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Someone just say the racist old man is a racist old man with racist views. But then they would be the target of attacks for "not being civil" to the racist. This country sucks.
Everyone needs to remember the Paradox of tolerance. Allowing intolerance will only breed more intolerance. Everyone should speak out and shine a light on it when they can.
Also don't forget Rush Limbaugh. He was a big advocate of 'civility' and 'politeness' but he absolutely did not consider racism, racist jokes, or telling someone they can't do something because of their race, to be uncivil or rude.
The republican who was a doctor ultimately caved in.
Makes you wonder what sort of scheme or threat they may have used to force that decision.
"Samudzi is concerned that a Kennedy appointment could result in policies that halt research and dismantle demonstrably proven health interventions."
I assumed it is already well-known that this is exactly the goal of his nomination.
What I really think America needs is an unqualified heroin addict that is a self proclaimed arm chair scientist.
Well would you rather have a DEI hire black doctor who has a GPA slightly less than a non-DEI white doctor? /s
This is what is known as scientific racism. The US has always been the world's #1 producer or it
It's just super old school racism is what it is. I'm talking like 17th century racism.
Creating Caucasians/Aryans remains the stupidest science. Bunch of hateful twits obsessed with bullshit like where Noah's Arc was and measuring their own heads. Filthy rotten fuckers, every one of them. Paved the way for shit like
A 2016 survey revealed that of 222 white American medical students and residents, nearly 60% thought Black people’s skin is thicker than white peoples, and 12% thought Black people’s nerve endings were less sensitive than those of white people.
jfc...
This is a huge problem, the stats are way worse for nurses as I recall. Even some textbooks still claim that black people have higher pain tolerance and need less medication. Black people are denied opioids and treated as “drug seeking” far more than white patients. They can have problems accessing treatment for opioid use disorders too.
In 2021, maternal mortality rates for black women were about 2.6 that of non Hispanic white women. Its not hard to see why.
Some of the dumbest people I've ever met have been doctors and nurses, the more the specialize the worse shit to, they are so hyper focused on their jobs they just fall into the stupidest shit.
As the old joke goes: what do you call the person who finishes last in their class at medical school? Doctor.
During Robert F Kennedy Jr’s Senate confirmation hearing on 30 January, Angela Alsobrooks, a Democratic senator from Maryland, pressed the nominee on his past claims that Black people have a stronger immune system than white people and thereby, should receive vaccines on a different schedule than them. “What different vaccine schedule would you say I should have received?” Alsobrooks, who is Black, asked the health secretary nominee. Kennedy then referenced a “series of studies” showing that “to particular antigens, Blacks have a much stronger reaction”.
I randomly rewatched The Help and one of the racist white ladies was talking about how black people have different germs. "How ridiculous," I thought. And yet here we are.
Again.
They were still telling students in med school as recent as the past 4 years that black ppl need less painkillers because we, "Tolerate pain better than other races."
Ppl surprised by this rhetoric haven't been paying attention
It’s well documented that black people get less care and are prescribed less painkillers because of this myth, as well as the racist assumption that block people seeking out pain relief are just after drugs
Pretty fucked up if they were teaching that despite a lack of evidence.
That said, the concept itself isn't completely far fetched... Red heads need more anesthesia than everyone else for some genetic reason. Another group needing less for genetic reasons seems plausible.
Redheads are probably less genetically diverse than the rest of the population, iirc it's mostly caused by a recessive gene. So if someone is a redhead, then the chances are high that they share other special genes with other redheads.
Africans on the other hand are more genetically diverse than people from other continents. It's possible that some African population groups require different levels of medications, but you won't be able to tell those population groups apart by the color of their skin.
Redheads need a lower opioid dose than the general population to achieve the same effect. At least those who are redheads because of a mutation in their MCR1 gene, which is about 75%, IIRC. Interestingly, the same mutation group also have worse tolerance of cold, which seems odd given that scotland is the global redhead centre!
Is it really too much to ask for Secretaries to at least have some experience or education in the industries they are the head of?
It's apparently too much to ask for Secretaries to not be super fucking racist.
Or super fucking rapists
That doesn't qualify you to be a Secretary - that qualifies you to be President.
It’s all in Project 2025. They’re purging everyone. Qualifications don’t matter, as long as you’re a Trump bootlicker.
the insistence on there being differences between the racists is central to Fascism.
they NEED it to be true to bolster their ideas and goals.
how it started with the jews back in the day.
Actually how it start with black people. Classical race science was invented to prove how black people had thicker skulls and felt less pain in order to excuse slavery.
Fun fact "The origin of species" is only half of the name of Darwins book. Don't ask about the other half.
Don't forget the "science" of things like drapetomania.
Yes, certain people who were actual medical professionals in their day argued that not wanting to be enslaved was a mental illness if you were black.
I mean, he already said covid was engineered not to be as bad for Jewish people. We knew who he was.
Elect Republicans, get racists.
Pretty simple.
RFK Jr is the embodiment of unscience. If there was ever a god of unscience RFK Jr would be its avatar.