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June 25, 2021 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
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The American Medical Association Goes Insane
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AMA's Equity Scandal 00:07:43
Hello, I'm Jared Taylor with American Renaissance.
A lot of people don't want anyone watching my videos, so if you like this one, I hope you'll send a link to a lot of your friends.
The American Medical Association is the biggest, oldest, and most influential doctors' association in the country.
It was founded 174 years ago, has an annual budget of $300 million and over 1,000 employees.
And it has just gone certifiably insane.
When it comes to training doctors, it wants to throw out the malignant narrative of merit and hard work and select people on the basis of intersectional oppression instead.
It also wants to turn the country upside down to fight racism and bring about health equity.
Here's its brand new strategic plan to embed racial justice and advance health equity.
And it's not joking about equity.
In 86 pages, it uses the word 454 times.
On the cover are ideal doctors of the future.
Ten are women, four are men, and one I would call indeterminate.
The guy I want for my doctor is the one in a turban.
The strategic plan opens with an incoherent call to worship.
We acknowledge that we are all living off the taken ancestral lands of indigenous peoples for thousands of years.
We acknowledge the extraction of brilliance, energy, and life for labor forced upon people of African descent for more than 400 years.
The first blacks showed up here in 1619, so if slavery lasted more than 400 years, they'd still be slaves.
On the same page, the strategic plan says doctors must have the consciousness, tools, and resources to confront inequalities and dismantle white supremacy, racism, and other forms of exclusion.
Doctors are also supposed to fight poverty, lack of good jobs and good housing, and perceived powerlessness.
They're going to be busy, aren't they?
But it's all in the name of equity.
So what is that?
Where equality is a blunt instrument of sameness, equity is a precise scalpel that requires a deep understanding of complex dynamics and systems.
Treating people equally is a blunt instrument.
It's so 1960s.
But equity is a precise scalpel for treating people differently.
So who are the people with a deep understanding of complex dynamics?
Who know how to cut one way but not another with that precise scalpel?
Surely, one would be the AMA's very own Chief Health Equity Officer, Aletha Maybank, whose staff wrote the report.
She was appointed in 2019, and here she is in Essence magazine bragging about a historic day for black women, a historic day for the AMA.
So what's guiding those scalpel cuts?
The report says it's all about the marginalized and the minoritized.
And who are they?
Black, indigenous, Latinx, Asian, other people of color, women, LGBTQ+.
Who's missing?
It would be so much simpler if the report just said, straight honkies cause all our problems.
So, what does Aletha want the world of medicine to look like?
Back to page 12, where we learned that equality is passé.
The strategic plan itself highlights in blue the words of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Ginsburg.
People ask me sometimes, when do you think it will be enough?
When will there be enough women on the court?
And my answer is, when there are nine.
In other words, when they're all women.
So, when will there be enough marginalized and minoritized doctors?
Is Aletha telling us it'll be when there's not one heterosexual white man left?
To get at that point, we're going to have to get rid of standards for doctors, but Aletha's ready for that.
Back to page 12, where she writes, So we will choose doctors on the basis of equity,
not competence.
The strategic plan rabbits on about It includes nifty graphs of the waxing and waning of structural violence,
whatever that is, against blacks and Indians.
Stop the video and take a look.
There are identical sine waves of structural violence for LGBTQ +, Asians, and Hispanics.
The strategic plan agonizes over AMA's own deep racism and promises to quantify impacts of AMA's policy and process decisions that excluded, discriminated, and harmed,
and launch a multi-year restorative justice initiative.
Quantify the evil?
I imagine the unit of measure will be U.S. dollars.
This is restorative justice, after all.
And here's Aletha herself talking about this, interviewed by the AMA's Chief Experience Officer, whatever that is.
You know, what do we do with that?
How do we really understand fully the costs of that harm, both quantitatively and qualitatively?
And then what do we do to repair that?
What awful things did the AMA do?
Somebody went back through 147 years worth of papers and proceedings and found the very worst.
They are in Appendix 9, AMA's historical harms.
Harms, plural.
Here are all four harms in the general category.
171 years ago, the AMA published a paper on the cranial capacity of skulls of different racial and ethnic groups.
Unlike what this says, it never mentioned.
Phenology. What will that be worth in restorative justice?
Half a million?
The second, HARM, is a 161-year-old paper that can be described as proto-eugenic.
The third is a 1907 report on improving public health in Panama so people digging the canal won't get sick.
And the last one from 1930 was a debate over whether it was fair to let European doctors immigrate if American doctors couldn't practice in Europe.
Pretty awful stuff, isn't it?
So how much will the AMA have to pay?
Well, I'm sure we'll find out.
As you can see, Aletha has all these people working for.
Nine of them have the word manager or director in their title, so they probably have staff under them too.
This is not just a colossal waste of time and money.
It means incompetent doctors who will kill people.
Because, despite all this newfangled idiotic jabber about structural violence and racial capitalism, the fundamental insanity in this strategic plan is new.
Affirmative Action Success Story 00:02:09
Some of you old-timers remember Patrick Chavis.
He went to UC Davis Medical School in 1973 under a special program to let in blacks who had low grades and test scores.
It was equity before its time.
A white applicant who was rejected, Alan Backey, who had much better scores and grades, sued, claiming racial discrimination.
The case went to the Supreme Court, which ruled that racial preferences were legal.
Chavis became a doctor.
And was touted as a great success for affirmative action on TV, in The Nation, and in a cover story in the New York Times Magazine in 1995.
The next year, Senator Ted Kennedy called him the perfect example of how affirmative action is supposed to work.
Well, the year after that, the state of California suspended his medical license, saying he had an inability to perform some of the most basic duties required of a physician.
He had been sued 21 times for malpractice.
After he bungled an operation on Yolanda Makalyan, he hid her in his house for 40 hours where she lost 70% of her blood.
Miraculously, she survived.
He used his precise scalpel on Tamaria cotton and then left her to bleed to death.
They were black women, intersectional victims of systemic racism, but then
As now, black lives didn't matter unless there was a white man to blame.
Patrick Chavis never accepted responsibility and he always shouted about racism.
Nineteen years ago, he was shot to death, age 50, near Los Angeles.
Robbery? Carjacking?
An angry former patient?
No one seems to know.
I wonder if our friend Aletha has ever heard of Patrick Chavis.
It would serve her right.
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