Posted on 05/10/2023 5:24:08 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Whatever you had planned to do for the rest of the day, please drop it and read this right now: Heather Mac Donald's new book, "When Race Trumps Merit: How the Pursuit of Equity Sacrifices Excellence, Destroys Beauty, and Threatens Lives."
It seems that in the hysteria that followed George Floyd's death in 2020, we agreed to destroy all of Western civilization -- law, music, art, education, policing, science and medicine -- to make up for black people not doing well on standardized tests.
Mac Donald cites not hundreds but thousands of institutions that have flung aside standards in order to more fully dedicate themselves to the sole, driving purpose of our nation: boosting black people's self-esteem.
To consider just one arena, I don't think you're going to like the medical care you'll be getting under the new regime. Just like in the wildly successful Soviet Union, science must be subordinated to politics, specifically "racial justice."
The American Medical Association, the American Association of Medical Colleges and the American Association of Pediatrics (AAP) have all agreed that medicine is racist.
The New England Journal of Medicine "presents a nonstop stream of articles on such topics as the 'Pathology of Racism,' 'Toward Antiracist Allyship in Medicine,' and 'How Structural Racism Works -- Racist Policies as a Root Cause of U.S. Racial Health Inequities,'" Mac Donald writes.
And "Scientific American produced a 'special collector's edition' on 'The Science of Overcoming Racism.'"
(It's fantastic that scientific organizations are finally dedicating themselves to something important like racism, and not something boring, like cancer or Alzheimer's disease -- Unpack your privilege!)
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
“Civilization” is a spectrum. If you go below its lower end or above its higher one, it becomes barbarism. Are we there yet?
“its lower end or above its higher one” Define those terms.
Bring it on, i’m bored.
First, I gotta’ see gray hair in my doctors.
Let’s just get to the end of loud-mouthed political pundits
Good black doctors will hate how this turns out for them.
“Western Roman Empire: 99% literacy rate
Attila the Hun: can’t read or write.”
That is a faulty position to take because back then pretty much everyone was barbaric, at least by today’s standards.
Civilization is not stagnant; it evolves and devolves. Thus, it is relative.
We KNOW modern civilization has made some spectacular advances away from barbarism; but the problem is that mankind is, in general, just below the surface a barbarian.
Yep.
“Yeah, and I just gave you a relative comparison. Nevermind.”
No, you didn’t, because they were contemporaries. BOTH Attila and the Roman Empire were — by modern standards — barbaric. Now, if you had said that by today’s standards one was civilized and one was barbaric, you could have a point. Or, if you limited your argument to a specific area (say, for the sake of argument, art), you could also have a point.
It’s unfortunate that people from one time period are judged by those of another; but, that is the filter through which it is done.
Gawd this is truly frightening. And what about when this penetrates into aviation? And other professions where competence should be the only standard. The Air Force Academy has already tried some diversity-centric training with some of the cadets there. Unsuccessfully I might add.
Coulter’s breath still reeks of Bill Maher’s ****.
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There is such a thing as being too civilized. Too easy on crime for example, which helps no one but the criminals. The other end is being too Draconian.
That makes no sense.
Who defines literacy rate? Some Communist countries consider a person literate after 4th grade.
‘’ I maybe going to hell in a bucket but at least I’m enjoying the ride’’(apologies to Bob Weir).
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