Posted on 05/09/2022 4:43:54 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The antiracist movement wants more than just legitimacy. It wants unimpeachable scientific authority.
A few years ago, concepts such as “white supremacy,” “systemic racism,” and “structural intersectionality” were not the standard fare of prestigious medical journals. But a February special issue of Health Affairs, the Washington, D.C.-based peer-reviewed journal, analyzes racial health disparities not through biology, behavior, or culture, but through the lens of “whiteness,” along with concepts such as power, systems of oppression, state-sanctioned violence, and critical race praxis—a sampling of terms that appear in the issue.
The Health Affairs special issue reflects the effort of “antiracist” scholars to transform concepts still considered speculative and controversial—and some say unprovable—into scientific fact. It is being advanced by other high-profile publications as well, including the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association, and Scientific American, which last year published articles entitled “Modern Mathematics Confronts Its White, Patriarchal Past” and “Denial of Evolution Is a Form of White Supremacy.”
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In a Health Affairs paper titled “The Intellectual Roots of Current Knowledge on Racism and Health,” researchers from Harvard University and the University of Maryland identify “the critical need for paradigmatic shifts that incorporate racism as a driver of inequities,” noting that “scientific language has the power to encourage normative standards.” Those pushing the effort expect that it will take years to build up a knowledge base and critical mass of scholarly research. If successful, it would empower the antiracist movement with what advocates expect to be recognized as unimpeachable scientific authority.
According to researchers with this perspective, racial inequalities in lifespans, health, income, and other metrics largely result from one cause: cultural norms and unconscious beliefs that privilege whites and males at the expense of groups that lack power and are oppressed.
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Racism under the guise of antiracism.
Big Med is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Deep State, Inc.
Everyone of every skin color is at risk because of that.
It’s easy. You just say no to white people a lot. Like when only blacks and Hispanics could get monoclonal treatment.
A couple of inconvenient truths:
- black women have long had a greater life expectancy in the US than white men,
- Hispanic men and women have the greatest life expectancies of all demographics in the US.
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6335a8.htm
Not a geneticist here but I’ve taken a class on the subject, so while not an expert but can get my way around conversations.
I first noticed the divergence from true science in relationship to genetics when scientific American published an article claiming race was an illusion. They used quite a bit of technical terms but at the end I thought it was a farce and PC hogwash.
How can anyone deny the existence of race in humans while acknowledging the legitimacy of animal husbandry and developing breeds, a process used for thousands of years? I mean would these same scientists say there was no difference in a Great Dane and a Rat Terrier or a Leghorn Hen and a Buff Orpington?
Another turning point in my mind was the shameful treatment of the great James Watson who was forced out of his University position after daring to speculate there might be a connection between race and inherent IQ potential.
(As a reminder Watson was the co-scientist with Crick who discovered the Structure of the DNA molecule. Basically one of the most important scientific discoveries of all time)
True science is under attack more now than since the days when Galileo Galilei was sentenced to life under house arrest for speculating the Earth was not central to the solar system.
“2+2 = 5, citizen.”
Just to pick out one of the idiocies named in the article, the only “state-sanctioned violence” I have seen is governments, not just the central, feral government but also some of the state and locals ones as well, ignoring BurnLootMurder and Antifa atrocities.
We have illegitimate governments.
Evry body shuld be abel to becom a brane surjin!
I’d prefer “systematic racism” over Woke douchebags prattling on and on about systematic racism.
People who’ve got time to feel oppressed over place named, inanimate objects and quirks they even describe as “micro-aggressions” are not oppressed in any way, shape or form.
Racist and Racism are political terms used as cudgels to swat opposition. Opposition to black politicization of the City States is ordinary run of the mill politics. Opposition to the Black carpet bagging Georgia Senator is politics, not racism
The antithesis is support for Afro-Heritage minority-minority candidates
First I assume you are denying the existence of race, subspecies?
On animal husbandry I am referring to breeds or animals that when mated with each other produce offspring which are remarkably similar and have the same identifying traits of that group.
Example. A Border Collie when mated with other will almost always produce a certain medium sized dog with general color patterns and has an inherent instinct even untrained as a pup to “herd”. They were acquired after untold generations of selectively choosing traits.
Human races or “breeds” developed over enormous periods of time by natural selection and when mated with each other produce children with remarkable similarity of said identifying traits. According to all substantive and academic schools (scientific) there have long been 4 identified races:
Caucasoid
Negroid
Mongoloid
Aboriginal (some say not)
New races or breeds could be developed either naturally or selectively (example as some are now identifying Hispanic as separate).
Good god man I’m speaking of basic scientific and accepted common knowledge that has been recognized for thousands of years.
Source, including identifying characteristics:
Well of course there is going to be a graduation scale between races, for example in Central Asia the people are more of a blend between Caucasoid and Mongolid.
No I meant Australian Aboriginals.
I don’t personally feel Hispanics are a separate group, rather mostly an offshoot of Caucasian. However I’ve read some in the “La Raza” movement are making that argument.
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