This is just the tip of the iceberg. He has a long and important fight ahead of him. He must rally as much support as possible. Note how he and most people looking at this are shocked by all this.
DEI is scary and letting DEI into the medical profession is the scariest situation of all. When you are going in for surgery, the doctor who is the BEST is who you want and race etc does not matter. Meritocracy corrects everything.
I had occasion to go back to this video and read the comments now. Curious whether you are still uneasy after having three months to reflect. If you are are, why?
bring the data - show where black students have "done worse" due to admission via affirmative action. I don't even hear opponents of AA make that accusation.
Dr Bosshardt seems like a very smart guy, but he is confusing prejudice with racism. By saying racism is an age-old human trait, that's "always been with us", he is missing the whole history of racism and thus misunderstanding the definition. For just one of many examples, the aristocrats and former slave owners of the American South completely rebuilt and re-established racism in their region, very consciously, by first seizing control of the narrative ("the noble, lost cause", "it was about states rights", etc), then eventually the agenda (Jim Crow). The historian Heather Cox Richardson has written at length on this and Dr Bosshardt should take a look. The political system created by the Southern ruling class built post-war racism back up more or less from scratch. Racism, not as a prejudice but as a way of like, i.e., chattel slavery, had been decisively defeated in the US Civil War, at a cost about more than 250k Southern lives. A way had to be found to re-establish a grossly unfair economy and political system, in order for white Southern aristocrats to continue to exert over the South and eventually, controlling influence over the whole country. It couldn't be left to unconscious whims, prejudices and passing emotions. And it was not. The theory and practice of organized racism, in large part, PRECEDED the racist behavior and attitudes of Southern whites. This is what "systemic racism" means. Racist tropes ("all black men want to rape white women") were created by powerful white Southerners to justify Jim Crow. Jim Crow itself took decades to develop and implement. These tropes spread North and what had been a cynical political justification for exploitation became widespread racist attitudes, which were them passed through generations of white people, until now, when we shrug off the phenomenon by repeating that it has been here all along. Prejudice has been here all along, in some form or other. Racism, a system for spreading, weaponizing and institutionalizing prejudice has not. It's not buried in our psyches. It's been driven into them, by a relentless campaign of fear-mongering and paranoia.
He doesn't 'misunderstand' the term, he's just not going to be manipulated into changing it by people who want to use it as a weapon. We will not tolerate hardline black racists within our institutions, or their enablers. Every person must be able to be able to come to work and not be the target of hostile racialist activists. Everyone.
Thank you for your information & support of meritocracy, especially in the medical field.
This is just the tip of the iceberg. He has a long and important fight ahead of him. He must rally as much support as possible. Note how he and most people looking at this are shocked by all this.
41:15 What you just described is a Kafka Trap.
DEI is scary and letting DEI into the medical profession is the scariest situation of all. When you are going in for surgery, the doctor who is the BEST is who you want and race etc does not matter. Meritocracy corrects everything.
For whatever reason I am left somewhat uneasy about this video.
I had occasion to go back to this video and read the comments now. Curious whether you are still uneasy after having three months to reflect. If you are are, why?
I need to kearn to edit
bring the data - show where black students have "done worse" due to admission via affirmative action. I don't even hear opponents of AA make that accusation.
Black medical students drop out at a higher rate. This is widely reported.
Dr Bosshardt seems like a very smart guy, but he is confusing prejudice with racism. By saying racism is an age-old human trait, that's "always been with us", he is missing the whole history of racism and thus misunderstanding the definition. For just one of many examples, the aristocrats and former slave owners of the American South completely rebuilt and re-established racism in their region, very consciously, by first seizing control of the narrative ("the noble, lost cause", "it was about states rights", etc), then eventually the agenda (Jim Crow). The historian Heather Cox Richardson has written at length on this and Dr Bosshardt should take a look. The political system created by the Southern ruling class built post-war racism back up more or less from scratch. Racism, not as a prejudice but as a way of like, i.e., chattel slavery, had been decisively defeated in the US Civil War, at a cost about more than 250k Southern lives. A way had to be found to re-establish a grossly unfair economy and political system, in order for white Southern aristocrats to continue to exert over the South and eventually, controlling influence over the whole country. It couldn't be left to unconscious whims, prejudices and passing emotions. And it was not. The theory and practice of organized racism, in large part, PRECEDED the racist behavior and attitudes of Southern whites. This is what "systemic racism" means. Racist tropes ("all black men want to rape white women") were created by powerful white Southerners to justify Jim Crow. Jim Crow itself took decades to develop and implement. These tropes spread North and what had been a cynical political justification for exploitation became widespread racist attitudes, which were them passed through generations of white people, until now, when we shrug off the phenomenon by repeating that it has been here all along. Prejudice has been here all along, in some form or other. Racism, a system for spreading, weaponizing and institutionalizing prejudice has not. It's not buried in our psyches. It's been driven into them, by a relentless campaign of fear-mongering and paranoia.
He doesn't 'misunderstand' the term, he's just not going to be manipulated into changing it by people who want to use it as a weapon. We will not tolerate hardline black racists within our institutions, or their enablers. Every person must be able to be able to come to work and not be the target of hostile racialist activists. Everyone.