A watchdog group is reportedly calling on Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore to eliminate its diversity, equity, and inclusion program. It comes a week after the program's leaders declared that white people, Christians and men are all “privileged” and are creating a “toxic culture.” .
After the post went viral, Dr. Sherita H. Golden, the school's chief diversity officer, issued a statement retracting the message, insisting she never intended to hurt anyone.
The New York Post reported that the watchdog group Do No Harm called Golden's apology “empty” and called for the DEI department to be eliminated.
“Johns Hopkins University needs to completely eliminate its DEI department and redirect its resources to the primary purpose of training the next generation of medical professionals who can provide the highest quality care to all patients.” Christina Rasmussen, executive director of No Harm, told the Post. “They have created a toxic culture rooted in a DEI ideology that demonizes and indoctrinates the very students they are tasked with training to become the next generation of medical professionals.”
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Rasmussen told the magazine that school officials' apologies were “weak” and “insufficient,” adding that the “Do No Harm” campaign “refers to the discriminatory ideas being taught to students and to the imposition of employees.” “We are focused on raising awareness about hostile workplaces,” he added.
Do No Harm set up mobile billboards on the streets of Washington, D.C., on Thursday to protest DEI programs.
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“Racism is still racism, according to DEI workers,” the sign said, and featured a picture of Golden's face, the paper said.
The @EndWokeness X account has released a newsletter unearthed from Golden in the January 2024 issue of Monthly Diversity Digest. The message included “privilege” as the “diversity word of the month,” as well as a series of descriptions that were considered “privilege.”
“Privilege is the unearned income given to people who belong to a particular social group. Privilege operates at personal, interpersonal, cultural, and institutional levels and can come at the expense of members of other groups. “Gives advantage or convenience to members of a dominant group,'' read the newsletter.
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Furthermore, “in the United States, people who are white, able-bodied, heterosexual, cisgender, male, Christian, middle-class or upper-middle-class people, middle-class people, etc. Privileges are given to those who have membership.” – Elderly people and English speaking people. ”
After the message went viral, Golden issued a statement on January 11 retracting the letter and insisting he never intended to hurt anyone.
“The newsletter included a definition of the word ‘privilege,’ which upon reflection is deeply regrettable.The purpose of the newsletter was to provide information to the inclusive community at Hopkins. , but the wording of this definition clearly did not meet that purpose.'' In fact, it was too simplistic and poorly worded, making it seem exclusive and harmful to members of the community. It had the opposite effect,” Golden wrote.
“I withdraw and disavow the definitions I shared. I apologize. I will work to ensure that future messages better reflect the values of our organization.”
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In May, Fox News Digital listed dozens of new pronouns, including “aerself” and “faerself,” as employees at Maryland's Johns Hopkins School of Medicine navigate recent inclusive ID policies. I learned that employees were given a pronoun usage guide.
Fox News Digital's Emma Colton and Lindsay Kornick contributed to this report.
