Path: ...!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-2.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 03 May 2024 01:44:41 +0000 From: BTR1701 Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: UCLA Med Students Forced to Participate in 'Progressive' Religious Ceremony MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=fixed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Usenapp/0.92.2/l for MacOS Message-ID: Date: Fri, 03 May 2024 01:44:41 +0000 Lines: 61 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-fr2noeHXCxb2yyVd2KPvylRM3ByGFjR+hYLnAEx2IBikpGgtF6LR3OGyq+zSO2LjHg/dIE5zZz//FW5!Ui3mEf73tbesvaM/FbeQWW9u3NXz9MvcCyfTutw80Vm1UR52+pwPtSlK7KF8M2tuj3KY86lNfnTG X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 4224 X-Original-Lines: 26 https://www.johnlocke.org/ucla-med-school-subjects-students-to-speaker-touting-mother-earth-free-palestine/ In a mandatory course on "structural racism" for first-year medical student at the University of California Los Angeles, a guest speaker who has praise Hamas's Oct. 7 attack on Israel led students in chants of "Free, Fre Palestine" and demanded that they bow down to "mama earth', according t students in the class and audio obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. Lisa "Tiny" Gray-Garcia, who has referred to the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks a "justice", began the March 27 class by leading students in what she describe as a "non-secular prayer to the ancestors", instructing everyone to get o their knees and touch the floor-- "mama earth", as she described it-- wit their fists. At least half of the assembled students complied, two students said Gray-Garcia, a local activist who had been invited to speak about "Housin (In)Justice" proceeded to thank native tribes for preserving "what th settlers call L.A.," and to remind students of the city's "herstory". The prayer also included a benediction for "black, brown, and houseless peopl who die because of the crapatalist lie of private property". "Mama earth," Gray-Garcia told the kneeling students, "was never meant to b bought, sold, pimped, or played." So began a long and looney lecture that shocked some students at the elit medical school and has led to calls for an investigation. Wearing a keffiye that covered her entire face, Gray-Garcia, a self-described "poverty scholar" led the class in chants of "Free, Free Palestine" as faculty and staff looke on in silence, according to people in the course and contemporaneous tex messages reviewed by the Free Beacon. One of the onlookers was Lindsay Wells, a pediatrician at UCLA and th director of the mandatory first-year course, "Structural Racism and Healt Equity". Wells did not respond to a request for comment. Gray-Garcia later referred to modern medicine as "white science" and inveighe against the "occupation of Turtle Island"-- that is, the United States- before asking students to stand for a second prayer. This time, nearl everyone rose. When one student remained seated, according to students in the class, a UCL administrator inquired about the student's identity, implying that disciplin could be on the table. "The net effect was that UCLA staff intimidated first-year medical student into participating in a religious service in derogation of their own persona beliefs," UCLA’s Jewish Faculty Resilience Group wrote to universit chancellor Gene Block on Sunday. "There needs to be an urgent and thoroug external review and investigation of the [medical school's] curriculum an systemic antisemitism." UCLA and Gray-Garcia did not respond to requests for comment. The course became the subject of a civil rights complaint in January after i separated students into race-based discussion groups-- one for white students another for African Americans, and a third for "non-black people of color" UCLA cancelled the exercise after a Wall Street Journal editorial highlighte the complaint.