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Ever since the Supreme Court struck down systemic racism in college admissions, the systemic racism lobby has been up in arms. The real problem here isn’t that the Supreme Court jettisoned legal affirmative action, it’s that the majority of the public agrees with the decision. Including black people.
How to convince them otherwise? Announce that without affirmative action everyone will die.
The end of affirmative action will lead to more preventable deaths – The Hill
As a Black female physician, I’m basically a unicorn. We make up just 2.8 percent of doctors. Even before the Supreme Court decision banning affirmative action, this lack of diversity posed real harm for patients. This ruling will make a bad situation far worse. Outlawing affirmative action will decrease the diversity of incoming medical school classes and reduce the already low rates of physicians of color, with measurable harm to vulnerable patients. All Americans will bear the burden of a less diverse health care field and sicker citizens.
Selecting doctors based on merit rather than skin color will lead to healthier citizens. The ‘health care field’ doesn’t need to be diverse, it needs to be competent and qualified.
And Dr. Gipson has admitted that affirmative action wasn’t even working anyway.
Studies show that people who are underrepresented in medicine cannot achieve enough education or money to overcome the ills of systemic racism that lead to worse education and health outcomes.
So the solution is to give them worse health care?
Also shouldn’t some class in med school have taught Dr. Gipson the difference between causation and correlation?
Affirmative action ensures an increase in the diversity of the medical student pipeline, creating better physicians from all backgrounds and leading to better health outcomes for all patients.
Even assuming that black doctors produce better results for black patients that’s far from a “better health outcomes for all patients”. And even the former part remains quite dubious.
For instance, a 2021 study in Oakland found that racial concordance between patients and doctors increased patients’ interest in prevention
That’s not better medical care, it’s better patient behavior. If patients need a doctor of the same race to tell them to stop eating junk food, well that’s not a medical problem, it’s a counselling or outreach problem.
We don’t need to build a systemically racist health care system to cope with that.
For instance, a physician savvy enough to ask if a patient can afford healthy foods and medications could stave off a costly emergency department visit for a stroke.
That’s not the job of the doctor and there’s not much he can do about it if the patient can’t afford the food.
Dr. Gipson keeps confusing doctors with social workers. Selecting for diversity apparently not only leads to worse health care, but to less doctors staying in their lane and doing their job.
Without affirmative action, within a generation or so, you’ll be able to trust doctors (and other professionals) and not have to worry about HOW they got their advanced degrees. It’s always been easier to just avoid some doctors, as their was no way to know if they were AA generated, or actually qualified.
That is astounding nonsense. Will the public fall for it? Probably.
Pssst – We are all going to die – the only questions left are time, place and manner
You noticed, did you? But please be discreet in publicizing it; the common people might panic, you know.
The court has been just smacking down the leftists with their recent rulings and it gets worse for them each time it happens the left is painting itself into a corner
The Health care community needs to improve our health. That’s its one and only job.. All best-qualified job applicants to the front!
I feel like a broken record but how about improving earlier education for young people especially minorities? So that later they do qualify for advanced training in medicine or whatever field?
No, they cant do that or Democrats will lose their base of poorly educated, perennially angry voters who cant see through the scam. Quality of life of the next generation be damned!
The Democrats have also driven the best qualified people out of the education field, which makes it almost impossible to improve the system.
Yes. Like Cat, I am all for education, but education has changed – as you point out.
We used to think of a college education as the only way to improve economic status. That is not true. When we went to college, it was much higher quality and it was affordable. That is no longer true. Those who aspired to college and failed did so quickly and without much if any debt, allowing them to try their hands elsewhere. That is no longer true.
We need to return to the idea that college is not for everyone, and eliminate federal and state involvement in it. We must return to a culture that values all the work that makes civilization necessary and beautiful.
Yesterday I read a piece somewhere about college graduation rates after six years’ attendance (and six years’ student loan repayment debts’ accumulation). Something north of 40% of black students graduate after six years, and something between 60% and 70% of white students do. How does that square with the value of an education? Never mind that, how does it square with the bottom line for colleges, with their obscene tuition policies? A lifetime of debt servitude for nothing! Great public service, colleges!
All true and sensible. I’m with Mike Rowe. It’s better to own your own business than go to college.
The problem is cultural. Many are taught early by their peers, the msm, and even their parents and the woke education system that education is racist, “whiteness,” and to excel in it makes them a race traitor and an “oreo.” It’s better to hustle and get over on the system than to work and be productive. Raider culture over builder culture.
Thanks Cowboy! And the Raider culture is happy to destroy the buildings of the builder culture, it makes it easier for their herds to graze, for example. I think that’s the kind of mentality that has been passed down among them in their Raider culture. I was reading about what Sir Richard Burton wrote about them in 1850s Egypt, and it seemed consistent with the theory.
With Muslims it’s their goats. Raider culture at its highest. They turn fertile fields, as they found all over the Mediterranean basin, into desert in a few generations. And then they move on to the next target.
Even us old guys are liable to die from Affirmative Action. Pity the younger ones who face a lifetime of dealing with the consequences of Affirmative Action without being prepared intellectually to understand what it is.
They won’t know any better so they’re happy.
Thanks Una, this great culture of thousands of years that they inherited is disappearing, and they don’t even know it.
I am not picking on you, Algo. You always make me think, that’s all.
There is so much inter-generational hate now against the boomers (of which I am one) and I think it is justified.
The generations have an obligation to preserve, improve upon and hand down what was received to their progeny. Boomers had it all, but we largely failed to preserve it. Worse, we created most of the issues that make life more difficult for our progeny.
Of course there are outliers, and I do not mean to malign everyone.
Just like the Eloi, with their crumbling books.
The Eloi were supposed to be the descendants of the British aristocracy and elites, while the Morlocks were the descendants of the sweaty working class. The Morlocks weren’t hulking brutes as in the movies, though. They were small and simian in appearance, although definitely vicious creatures who preyed on the Eloi and ate them.
Wells was a socialist dipshit and hated so called capitalism, although I notice like most frauds, he benefited from it greatly. He kept all the money and property he earned. They all do.
I am a race realist. I gave birth to 5 white children under the care of a black Ob/Gyn and never thought about his race. He was simply the best doctor for women in my area. All the labor and delivery nurses went to him also.
He became a doctor before affirmative action in the “golden triangle” part of east Texas that includes “sundown” cities. I remember reading a sign as a child that said, “N***r, don’t let the sun go down on you in Vidor, Texas.” He started out as a hospital orderly in Beaumont, Texas.
He did not need affirmative action. He loved his work and was uniquely talented at helping women with our unique issues. We all adored and trusted him. God rest his soul.
No one thought he was anything but excellent. No one every thought he was an affirmative action doctor. No one cared about the color of his skin.
Sounds like you lucked out and found yourself a great doctor on the first try!
My Dr is great. Unlike every Dr I tolerated (barely) before him, he just prescribes whatever medication I ask for and doesn’t force me to waste time and money in worthless labs.