The editorial board at Issues
and Insights examines some of the lethal consequences of going “woke”:
The Wages Of Woke Are Death
Going woke means more than, as the
saying says, going broke. It also means the ultimate loss of life. The grip of
wokeness on our society will eventually kill Americans.
Let’s begin with health care.
Medical school students, whose learning should be focused on the healing arts,
are being taught social justice ideology. Apparently, white supremacy,
oppression, and structural racism must be addressed by America’s doctors-to-be,
as well as the sin of being white.
Diversity, equity, and inclusion
studies are being required at some schools, which of course crowds out time
used in the past to acquire the knowledge and develop the skills needed to be a
good doctor. Politics have no place in medical schools, but there they are.
At the same time, some schools, as
many as 40, are dropping standardized testing for diversity’s sake, reports the
Daily Caller. The Medical College
Admission Test, which “determines
an individual’s ability to problem solve, think critically, and understand
concepts about medical study,” does not serve the purposes of the social
justice mafia. Now there are other legitimate academic avenues to medical
school outside the MCAT. But as we’ve seen in other institutions of higher
learning, standards designed to demonstrate and ensure competence are being
killed off.
Given these facts, it’s a certainty
that many of this country’s doctors of tomorrow and beyond will not have the
competence needed to keep patients alive and well. Americans will die or suffer
unnecessarily because wokeness demanded that the medical community marginalize
them.
Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, a former
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine professor and associate dean who
wrote “Take Two Aspirin and Call Me By My Pronouns,” says the ”quiet
woke revolution” that had been capturing medicine “erupted in spring 2020
into a full-blown revolution.”
One win for the woke insurgency is
the American Medical Association’s “Organizational Strategic Plan to Embed
Racial Justice and Advance Health Equity.” Goldfarb says that “unlike other
social justice programs, this program is lethal” and “will tangibly reduce the
quality of medical care, and almost every American will suffer its side
effects.” If medical schools “cut training time in biochemistry and
pharmacology for future doctors” to make room for studies that are political in
nature, someone is bound to die.
Then the editors put the field of engineering under the same microscope. Next they look at the military. And here are their conclusions:
Wokeness is winning because our
institutions have become cowardly and complicit; businesses are afraid they
will fall behind if they don’t score well on the Corporate Equality Index,
which is a Maoist extortion
racket that demands prescribed behavior from companies; and the
average American is scared of being ostracized and canceled for not just
uttering but even holding opinions the mob doesn’t like.
Unless and until we overcome our
fears, the malicious and depraved will continue their booted march through our
culture and our economy. No one should be frightened to say that a system based
on race, ethnicity, or gender over competence, intellect, and ability is
dangerous. It is in fact mortally dangerous.
The full editorial is here.
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