Posted on 01/14/2024 5:53:44 AM PST by MtnClimber
The “Chief Diversity Officer” at Johns Hopkins Medicine has already retracted, disavowed and apologized for a privilege “hit list” that scapegoated white people, heterosexuals, Christians, men, and others in a newsletter that went viral this week.
The X account @EndWokeness on Wednesday drew attention to a “Diversity Word of the Month” article in the January 2024 issue of Monthly Diversity Digest from the school’s Diversity, Inclusion, and Health Equity (DEI) office, headed by Chief Diversity Officer Dr. Sherita H. Golden.
“John Hopkins just sent out this hit list of people automatically guilty of ‘privilege’ whether they know it or not,” @EndWokeness wrote.
John Hopkins just sent out this hit list of people automatically guilty of "privilege" whether they know it or not:
-Males -Whites -Christians -Mid-aged people -Able-bodied people -Middle & owning class -English-speaking people
This message was emailed directly to employees… pic.twitter.com/xor1wjo17B
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) January 10, 2024
“Privilege is an unearned benefit given to people who are in a specific social group. Privilege operates on personal, interpersonal, cultural and institutional levels, and it provides advantages and favors to members of dominant groups at the expense of members of other groups,” Monthly Diversity Digest asserted, adding, “In the United States, privilege is granted to people who have membership in one or more of these social identity groups: White people, able-bodied people, heterosexuals, heterosexuals, males, Christians, middle or owning class people, middle-aged people, and English-speaking people.”
The article continued: “Privilege is characteristically invisible to people who have it. People in dominant groups often believe they have earned the privileges they enjoy or that everyone could have access to these privileges if only they worked to earn them. In fact, privileges are unearned and are granted to people in the dominant groups whether they want those privileges or not, and regardless of their stated intent.”
The post went viral Wednesday afternoon, with many critics expressing shock that the once respected and revered John Hopkins had stooped to such an appalling and inane level of discourse.
The backlash prompted Golden to release a statement on Thursday completely retracting and disavowing the privilege list. After thinking about it, the diversity officer said she realized the wording in the newsletter was not “inclusive” at all but was in fact “exclusionary and hurtful.”
“The newsletter included a definition of the word ‘privilege’ which, upon reflection, I deeply regret. The intent of the newsletter is to inform and support an inclusive community at Hopkins, but the language of this definition clearly did not meet that goal. In fact, because it was overly simplistic and poorly worded, it had the opposite effect of being exclusionary and hurtful to members of our community,” Golden wrote.
“I retract and disavow the definition I shared, and I am sorry. I will work to ensure that future messages better reflect our organizational values.”
Johns Hopkins Medicine said in a statement to Deseret News that the newsletter had contradicted the values of the institution.
“The January edition of the monthly newsletter from the Johns Hopkins Medicine Office of Diversity, Inclusion and Health Equity used language that contradicts the values of Johns Hopkins as an institution. Dr. Sherita Golden, Johns Hopkins Medicine’s Chief Diversity Officer, has sincerely acknowledged this mistake and retracted the language used in the message,” a spokesperson said.
The old if you inferior blame it on the so called privileged song.
They only logical place DEI ends up is fueling hate towards straight-white-Christian-males and making them an EXCLUDED group. This renders the entire concept null and void. You can’t be inclusive by carving out characteristics of groups of people and telling them they’ve done something wrong just by the definition of what they were born as - that they’re not part of ‘inclusive’.
Also, I find it specifically interesting that ‘Christian’ is on the list. One isn’t ‘born into being Christian’, it’s a choice and a sacrifice - how is that ‘privilege’? Technically, there’s more Muslims than Christians - so why isn’t Muslim in the list?
We all know why. This is nothing more than an attack on western culture. The real hatred is for everyone that built modern society, to remove it from those that built it, and to transfer the wealth from them. It must destroy that foundation - which is straight-white-Christian-males.
When white kids are being bulled in the school playground because of their ‘whiteness’, and respective ‘automatic deserved guilt’, it exposes the natural result. Hate. Just because adults in corporate America aren’t going to physically assault each other, it doesn’t mean that the sentiment and equivalent effects won’t happen.
HR departments might be teaching this nonsense (ironic because they’re almost all women, no diversity) but when it translates to promotions based on minority status, along with the authority that goes with it, you’ll obviously see lower overall effectiveness. The company loses. Unless they’re willing to collectively lose together, it can only be short term - until they see the problems and the fight to survive forces them to stop the insanity. Which seems to be where we’re at.
DEI was a luxury when the economy was better. It’s an obvious millstone around the neck at this point.
She needs to be fired.
Today.
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She’s not sorry for what she said. She’s sorry she got caught saying it. That’s a very big difference. It still reveals her way of thinking and the actual operational methodology of her department.
What gets me is that this type of thinking is not new at all. This has been going on in corporate America for years - it just didn’t have a label like DEI. The HR departments of corporate America have been taken over by thinkers such as her, along with the extreme leftwing feminazis, homosexuals, etc. As someone who matches all nine of the descriptors on this list, I can tell you that I didn’t stand a chance of getting rehired in the corporate world when my existing position was eliminated in 2008. I could go into an HR department for an interview (for a position for which I was very well qualified) and feel the disdain floating in the room... My interview was just a formality to show that they were “interviewing all possible candidates.” There was never, ever, a single individual in the HR departments that shared even one of the nine traits on this list. It hadn’t been like that when I started my career. It didn’t take me long to realize that my chances of resuming my existing line of work was non-existent. So, I took another career path that drew upon my knowledge gained in my LEO/Military career, and went back to work. I’m still doing it 3-4 days a week, and I don’t have to deal with that corporate garbage.
They can take their DEI and shove it so far that even the best protologist couldn’t remove it. I’ve worked hard my entire life, and nobody has given me anything. In fact I’ve had to continuously guard against being shorted on my salaries and promotions due to the transition of what had been good HR departments into the woke DEI machines that they’ve become.
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Funny how she is promoting celebrating MLK Day as he is the one that said to see people by the content of their character and not the color of their skin.... or something like that. :)
OK, gather round folks, now we do the two minutes of hate toward MtnClimber.....grrrrrrr!
I bet a lot of middle-aged, heterosexual, English-speaking, more or less Christian, black males don’t feel very privileged.
They better get with the homo/trans/communist agenda or go to the back of the bus.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzAAPNIsxB0
This horrible story is all one family and John Hopkins All Children's Hospital. Be ready to be shocked beyond belief.
Fuck them all. You want my privilege come and take it.
Friggin’ “colleges” and “universities” are worthless except for when you need an “A” or “extra credit”. “Gurlz Gone Wild” spring breaks ain’t bad either, I guess.
The whole 'WOKE' thing is madness. NO MORE UNQUALIFIED PEOPLE PLACED IN POSITIONS OF POWER BASED ON KINK, KOLOR OR KIN (NEPO) (RICH DADDY)
She has adopted the Democrat existential strategy of Kissing Black Ass.
It is not really a bad gambit. She is attempting to convert some of the Afro Heritage Minority-Majority plantation slave voters to become free Afro Heritage Minority-Minority voters.
It really is a good strategy because the tactic works in two ways. The votes add to her total while subtracting from the Democrat total. The major added benefit that it doesn’t take a shift of very many and that shift produces the end of the Democrat party.
The Black vote is absolutely existential for the Democrats. They are keenly aware of that fact and spend untold amounts of treasure and effort Kissing Black Ass.
If an organization must be destroyed put a college educated black woman in charge.
-PJ
Someone printed what she believes. “How dare they”
Hopefully there is some deep pocket lightening rod to put the screws to another racist organization.
Damn, I’m guilty of all charges. In theory she is guilty of speaking English, but I have not heard her speak, so it’s not a slam dunk she speaks proper English.
In the interest of inclusivity, you are hereby forever banned from membership in polite society.
As am I.
A tactical retreat. Wait’ll after the election.
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