Yup. and just like other cult leaders, televangelists, or demagogues, they are not giving money to the schools to help educate the poor out of poverty, but buying mansions in the ritzy neighborhoods.
Who do they think they are, the Vatican?
well, maybe, since they are imitating the Inquisition and ferreting out their enemies.
None of this is new, of course: punishing bad thought goes back at least to Daniel or the Macabees or the Roman Empire where Justin dared to object to the propaganda.
but in the modern world, another movement comes to mind, when students were urged to purify the opinions of their teachers etc.
and where are the leaders who object to this destruction?
well, in the absense of polical leaders, we will have to fall back to humorists.
Lileks fisks an example of fake news reporting from a guy who ridicules anyone who reports on the Minnesota riots, and name calls anyone who opposes his point of view as racist.
It’s an tedious torrent of ignorance and self-righteous BS with one rhetotical gimmick: it conflates disagreement with terror.
Perhaps you know people like this. One can say, with a calm mien and civilized demeanor, that you regard the march of Gramscian theory through the universities with alarm, because the traditions of history and empiricism are being replaced with a boilerplate ideology that sees everything through a cracked, filthy prism that denies reduces everyone to tribal identities and denies the foundational precepts of the American experiment....
What may strike the author as a ringing series of J’accuses! might strike others as the obsessive mutterings of a meth-head with one leg jackhammering up and down, but I suppose that’s a matter of opinion.
read the whole thing. Yes, Lileks is a humorist. As in his Gallery of regrettable Food:
presumably he will soon be canceled as a fascist for daring to report that most ordinary bland folks in Minnesota don't like riots that loot their local Walgreens.
Because, like cults, you can be excommunicated and exiled for daring to speak the truth (But it moves/ but there are two sexes).
like the Red Guard, the twittermobs and the professional activists are now fat with money from corporations trying to appease them.
Reality check: the "committee" did not do a poll of the doctors who belong to the AMA.
The average doc is working his or her Puwit off thanks to an epidemic of Covid and a lot of ordinary diseases that were neglected thanks to the shutdowns so one suspects they neither knew nor cared about this.
Ah, but the AMA claimed they responded to "complaints" from people who were hurt and objected, but I suspect it would be more accurate to say "complaints from activists who monitor what you say and then pounce so they can take over".
This is manipulation, and speaks poorly for academic freedom.
By the way, the podcast that started all of this was deleted of course, so that you can't hear it and hurt your feelings (but the internet is forever, so it's here).
Presumably the JAMA will quickly morph into the NEJM, Lancet and the BMJ in printing poorly written propaganda with questionable statistical analysis in the guise of scientific medicine: but hey, it's for a good cause.
So, Conspiracy theory, right? I'm just paranoid.
Whoops: These activists even admit that the removal was to make the journal part of their propaganda arm:
many critics of the podcast see this as an important first step.
note: All italics mine.
The decision to remove Bauchner during the investigation “potentially corroborates JAMA's intentions to become a more culturally competent organization,” says Steven Bradley, MD, an anesthesiologist and fellow of the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics. “Hopefully, this signifies an increased effort to diversify the staff at JAMA, as increased diversity will provide additional viewpoints on issues surrounding ethnicity, culture, socioeconomic status,” says Bradley, who hosts The Black Doctor Podcast. “These issues have always been important because these are the issues our patients deal with.
His patients? WTF? How would he know? So he's a GP who works in the slums where people worry about their diabetic control or if their blood pressure is too high?
Nope. He is a trained anesthesiologist, i.e. a doc who puts people to sleep so they can have surgery. And he's an ethicist, which in today's world means activist who pushes an agenda rather than ethics (he is doing a racial agenda, which at least is better than the majority of ethicists who are busy being "apologists for deathmaking" and telling you why it's okay to stop feeding your grandmother when she is sick, or why it's okay to put infected covid patients back into nursing homes, or why it's okay not to treat the disabled with a low QALY for Covid because hey, they just might need that ICU bed for a person who is not a "useless eater"..
The irony is that it is the "industrialization" of medicine by big business, the profit motive of the HMO's and of modern medical ethics that promotes efficiency and medical rationing is not so much racist as it is working against poor people of all colours.
Because it places all patients and diseases into a box, and makes efficiency and filling out the forms more important than actually listening to your patients.
and the last time I heard about this being a major ethical problem was 30 years ago
Just 9 years before his death, Pellegrino lamented that our cultural climate had called the fundamental means and ends of medicine into question, leading him to propose a renewed reflection on medicine’s basic concepts, including health, disease, and illness.
medicine is about health, disease an illness? heh Who wuda thot?
This call dovetailed with a central theme of his oeuvre, the push for and articulation of a philosophical basis for modern medicine oriented by the realities of clinical practice and human existence
And that needs to be discussed. So Dr. Bradley is correct that there is a problem.
It is his radical "solution" that I object to.
My point is that, by putting it into the BLM "everyone is racists" box, he is willing to destroy a medical journal.
He prefers to distort objectivity and stop open discussions of problems by censorship. And those doing the censorship are a small group with a larger agenda, whose ultimate aim is to destroy western civilization in the name of diversity, and replacing it with... what? It's not clear.
Does he want a BLM/race theory takeover of medicine, pushing PC thinking and having struggle sessions to correct your bad think. And if you make a gaffe, will you lose your license to practice medicine?
I should note they did some of this stuff when I was in medical school back in the 1960s...and we had "encounter" sessions that were supposed to make us more honest but were actually about making us conform to the leader's opinion, because hey, who dared to open their mouth and say the discussion was bull....?
In these sessions, lots of personal questions were asked, which if you answered them truthfully let the leaders manipulate you of course....but I figured it was none of their business so I usually lied through my teeth when asked about personal things.
So none of this is new.
And yes, this is not about "racism": this is just the first step to destroy the STEm fields, which rely on evidence instead of ideological correctness.
so who defends Western Civilization? What did it ever do for you?
If you want to hear the defense of western civilization, a non PC audiobook of the day can be found on internet archives: LINK
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in a related topic:
There are riots over police killings, but not a lot in the news when innocent doctor and his family are murdered by Psychopaths. Indeed, the news stories are now all about the murderer.
This will quickly morph into bad guns memes if they even bother to discuss this atrocity, but although I am pro gun control, I wonder if the doc had a gun at home they'd all be alive.
You see, Lolo always carried a gun in his car and in the house, because he still made house calls so carried morphine etc. with him... and he was at risk for being murdered by druggies seeking drugs. (or druggies who seek revenge because you won't give them drugs).
This doctor was also an author: his book can be found HERE.
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unrelated to above, but remember: most of what is being called "fascism" in the US is not facsicm but ordinary folks who disagree with marxist activists.
But some people just don't go along with the real fascists:
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