DEI At Its Most Insane
Segment # 105
No this is not the Babylon Bee. This is our current Administration that selects doctors, airline pilots, and bomb techs under the strict filter of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI). It is absurdly insane that this is a real story describing hiring in some of our most critical areas based on DEI and merit. You can bet this applies to you and not the elites in Government and the Private sector. You think Def Sec Austin is selecting his prostate cancer doc based on DEI. Give me a break. These people are nuts and will ensure that you pay for letting them run the asylum.
GREG GUTFELD: DEI is corrupting airlines, medical school and now landmines
Gutfeld says DEI insanity has 'infected everything'
Published February 27, 2024 11:19pm EST
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/greg-gutfeld-dei-corrupting-airlines-medical-school-now-landmines
Happy Tuesday everybody. So how do you know when you've reached peak idiocy? When we now need diversity guidelines for clearing landmines. It seems Canada has just donated $4 million bucks toward an effort to clear landmines in Ukraine. But in a gender-inclusive manner. Because if there's one thing we can agree on concerning the war in Ukraine, there simply isn't enough gender-inclusive mine action, right? But let's be clear upfront. Anyone in charge of clearing landmines is way braver than I am. I can barely clear my driveway. And if it's something you accept as your job, I don't care if you're white, black, gay, trans, or identify as a Cabbage Patch Kid. How did anybody like those dolls? Hideous. Anyway, but it's not about the dolls. It's about how DEI insanity has infected everything.
It used to corrupt only the places where useless people were, like academia or media. But now it's airlines, medical school and war, even landmines. I'm sorry. I'm thinking with landmines, maybe inclusivity shouldn't be anywhere on the list of priorities. The list should be pretty simple. Competence, patience, steady hands and balls the size of the Las Vegas Sphere. Think of Brian Kilmeade, and then think of someone who's the opposite. Got to make landmines funny. Speaking of, before we go any further, we wanted to get a comment from a guy who knows his stuff. Johnny Joey Jones, who lost both his legs as a bomb disposal technician. Not a great one. Take it away, Joey.
JOHNNY JOEY JONES: Hey, Greg, just want to let you know you have my full support to make fun of this ridiculous story about gender inclusivity when it comes to taking bombs apart. And just so you know, any gender transformation that happens while taking bombs apart-- completely by accident. We didn't mean for that to happen.
Former FAA safety expert addresses airline DEI controversy, viral United comments
'Diversity really has nothing to do with safe travel,' Kyle Bailey said
Elon Musk slams DEI hiring at Boeing & United Airlines
460K subscribers
8.9K views 1 month ago
There’s a new controversy involving Elon Musk. Some claim the businessman is backing racist beliefs about Black pilots.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdJLUH95CHA
Medical Education Is Infected with DEI
Doctors and patients must fight to eliminate discrimination and lowered standards on medical campuses.
Jun 28, 2023
A few months ago, I was summarily fired as an editor-in-chief of the kidney section of the most widely used medical reference. UpToDate is used by tens of thousands of physicians every day, helping them make the best and most timely decisions for patient care. Even as I was fired, UpToDate’s leadership team praised my work.
So why did they fire me?
Over the previous four years, I had publicly questioned the rise of “diversity, equity, and inclusion,” or DEI, in health care, expressing particular concern about its ubiquity in medical schools. That included the institution where I taught and served as an administrator for decades, the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine. I thought I was engaging in a respectful discussion about the purpose of medical education and the role of medical professionals. Turns out, I was questioning a religious dogma, the adherents of which brook no debate, much less dissent.
DEI efforts are aimed at turning physicians into advocates for social and political issues.
ShareFor me, it all began in 2017. The Perelman School had just hired a vice dean for education who urged that we train medical students to be leaders in “social justice.” That set off alarm bells, since medical students are supposed to treat illnesses, not diagnose, much less cure, what ails society. Physicians simply have no agency to address these societal ills. My alarm turned to shock when the vice dean declared, “There’s way too much science in the curriculum,” a sentiment that was echoed when another colleague criticized me for not emphasizing climate change in the course of study. Clearly, these efforts were aimed at turning physicians into advocates for social and political issues. Medical education is built on a foundation of science—the key to eradicating disease and improving human wellness. Replacing that foundation is harmful to America’s health.
My concerns deepened as the school began launching new programs under the aegis of DEI to increase the diversity of medical-school classes. Later, it even began waiving MCAT requirements for some students who had attended Historically Black Colleges and Universities. While I firmly believe that people of all backgrounds can become great physicians, I also believe that high standards are essential to identifying the most promising students. Medical schools should be strengthening those standards for everyone, not weakening them for any one group. I also noticed a decline in standards as the medical school’s clinical departments began hiring vice chairs for diversity and inclusion. (There are now 20 and counting.)
This DEI focus was by no means restricted to the medical school at Penn. By 2019, I had begun to realize that virtually every medical school in America was emphasizing DEI and social justice at the expense of medical education and scientific excellence. I began to speak out, most notably with an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, which the paper’s editors titled “Take Two Aspirin and Call Me By My Pronouns.” In it, I lamented that future physicians are increasingly trained to be activists instead of, well, physicians.
Cue the mob.
For daring to criticize the spread of social justice in medical curricula, I was roundly condemned by my fellow physicians and medical educators. They took to social media in droves to accuse me of perpetuating racism, white supremacy, and every other evil known to humanity. At first, I thought nothing would come of the attacks, since they were largely contained to Twitter and Facebook. Alas, what happens on social media doesn’t stay there.
For daring to criticize the spread of social justice in medical curricula, I was roundly condemned.
ShareIn short order, over 150 Perelman alumni signed an open letter condemning me. Colleagues of decades would no longer speak to me. When I’d walk by in the halls, conversations would stop. The reaction overshadowed my long-planned retirement, but the attacks didn’t stop when I finally left in 2021. My name was subsequently scrubbed from the university’s website. I’ve also been excised from its history of the kidney division, despite being a co-director of the division for several years.
It quickly became apparent that my beloved medical profession, to which I had devoted more than 50 years, was spiraling downward even faster than I had realized. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the decline, as did the death of George Floyd in 2020. Suddenly, medical schools were loudly proclaiming that health care is “systemically racist,” that “medical reparations” are urgently needed, and that medical education and practice must fundamentally change. Whereas DEI and social justice were frequently discussed in 2018, by the end of 2020 they were the central facets of medical education, where they remain to this day.
Amid it all, I spoke with countless physicians and medical educators who told me they were terrified to speak up. So I tried to say what they could not, protected by my retirement. I wrote a book, using the same title as my infamous Wall Street Journal op-ed. And in 2022, I founded Do No Harm to draw public attention to the corruption of medicine.
Do No Harm points out that medicine is rushing down a dangerous road. Medical schools are further undermining standards in the name of diversity, leading to lower-quality students who will provide worse care as physicians. Medical journals are publishing shoddy research articles that eschew rigorous science and see racism around every corner and as the basis of health care disparities for various minority groups. Medical practice is moving to provide preferential access to care by race—a blatant form of discrimination. And medical policymakers have bought into the dangerous lie that patients should see physicians who have the same skin color. That’s called segregation, and it has no place in health care or anywhere else.
I’ve pointed out these dangers, and many others, in countless op-eds, articles, and media interviews over the past 18 months. The blowback has been as predictable as it’s been severe, with constant accusations of racism. That’s what led to my firing by UpToDate. Its leaders could no longer tolerate being associated with someone who, despite upholding the highest standards of professionalism and science, dared to question the ideological takeover of health care.
The blowback is coming because we’re finding ways to fight and win against the Goliath that is DEI in medicine.
ShareThe UpToDate episode was painful, but I have no regrets. The blowback is coming, in large part, because we’re finding ways to fight and win against the Goliath that is DEI in medicine. Here are some of the weapons we’re using to great effect.
First, we have used social media and traditional media to inform the public about the ideological threats to medical care and medical education. We have placed over 2,500 individual items in various media outlets, including the Wall Street Journal, the New York Post, the Free Press, National Review, and others. Do No Harm has now attracted over 5,000 members, including physicians, nurses, and concerned patients.
Next, we have used federal laws that make discriminatory practices based on race illegal. Employing the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), we have asked hundreds of institutions about the DEI madness they’re funding, promoting, and demanding of students and faculty. The DEI infection has spread in part because of a lack of transparency. We are demanding that transparency.
At the end of the day, DEI requires racial and gender discrimination. That’s illegal. We’ve filed civil-rights complaints with over 100 medical schools for their discriminatory actions. The federal government has opened dozens of investigations, and now medical schools are abandoning DEI-driven discriminatory practices as a result of these efforts.
We have also helped support legislative efforts to combat DEI policies in public medical schools. We’re working with lawmakers in more than a dozen states to eliminate DEI policies from medical schools and to uphold the highest standards in admissions and curricula. One state has already passed such a law, and we expect many more victories in the months and years ahead. There are so many opportunities to protect medical education and practice through sound public policy.
Can we cure the DEI infection in American medicine? We have to try. The future of health care hangs in the balance. So does the health of every American.
Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, a nephrologist and former associate dean of the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, is chairman of Do No Harm.
https://www.jamesgmartin.center/2023/06/medical-education-is-infected-with-dei/
Navy SEALs spend more time on diversity training than warfighting, SEAL vets say
U.S. Navy Sea-Air-Land (SEAL) team members. (U.S. Navy/Released)
August 24, 2022 Elizabeth Lawrence
Multiple former U.S. Navy SEALs confirmed Donald Trump Jr.’s claim last week that members of the elite force are spending more time on diversity training than they are shooting under Commander-in-Chief Joe Biden’s presidency.
ALERT: Foreign spies are tracking your every move
“I have friends on SEAL teams that told me they spend more time now in diversity training than they do shooting,” Trump Jr. said at a Florida State House campaign event on Aug. 19.
Trump Jr. was attacked over the comments, prompting Navy SEAL Robert O’Neill — who is known for killing Al Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden — to corroborate Trump Jr.’s claims.
“He’s telling the truth. I’ve had this discussion with @DonaldJTrumpJr and so have other SEALs. Retention is an issue and so is recruitment,” O’Neill tweeted. “This is more than a political talking point. It’s happening and it’s not good.”
Retired Navy SEAL and Wisconsin congressional candidate Derrick Van Orden also confirmed the veracity of Trump Jr.’s comments.
“The amount of time that the military and special operations [are] spending on diversity, equity, and inclusion training is superseding a lot of the actual combat training,” Van Orden told Breitbart News.
“The military is spending an inordinate amount of time on the subjects that really don’t pertain to warfighting,” he continued, noting that sailors are severely lacking in basic skills – an issue that already led to the destruction of USS Bonhomme Richard. The warship was destroyed in an arson fire, but inadequate training delayed the fire response and contributed to the complete loss of the ship.
“If God forbid, we ever go to war with China, that’s exactly the ship we need because you embark Marines and helicopters on there. And that burnt to the keel because the sailors did not put out a cardboard fire and their chain of command couldn’t figure out who should be put out the fire and who should be in charge,” he said.
“I guarantee you with absolute certainty that every single sailor in that chain of command from the admiral down to the seamen on deck had all of their diversity equity and inclusion general military training done, because you can’t transfer or get promoted if you don’t have that done,” Van Orden added.
Van Orden said SEALs are required to complete diversity training, which takes away from critical warfighting training.
“And we only have X amount of hours in the day. And so you have a two hour training block. It’s not two hours — you’ve got to add half an hour ahead or half an hour after. So you’re looking at really three hours. So three hours is what, 600 hours? Just do the math on that, and then multiply that across the entire Department of Defense,” he said.
“We’re teaching them to recognize race and gender. And we’re not teaching them how to fix an M-4 or how to shoot them, or operate at high margins, or to fix a helicopter or to maintenance on a vessel or put out a fire,” Van Orden continued. “The sole purpose of the United States military has to be protecting American citizens. And how you do that is by training for war. For peace, train for war.”
Van Orden warned that the diversity training is “destructive” because it teaches troops to “divide ourselves from within.”
“It’s got to stop,” he insisted. “We treat everybody with dignity and respect, we can solve them both to protect all American citizens and it, regardless of your gender, your race, your creed, that’s all irrelevant. What we see as SEALs is we see an American citizen.”
“If you’re an American citizen or you’re one of our allies we’re gonna risk our lives for you, even if it means leaving our wives a widow or our children without fathers. So what would make somebody think that they have to put something else on top of that?” he added.
On Wednesday, a screenshot of an email from Rear Adm. Lex Walker, Commander, Navy Recruiting Command, showed the top officer signing his email with rainbow he/him pronouns.
“Email from rear admiral Lex Walker, who serves as commander of Navy Recruiting Command, the Navy’s recruitment outfit for both enlisted sailors and prospective commissioned officers. Signs his emails with rainbow he/him pronouns,” tweeted journalist Jordan Schachtel.
Meanwhile, the Navy announced last week that it is offering up to $115,000 in enlistment bonuses and loan repayment incentives for recruits in certain occupational ratings amid military-wide struggles with recruiting.
