https://wsj.com/articles/ucla-school-of-medicine-antiracism-cour…
The University of California Los Angeles School of Medicine requires that first year students take a class called “Structural Racism and Health Equity” as part of the standard curriculum. In one exercise for the course, students divide by racial group and retreat to different areas to discuss antiracist prompts.
This is known as racial caucusing, a teaching device that UCLA describes as an “anti-racist pedagogical tool” to “provide a reflective space for us to explore how our positionality—particularly our racial identities as perceived within clinical spaces—influence our interaction with patients, colleagues and other staff.”
It’s also illegal. According to Do No Harm, a group that describes its mission as “eliminating racial discrimination in healthcare,” the practice violates the 1964 Civil Rights Act. In a letter to the San Francisco Office for Civil Rights, Do No Harm wrote this week that the school’s racial caucusing groups “illegally segregate and separate its first year medical students based on their race, color and/or national origin” in violation of Title VI.
@ISIDEWITH5mos5MO
How would you feel if your education involved separating into groups based on race for certain discussions?
@9CJ6CB65mos5MO
I feel like that’s probably not a great example to go off of and should be avoided. Just use a fictional test group instead of real people.
@LeftLaneRaisinsRepublican5mos5MO
Wanna stop racism, UCLA? Then, stop being racist.
@9CJ6CB65mos5MO
I was gonna say just use a fictional group for that kind of social project since they may accidentally get the wrong idea across.
@JealousBadgerRepublican5mos5MO
DEI is a plague on our great and noble country.
Shame on the perpetrators of this disgusting practice.and on the sniveling university administrators who lack the courage to put an end to it.
@9CJ6CB65mos5MO
Not necessarily true, just as there are people who take conservatism too far, there are people who take liberalism too far, but the ideal of DEI is NOT bad.
@Patriot-#1776Constitution5mos5MO
If you're not a racist, why do you support hiring people on the basis of skin colour rather than merit? Is that not definitionally racist? It's possible to racist against whites & asians, just as it is to be racist against blacks...
@CrackersMatt5mos5MO
@9J3JBT35mos5MO
Stoking racial divisions will destroy us as a nation.
@VictoriousPonyLibertarian5mos5MO
“Racial caucusing” in a required course at UCLA medical school
This needs to go away as soon as possible—talk about a “social construction”
@9J37Z865mos5MO
The United States has had a long history of segregation and prejudice in which I think that it is ignorant to go back in time. Because we pride ourselves on being an equal and free country, it puts minorities at a disadvantage and set them up for failure by automatically grouping them in stereotypes.
@R3volutionSarahRepublican5mos5MO
The legality of such practices is indeed a valid concern. It's a delicate balance between ensuring equal rights and promoting diversity and understanding. The intention behind the Civil Rights Act was to prohibit discrimination, and it could be argued that these exercises, rather than discriminating, aim to dismantle systemic bias.
@9J2XLBTWomen’s Equality5mos5MO
its wrong we are in 2024 noone should be judged off race
@9J34WJL5mos5MO
We should be far past this idiotic idea of segregating against particular groups just based on race.
@9J34Q325mos5MO
dividing race in any way, no matter who has the advantage, is segregation and racism
@WrathfulFranchiseGreen5mos5MO
I am a medical student at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and we were required to complete similar coursework on "Racism in Medicine" in our second year (prior to entering the hospital wards for third-year rotations) that was a source of some controversy.
Aside from the ideological clashes, the problem with this kind of coursework is a logistical one. We have so much to learn in such an abbreviated period of time that our education should be strictly focused on material that is clinically relevant.
@LemurClaireGreen5mos5MO
It’s one thing to address ethno-racial issues that potentially affect ALL doctors like with Secretary Austin & differential incidence of disease. It’s ok to talk address getting trust in wake of Tuskegee affair but what they’re doing there is outrageously divisive for starters
@9J2XDT55mos5MO
It ridiculous and should be stopped.
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