her colleagues to understand that socioeconomic status does not protect black lives from racism.

In a 2022 HuffPost column, she declared: “Before I was a doctor, I was a Black woman in America, and my white coat did not protect me.

“Status does not protect my physician father from being followed by police in his neighborhood. Status did not protect my 8-year-old sister from experiencing a delay in medical care because white nurses did not believe my pharmacist mother when she said my sister was wheezing from anaphylactic shock.

“Status does not protect college-educated Black women, like me, from being more likely to die from pregnancy-related complications than white women who did not graduate from high school.”

Earlier this year, Calhoun wrote a piece for MedPageToday about how she, as a black female physician, does not feel that Women’s History Month includes her.

“Each year, as the month passes, I am reminded of the fact that, as a Black woman, I am very hesitant to join women’s movements or initiatives without ample research into their background and reputation. Frankly, I don’t trust them.”

She wrote about how she saw her white female colleagues “publicly berating an extremely shy and incredibly knowledgeable Black female pharmacist.”

“A few other female physicians — non-Black people of color with greater race privilege — observed silently,” she added.

But the ironic part, she wrote, was that “the same female doctors who belittled that female pharmacist are the first ones to talk about sexism and the need to uplift women, but they are also the first to exclude and belittle Black women, disregarding the ‘uplift all women’ ideals they claim to have.”

“So, I am hesitant to join women’s movements because, by default, they center white women, or women with greater race privilege, unless they are actively trying to disrupt that norm,” she concluded.

However, the hilarious reality is that Calhoun joins a host of liberal women who denounce whiteness, yet marry caucasian men.

In a laughable post on her Instagram account, Calhoun can be seen posing with her white husband while holding a BLM sign. “Dismantling white supremacy with my husband/partner in crime,” she captioned the image, without a shred of irony or self-awareness.

Other black supremacists in the same situation include Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who is engaged to Riley Roberts, and Kamala Harris, who is wed to Doug Emhoff.

Meanwhile, Ilhan Omar is married to Tim Mynett, while Ketanji Brown-Jackson is married to Patrick Jackson.

Together, women like this are the gift that keeps on giving, which is perfect timing for a merry Christmas.