Posted on 08/24/2024 10:24:56 AM PDT by karpov
In the good old days of American education, professors could speak their minds freely. Disagreements would often result, with others disputing the case that the speaker had made. The solid consensus, however, was that academic freedom must never be curtailed, since intellectual progress depends on the exchange of ideas, just as John Stuart Mill had argued in On Liberty.
Perhaps the most disturbing trend in our colleges and universities today is the erosion of support for free speech. Professors who now take controversial positions have to worry about more than mere disagreement; they have to worry about punishment for having expressed “wrong” thoughts. A host of topics are now treated as sacred cows, where the official, establishment view may not be questioned. At the top of that list is “diversity.” Because of the intellectual fragility of the diversity obsession, its defenders usually respond to criticism not with reason but with punishments.
Norman Wang is a professor at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), where he has been on the faculty since 2008, specializing in cardiology. His troubles at the school began in March 2020, after he published an article in the Journal of the American Heart Association (JAHA) entitled “Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity: Evolving Race and Ethnicity Considerations for the Cardiology Workforce in the U.S. from 1969 to 2019.” The article had been reviewed and accepted in the usual process.
In it, Wang reviewed the history of racial preferences in medical schools, then argued that the current obsession with meeting group quotas to achieve “diversity” was both illegal (even before the Supreme Court’s 2023 ruling against racial preferences in SFFA v. Harvard) and ill-conceived as a measure to increase the number of minority doctors.
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This guy now feels the same as a runaway slave who thought he could escape, only to be tracked down by killer dogs
Diversity and multiculturalism are cancer.
No, he feels a great sense of moral power, the same as a runaway slave who stood up against the tyrannical lowlifes.
One would hope so, unlike Winston Smith, who came to love Big Brother as the bullet whizzed through his head.
Diversity does not include diversity of thought, equity does not extend to divergent thinkers, and inclusion does not mean toleration of contrary thought.
We all need excellent and caring doctors, nurses, and other medical professionals—irregardless of their ethnicities!
END racial quotas in the medical profession!
The medical schools should donate their woke administrators and teachers to science for experimentation on how this mutation to homo sapiens happened...
Lol.
He could become a societal cancer surgeon with a katana sword (the best of swords for the surgery).
Stay the hell away from doctors unless you actually break something or feel pain.
Preventative medicine is a giant scam. Check up doctors have 💰 💰 in their 👁️👁️.
There’s a great 11 year old interview on NPR, of all places, with a doctor who wrote a whole book about the racket of preventative medicine, and the gospel of “you need to get screened so you can catch it early”.
They’re like the car mechanics who find 10 things wrong with your car when you need to get a new inspection sticker.
No metal snakes going up my butt or down my throat! I don’t need a medical fortune teller to tell me if I’m in good health when I feel fine.
Winston Smith is a fictional character. This means he never existed.
All globalists, communists and other satanists choose to live in fiction instead of reality. This is both cause and effect of low IQ.
Very true, but Winston became the type of brain-dead soul who wept in the streets upon learning of Stalin’s death.
The takeaway is that when all the successes in your life are founded on fiction (as is the case with the global cabal), then your ultimate success will be failure.
Very wise!
I know whom I would go to if I need a cardiologist.
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