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Lancet: The Only Way To Stop Racism Is ‘To Eliminate Whiteness All Together’
Breitbart ^ | 1-12-2020 | Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.

Posted on 01/12/2020 1:26:00 PM PST by blam

The once prestigious Lancet medical journal has published a bizarre book review asserting that “white Americans continue to mobilise to maintain or extend the exclusive advantages whiteness offers those who can become white.”

The Lancet selected Rhea W. Boyd, a Minority Health Policy Fellow at Harvard’s School of Public Health, to review a 2019 book called Dying of Whiteness by Jonathan Metzl, whose thesis is that “right-wing backlash policies have mortal consequences — even for the white voters they promise to help.”

In his book, Metzl argues that white mortality is up in the United States ever since the 2016 election of Donald Trump, since in order to “maintain an imagined place atop a racial hierarchy,” white Americans who harbor “racial resentment” support policies that seem to limit the freedoms or resources available to non-whites, even though such decisions threaten their own wellbeing as well.

“From expansive gun legislation to broad divestment in government programmes, Metzl characterises white liberties that endanger white lives or imperil white futures as ‘dying of whiteness,’” Boyd observes.

While in her review Boyd fundamentally agrees with Metzl’s contentions, she believes that he is too soft on whites by attributing whites’ self-destructive white political actions to “racial resentment,” which “erases white agency through emotional euphemism.”

“At times, Metzl artfully articulates and historicises the racist origins of white interest in firearm fanaticism and ‘small government’ politics,” Boyd writes. “At others, he turns to ‘racial anxieties,’ racially charged ‘fears,’ or ‘racial resentment’ to describe white people’s political investment in white racial dominance.”

Boyd decries the “common practice” of mis-attributing “white self-destruction and violence to psychological states” or obscuring “the impacts of defending whiteness through emotional euphemisms.”

Drivers of white mortality such as suicide, chronic liver disease, and drug and alcohol poisoning have been described as...

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To: blam

Eliminating me, lol

Good luck bitch.


41 posted on 01/12/2020 2:59:21 PM PST by The Toll
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To: blam
So is the Lancet advocating genocide?
42 posted on 01/12/2020 3:02:59 PM PST by Savage Beast (The curse of intelligence is having to watch the morons try everything you know won't work.)
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To: blam

FINAL SOLUTION?

libs showing their true core.


43 posted on 01/12/2020 3:06:08 PM PST by epluribus_2 (He, had the best mom - ever. my)
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To: blam
Rhea Boyd, MD FAAP: Office of Diversity and Inclusion, Harvard Univ. https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/diversity/rhea-boyd/

More from her review:

The real population that has been left behind are blacks, she argues, but the difference is that blacks have consistently supported policies that benefit everyone while whites only support policies that benefit themselves.

I can think of one policy that has clearly benefited Dr. Boyd: affirmative action.
44 posted on 01/12/2020 3:07:33 PM PST by nicollo (I said no!)
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To: Rashputin

“The author has obviously never been good enough pals with black folks to hear them damn near come to blows over dark vs. light Kneeegrows.”

Looking at her profile photo at Harvard, it appears the author is an African American. https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/diversity/rhea-boyd/


45 posted on 01/12/2020 3:09:35 PM PST by Soul of the South (The past is gone and cannot be changed. Tomorrow can be a better day if we work on i)
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To: blam

Lancet is right.
https://video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?fr=yhs-arh-001&hsimp=yhs-001&hspart=arh&p=white+like+me+snl+skit#id=1&vid=8dab4850a5cec397cdde9930b2e0867f&action=click


46 posted on 01/12/2020 3:13:02 PM PST by Captain Compassion (I'm just sayin')
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To: blam
i suggest we eliminate Rhea W. Boyd
47 posted on 01/12/2020 3:13:20 PM PST by Chode (Send bachelors and come heavily armed.)
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To: blam

So the only way to eliminate racism is to be murderously racist.

Got it.


48 posted on 01/12/2020 3:15:06 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Democrats only believe in democracy when they win the election.)
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To: blam

When I was young I thought that racial divides would disappear when humans eventually bred across racial lines to the point that we were all essentially the same color.

That of course won’t happen because humans are tribal. And despite all appearances, that tribalism goes much deeper than color. It doesn’t even require a difference in “color”.


49 posted on 01/12/2020 3:36:00 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s........you weren't really there)
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To: blam

We’ve always had kooks like this. But the difference now is that on the left they are not fringe, they are mainstream.

That is scary and suggests we are in serious danger.


50 posted on 01/12/2020 3:37:52 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s........you weren't really there)
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To: bert

I have found diversity to be fine, those times that it actually adds something.


51 posted on 01/12/2020 3:47:08 PM PST by Agatsu77
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To: blam

“More from her review:

The real population that has been left behind are blacks, she argues, but the difference is that blacks have consistently supported policies that benefit everyone while whites only support policies that benefit themselves.”

??? What!!???


52 posted on 01/12/2020 3:48:49 PM PST by Agatsu77
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To: blam

Of course we could eliminate the half of the equation as a matter of consideration and its application would be a better outcome for all involved.


53 posted on 01/12/2020 4:07:09 PM PST by Jumper
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To: nicollo

Dumb, blind and ignorant takes quite a while to accomplish. But racist is when you combine the three and add color to the picture.


54 posted on 01/12/2020 4:12:05 PM PST by Jumper
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To: blam

14 year old black boy murdered today in Atlanta. Killed by whiteness? Nope. And it happens almost daily.


55 posted on 01/12/2020 4:27:24 PM PST by Midwesterner53
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To: blam

Meet the racist b!tch herself! Rheatard W. Boyd

56 posted on 01/12/2020 4:48:27 PM PST by Bommer (2020 - Vote all incumbent congressmen and senators out! VOTE THE BUMS OUT!!!)
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To: EvilCapitalist

But are you actually white?
Home Depot’s Behr color smart app says my skin tone is more of a S200-4, Chestnut Bisque.


57 posted on 01/12/2020 5:27:23 PM PST by philetus (Keep doing what you always do and you'll eventually get what you deserve)
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To: blam

This is is just pure racism disguised as anti-racism.


58 posted on 01/12/2020 5:45:26 PM PST by Crucial
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To: blam

They cry wolf and I am sick of it and them, don’t like it here leave!


59 posted on 01/12/2020 5:54:14 PM PST by ronnie raygun (nick dip .com)
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To: blam

I seem to remember seeing statistics that showed whites committing suicide at higher rates just after O’Zero got into office-gee, I wonder why? I know that more and more whites are going to jail for drug convictions, putting the lie to rest that “minorities” are hardest hit.


60 posted on 01/12/2020 6:18:03 PM PST by Amberdawn (Want To Honor Our Troops? Then Be A Citizen Worth Fighting For.)
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