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While the behavior is despicable, what makes your think affirmative action and college quotas had anything to do with this doctor's academic records? Just because a person is black and has a career doesn't mean they got it through affirmative action.
LOL - you don't seem very familiar with this forum.
And when I'm talking about yellow journalism, I'm talking about the title of this thread, not the news clip.
1) We don't know whether or not those were affirmative action candidates.
2) That was ONE (1) doctor doing this. One. And this is where yellow journalism. The OP taking that news clip and using it to say "see, this is an affirmative action candidate".
If many people refuse to go to a Black doctor based on that news clip, then that is on them. That is their prejudice. That is them believing that a Black doctor is somehow inferior.
And what about Dr. Ben Carson? A Black doctor who revolutionized separating conjoined twins? Is someone going to refuse to see him?
While the behavior is despicable, what makes your think affirmative action and college quotas had anything to do with this doctor's academic records? Just because a person is black and has a career doesn't mean they got it through affirmative action.
Behavior like this can be found regardless of how someone got into a profession. Think about some of the corruption scandals that have taken place.
This is what it confirms to me. This is not so much about affirmative action. I'm sure there are some Hispanic doctors that might have benefited from affirmative action. How many would have, I don't know. The only way to know who benefited from affirmative action is to know their test scores. I do know this. It is only Blacks that anyone is complaining about.
In my experience the black doctors seem to be excellent. I had a bad ankle for 10 years until I saw a female African doctor here on a visa she told me. She prescribed the right meds and physical therapy and cured me. Just my experience but I wouldn’t hesitate to trust a black doc.
In my experience the black doctors seem to be excellent. I had a bad ankle for 10 years until I saw a female African doctor here on a visa she told me. She prescribed the right meds and physical therapy and cured me. Just my experience but I wouldn’t hesitate to trust a black doc.
Surely you understand that AA lowers the bar for the recipient population? You do grasp this concept, correct?
If they had the same scores as the rest they wouldn't need AA now, would they?
It is certainly true that liberal affirmative action judges people based on skin color over merit to a degree, but it is also true that not every black in college needed affirmative action to get into college.
She appears to be a person who makes bad choices (along with some of the nurses), which doesn't prove one way or the other that she needed affirmative action.
I wish OP hadn’t made this thread about AA as this is a horrifying story. The local report is even more damning, especially the longer video at the bottom of the article. Videos of exposed butts in the air shot from the foot to show the victim’s crack while the “doctor” mocks her patient. A psychopath with a scalpel.
Every single person in the room one each of those videos (save the victims) should be stripped of every possession for decades. Yes, that is my immediate emotional response but these people are pure evil. I have seen videos where nurses have mocked the patient under anesthesia, but never to such a sadistic level as this woman and the pseudo medical professionals in the room with her.
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