Guest Post by Ann Coulter
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!)
The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) aired a podcast in 2021 in which the deputy editor, Edward Livingston, suggested that inequities in medical care be addressed without accusing doctors of “racism.” Both he and JAMA’s editor in chief were promptly denounced and fired, the editor replaced with a black woman.
Black leaders now head the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, the Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Center, the University of Chicago Comprehensive Cancer Center, the University of Pittsburgh Division of Medical Hematology/Oncology, the Wake Forest School of Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University’s School of Pharmacy, the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, the Massey Cancer Center at VCU, the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and the Department of Medicine at UCLA’s medical school.
What could go wrong? Most of America’s largest cities have black mayors, and everything is fine.
But at least your doctor will be able to diagnose your disease correctly and you won’t die on the operating table, right? … RIGHT? (Anybody else remember the affirmative action doctor who took Allan Bakke’s place at the University of California Medical School at Davis and ended up killing his patients?)
In 2021, Mac Donald writes, “the average score for white applicants on the Medical College Admission Test was in the 71st percentile … The average score for black applicants was in the 35th percentile — a full standard deviation below the average white score.”
Naturally, therefore, medical schools responded by dropping the MCAT for black and Hispanic students, offering them admission on the basis of their “strong appreciation of human rights and social justice,” as the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai puts it.
Things don’t get better at medical school, where black students again score a full standard deviation below white and Asian students on Step One of the United States Medical Licensing Exam (USMLE). This is the test given after the second year of medical school to evaluate students’ knowledge of anatomy, biochemistry, pharmacology, physiology and so on. It is multiple-choice and graded by computer.
Conclusion: The computer is racist. In January 2022, the USMLE dropped grades for Step One altogether and converted it to pass/fail.
On one hand, no one will get a bad grade. On the other hand, there will be no way to distinguish one medical student from another, whether black, white or Asian. Research laboratories, residencies, hospitals and medical centers, like the Mayo Clinic, will just have to roll the dice. (Playing hide-and-seek with the most promising scientific minds should turbo-charge medical discoveries!)
Luckily, learning to identify and treat disease isn’t such a big deal at today’s medical schools, anyway. Instead, the faculty are charged with teaching about “systems of power, privilege and oppression.” More than half of the top 50 medical schools now require students to take courses in systemic racism, Mac Donald notes. I’m sure that will be a huge relief when doctors miss your brain tumor.
In 2021, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute announced that it would spend $2 billion … to find a cure for brain cancer? Parkinson’s disease? Heart disease? NO!!! The $2 billion would go to promoting “diversity and inclusion in science.”
In 2022, the National Cancer Institute, funded by you, taxpayer, decided to change its mission from conquering cancer — and really, who cares about that? FIRST WORLD PROBLEMS! — to guess what? Yes!!! Promoting diversity! Instead of Outstanding Investigator Awards being granted solely on the basis of merit, the gender and race of the researchers would have to be considered.
All this has done wonders for the morale of doctors. Mac Donald quotes one cancer researcher: “It’s the end of the road for me as a Jewish male doctor.” A UCLA doctor told her that the smartest undergraduates in science labs are saying, “Now that I see what is happening in medicine, I will do something else.”
In response to this dystopic future, Mac Donald asked an oncologist, “When would white and Asian male scientists fight back? How much longer would they continue to allow their hard work and accomplishments to be disparaged and sidelined?”
He emailed back: “We value our jobs. We need our jobs. Our peers will turn on us. Speak out, lose job forever, be quickly forgotten and abandoned.”
That’s why, Mac Donald says, it falls to the rest of us to never shut up about the tearing down of standards, to put forth “unapologetic defense(s) of color-blind standards,” and to “relentlessly provide the data that explain the lack of racial proportionality in meritocratic institutions.”
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14% of the US population, 90% of tv com actors, half of the people on the tv shows.
They get jobs running things, but mostly it’s their assistants who.do the actual work, I’ve seen it over the years, it’s probably much worse now.
They want a race war, good luck with that. 14% of the population, good luck with that.
12% at most. Was 13%. 3 million illegals have entered the country in the last 2 years. Blacks are being displaced by Hispanics.
blacks in places like LA and Chicago have been getting ‘displaced’ by wetbacks for years … whole communities in LA that were once black are now filled with wetbacks — the LA Times ran an article or so several years ago about how the wetback gangs would go into the black communities at night — firebomb the apartments — and then shoot the tenants as they came running out …
As for the number of invaders since Joe Bidet began haunting the White House on January 20, 2021, we were told in April of that year by his cuban jew in charge of immigration to expect at least 18,000 per day … that’s more than 6.5 million per year … for more than 2 years … total is more like 13 million — and that’s what the government admits to US …
If your numbers are correct, that would put recent illegals at 4% of the population and reduce blacks to only around 10%.
I remember in 1980 or thereabouts reading of a White Paper by the CIA that predicted that the population of mexico would grow by more than 60 million between 1980 and 2000 … and that at least 1/3 of that increase would illegally invade the US …
We’ve now got well north of 65+ million mexicans in the US … their invasion started in earnest with LBJ’s ‘immigration law’ in 1965 …
As for blacks … more than 48% of all of the 64+ million abortions in the US since Roe v. Wade have been on unborn black children … and some liberal pundits have even gone so far as to say that that’s the only reason that black crime in the US isn’t sky high … almost 30 million of them have been eliminated …
I know, right? They’re so friggin stoppid that they are all in on the Democrats and Zhou Biden, Biden’s a Pflagrant racist yet they put him in office, and the Democrats are importing millions of people who will suck the tit that they need to survive dry, putting Nuevo Americans ahead of them on the social ladder going to replace them before they get to the Why people can’t, after all it can’t be all takers and no makers, someone needs to pay for all the social benefits that they are giving to las Nuevo Democrats
Reminded me of the closing statement in the article “The Truth About Generation Snowflake is Even Worse Than We Feared”….
And when this condition is at its rifest among the professional classes – doctors, teachers, lawyers, accountants, architects, civil servants – who have graduated from university and basically run society. The only advice I can give is to hold on to your hat – because things are about to get interesting, and not in a good way.
B_MC- I like a real challenge, keeps you on your toes. I hope thing are more interesting because from where I sit, we have been on a trail of stupid unsurpassed in history.
Yes.
Ann, you know that the Wakandan paradise is just around the corner, yes?
The brochures say paradise but being from the deep south where every day is Wakandan hell, I’m suspect.
That’s just a flesh wound. He be ok.
It’ll buff out
Somebodies decided that since no one’s getting anywhere with research on anything other than jabbing newborns with the latest greatest mRNA or how the majority of Drs would rather continue making payments on the beach house than actually practice informed consent, those somebody’s rightfully concluded that doctoring could easily be dumbed down without anyone noticing.
An overactive sense of self-esteem will lead to head shrinking from that demographic.
Never ever trust a nigger. If they don’t kill you intentionally they will do it mistakenly.
That’s just wrong.
SOME are worthless,
SOME are evil.
It’s the GOVT where it is not SOME trying to kill you, it’s ALL!
(in case you haven’t noticed MOST of GOVT Leaders Light skinned)
During the George Floyd riot in Minneapolis, a factory burned down called ‘7-Sigma’. They produced life-like mannequins for rescue training, one of which was uncannily similar to George Floyd. Of course there is no evidence now other than old screen shots, and I don’t know how to post pics on here. But at the time they had a Facebook page with dozens of samples of these life-like dummies.
Floyd was a crisis actor on some level. Either a drug addict already on his death bed, or a bait-and-switch that never made it to the grave site. The whole episode was just Trayvon Martin 2.0, designed to extract maximum racial narrative mileage for TPTB.
Derek Chauvin made some statement at the time of his conviction about there being more to the story that would come out later. I haven’t anything more about that since. He’s supposedly in Oak Park Heights prison – in solitary 23 hours a day. I may have ways to try to validate that.
Chauvin was railroaded in a most disgusting manner. He’ll spent the rest of his life wondering why he’s in prison and St. Floyd is memorialized.
How tragic a story. Truly horrible.
This might be ignored. I don’t know where to post this but I’m furious. Where the fuck was she when “her” city was burning under her watch. Saw the headline and was hoping it wasn’t Beetlejuice.
https://resistthemainstream.com/lori-lightfoot-declares-state-of-emergency/?utm_source=newsletter1
Like so many vaccine pushers with unproven sciency stuffs , now all saying :
” Mistakes were made on both sides , lets not blame each other and forget it ”
NO. We warned you. We TOLD you what would happen !
Niggers make great communists.
Niggers don’t make great anything…and the white ones are the worst.
Bottom line: Make sure your doctors are old and white or Asian.
Or you can simply ask him/her should you take the jab.
jordan peterson has really let himself go
I guess they think because of athleticism they could win a race war, they forget who owns the vast majority of guns(and they don’t hold the gun sideways either.)
Divide and conquer
Choose to live in the real world and you will.
Decide to keep up the charade and live with whatever that you get.
Pretty simple. It doesn’t require an M.D. to be able to discern the difference between good and evil, healthy and sick, capable and fraudulent. We’ve just had such a long run of ease and indolence we’ve gotten fat and lazy, time to knock that off.
Or not, the choice is ours.