Whenever I hear “people who look like me” I get irked-why? Because I am a white, female, middle class Minnesota RN who worked in county community health for 16 years-over 70% of the patients I served were not Caucasian , they weren’t college educated, the were not from Minnesota. Aside from the fact that I spoke Spanish, I definitely stuck out. According to the media, I would be unable to make a difference-but I made a huge difference! Patients asked for me, sent me cards and flowers, they thanked me sometimes with tears in their eyes! I felt so appreciated! So yeah, it didn’t matter that I wasn’t Hispanic or I didn’t wear a burka or I wasn’t Black. I was just me. That’s it.
Hospital administrators depend almost entirely on government funding to get their salaries and benefits, sooooooo ... they will cave and deny the request even though the request is not reasonable but likely in the best interest of the patient.
Yes, we constantly hear about this in the Medical profession-patients want a provider that looks like them. Well with all the different insurance plans, good luck with that. And besides, doesn't competence trump diversity?
Richard Bickers describes it best in his comment here so I will simply add that federal legislation and policy has been in place since 1964 that legally and effectively established discrimination against straight white males. This promoted and resulted in millions of positions being filled by less competent candidates (aka Affirmative Action, Diversity, Quotas). This has continued for sixty years and across all institutions and industries. Indirectly it has resulted a lowering of expectations that over a few decades has led millions of blacks to suffer from black on black crime, highest rates of father less homes, children born out of wedlock, failure rates in grade level math and reading proficiency tests. In a sense, Affirmative Action was the Democrat’s Trojan Horse gift to blacks.
No, diversity trumps competence and has ever since the Supreme Court's 1978 Bakke decision (see https://www.britannica.com/event/Bakke-decision ) ruled as permissible clear violations of both constitutional protections and statutory law in pursuit of the nebulous goals of (racial) diversity.
Richard Hanania argues that the seeds of diversity uber alles (and wokeism more generally) were planted by the anti-discrimination provisions of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, as interpreted, expanded, and eventually turned inside-out (à la Orwell's "Animal House" rules) by regulatory and judicial fiat (see https://www.richardhanania.com/p/woke-institutions-is-just-civil-rights ).
Whenever I hear “people who look like me” I get irked-why? Because I am a white, female, middle class Minnesota RN who worked in county community health for 16 years-over 70% of the patients I served were not Caucasian , they weren’t college educated, the were not from Minnesota. Aside from the fact that I spoke Spanish, I definitely stuck out. According to the media, I would be unable to make a difference-but I made a huge difference! Patients asked for me, sent me cards and flowers, they thanked me sometimes with tears in their eyes! I felt so appreciated! So yeah, it didn’t matter that I wasn’t Hispanic or I didn’t wear a burka or I wasn’t Black. I was just me. That’s it.
What reaction can we expect from a hospital administrator in the ER when a Chinese patient refuses to be touched by a black doctor?
Hospital administrators depend almost entirely on government funding to get their salaries and benefits, sooooooo ... they will cave and deny the request even though the request is not reasonable but likely in the best interest of the patient.
*not unreasonable
Yes, we constantly hear about this in the Medical profession-patients want a provider that looks like them. Well with all the different insurance plans, good luck with that. And besides, doesn't competence trump diversity?
Richard Bickers describes it best in his comment here so I will simply add that federal legislation and policy has been in place since 1964 that legally and effectively established discrimination against straight white males. This promoted and resulted in millions of positions being filled by less competent candidates (aka Affirmative Action, Diversity, Quotas). This has continued for sixty years and across all institutions and industries. Indirectly it has resulted a lowering of expectations that over a few decades has led millions of blacks to suffer from black on black crime, highest rates of father less homes, children born out of wedlock, failure rates in grade level math and reading proficiency tests. In a sense, Affirmative Action was the Democrat’s Trojan Horse gift to blacks.
No, diversity trumps competence and has ever since the Supreme Court's 1978 Bakke decision (see https://www.britannica.com/event/Bakke-decision ) ruled as permissible clear violations of both constitutional protections and statutory law in pursuit of the nebulous goals of (racial) diversity.
Richard Hanania argues that the seeds of diversity uber alles (and wokeism more generally) were planted by the anti-discrimination provisions of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, as interpreted, expanded, and eventually turned inside-out (à la Orwell's "Animal House" rules) by regulatory and judicial fiat (see https://www.richardhanania.com/p/woke-institutions-is-just-civil-rights ).