Race as a reliable indicator.
An article published last week in the New England Journal of Medicine argues that medical students should be segregated based upon race during their education in order to better facilitate anti-racist medicine.
The article entitled “Racial Affinity Group Caucusing in Medical Education — A Key Supplement to Antiracism Curricula,” written by faculty and administrators at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine, contends that separating White and Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) medical students into racial affinity group caucuses (RAGCs) can play an essential “part of a broader antiracism and anti-oppression curriculum.”
Because of the “legacies of colonialism and racism” in medical training that have “historically centered White learners,” the authors of the article argue that extant medical school structures are “retraumatizing” for BIPOC students. […]
“In a space without White people, BIPOC participants can bring their whole selves, heal from racial trauma together, and identify strategies for addressing structural racism,” the article states.
Well, at least they’re capitalizing White now. I suppose that means something.
As a medical person….. NUTS!
Yes, imagine a brave new medical world where the patient knows immediately which doctors met lower training standards, because that’s what that word salad is really saying.
Imagine a medical journal that uncritically published this. Then go back and look at what they published about gun control, weed, Covid, hydroxychloroquin, ranitidine, statins, etc. and so forth.
Actually … the medical journal perfectly addressed my ongoing concern that NONE of my current Doctors in my Health Plan … “look like me”. None. I have ZERO White Doctors. So … why is that? Doctors of color work cheaper? One of my specialists is referred to as “Doctor C” … by everyone from Receptionist to Nurses. Why? Because her Sanskrit name is literally unpronounceable with more syllables than Fentanyl crossing our border.
And I haven’t seen a White, MALE, Doctor anywhere in the building since about 2003.
Sadly, we have to live in a world populated by nuts, like you.
You just can’t be cynical enough to parody our Progressive Comrades.
Finding a mindset so retarded beggars the imagination.
They are so shallow in their thinking that they reside in a mental desert.
Their premise,if treated logically..
Such triggered nitwits ,who must be segregated to protect them while training..(And these twerps call us racist)..are then expected to provide medical services to a population that is still over 80% White..
Who wants medical advice from a poor coloured person,who is having an attack of the vapours because their patient is too white?
Who is going to be treating who?
Is it just me?
Or does the concept of a Doctor blinded by skin colour seem absurd and extremely dangerous for its patients?
Will this Doctors diagnosis all be as superficial?
Treating only what shows on the surface?
And in Can Ah Duh,this will be the only Doctor you are permitted,as our Parasitic Overload fly abroad for their own medical services..
Fine with me. Do it. I had my Scott Adams’ epiphany in 1992 watching some people doing something to Reginald Denny.
So that’s what the new slavery will look like.
I’m just guessing that East Asian (and possibly Indian as well) students will raise their collective hands and say “we’re with the Whites on this”. It won’t be good times for the ambitious and good Black doctors who will suffer the stigma.
Affirmative action has done nothing but call into question EVERY black professional’s qualifications. Every truly gifted, smart, reliable, and competent black graduate is tainted by affirmative-action. Sad, because there are PLENTY of competent blacks who never needed affirmative-action.
So can we then request White doctors when in hospital or clinical setting?… You know..the doctors who got the white medical training?
Or is THAT racist?
It’s racist if blacks ask for white doctors!
They already do that. They know the score, right?
I DEMAND a Doctor … who looks like me. White.
Because of what Scott Adams observed … that the MAJORITY of black people don’t believe Whites deserve to live … you can see why I worry about the “care” I will receive from a black Doctor. Literally … the odds are against me.
Once you accept the progressive piety of affirmative action (reverse discrimination) AKA – the soft racism of lowered expectations, then where else can you go in academia to advance the pathology but the further entrenched racism (“under new management” – Thomas Sowell) of CRT. Reason 689 to not encourage your kids to go to such institutions.
Are Canadians Americans? No, not entirely. We share some cultural traditions, but have our own unique history.
It is time that we started not paying attention to and importing terrible ideas from the USA (with their excessive slavery guilt neurosis) and WHO.
Sounding more and more like the messages that came out of Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines in Rwanda in 1993/94
Can I just say that Dr. Benjamin Carson made his accomplishments WITHOUT this sort of crap?
And he would be appalled by this.
His Prayer Breakfast speech was about this kind of racism.
I have had the option of going to non-white African doctors for years. Instead I wait for whitie. I will not risk my health knowing that my doctor could be an affirmative action moron or a graduate of Robert Mugabe University. I say this fully aware that there are many excellent black doctors but the brand has been tainted. Is self-preservation racist?
Affirmative Action has been around for a long time.
And not just about POC.
From here it looks as though the racists of old were just slightly ahead of their time.
Today they may be hailed as champions of good.
It’s mind boggling.
If you remember, it was a standard procedure in South Africa.
How were they bad?
Is the house doctored ?
In two or three hundred years in the US, will there be whitey demanding reparations from POC’s for racism?
Vito says it’s mind boggling, I suggested in a post in the thread about Mass Transit two above this one, that we’ve been so badly boggled in the last few years by EVERYTHING, that there is no boggle left to use. So, when should we attend the funeral for collective sanity?
Out: Coloured People
In: People of Colour
No, it’s not the same, you racist.
In: Asians … AAPI
Out: Orientals
Oriental is a style of packaged foods … please make. Note of it
Oriental is also a rug. Please make note of it.
Persian is a rug … and a people.
But you already knew that
You should always use the term People of Coloured People. That way you cover all your bases. It’s all about including everyone.
I am just waiting for that medical trauma that kills me, as I know there will be no one there to react in a way that could possibly remediate the problem. The government is the problem. Socialized medicine is the problem. Has anyone made the connection yet?
I hear most of the big animal vets are still white.
Make some connections with your local horse doctor and bring an apple.
They’re having problems keeping the good docs who happen to be BIPOCs working in the BIPOC community. People who do very well at med school tend to take offers at richer, “racist” med facilities.
If they can start segregating out “black docs” and “white docs” in school, they can keep more of the good docs in their communities.
Most “anti-racist” action is actually devoted to quashing real market forces that pop up in reaction to their initial “anti-racist” actions.
Back to the 50’s when many thought segregation based on color was a good thing! I can’t imagine the “other than white world” think this is a good idea! A race to the past when it was thought that “ people of color” were inferior and could not compete. Is this idiocy where woke has taken us?
Yeah, you lost me at ‘New England Journal of Medicine’. As someone else has already pointed out, they became a laughingstock years ago.