cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/30230
Virtually every major medical organization—from the American Medical Association (AMA) and the American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC) to the American Association of Pediatrics—has embraced the idea that medicine is an inequity-producing enterprise.
Thus forewarned, the reader plunges into a thicket of social-justice maxims: physicians must “confront inequities and dismantle white supremacy, racism, and other forms of exclusion and structured oppression, as well as embed racial justice and advance equity within and across all aspects of health systems.” The country needs to pivot “from euphemisms to explicit conversations about power, racism, gender and class oppression, forms of discrimination and exclusion.” (The reader may puzzle over how much more “explicit” current “conversations” about racism can be.) We need to discard “America’s stronghold of false notions of hierarchy of value based on gender, skin color, religion, ability and country of origin, as well as other forms of privilege.”
A key solution to this alleged oppression is identity-based preferences throughout the medical profession.
sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net 1 year ago
It's incredible, but when you start to think about it it makes sense: the English are fucked up, the West is fucked up, but it is still the best system in the world. The idea of meritocracy and equality in the sense of being able and go out and succeed regardless of who your parents were is in a lot of ways uniquely western, and it's something that westerners agree with and it helps in a lot of ways.
These people are trying to overwrite that old way of looking at things because if you decide people based on merit then you can't get ahead based on who your parents were, and these people want to establish a new aristocracy. They want to set someone that they support up as king, and they want to rule over the commoners.
Ask Thomas Sowell or supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, or republican candidate for governor of California Larry Elder what these people call you when you're black and you're not part of their aristocracy. Suddenly all this talk about anti racism seems to go out the window.
admin@exploding-heads.com 1 year ago
You describe what is going on perfectly