A chief diversity official at Johns Hopkins Medicine recently fired off an email to employees describing whites, males, Christians, and other groups as privileged. This is what DEI policies do. They separate people into groups and stoke animosity based on who is supposedly oppressed and oppressor. It’s purposely divisive.
Spencer Brown writes at Townhall:
Johns Hopkins Medicine Scrambling After Publishing Its Definition of ‘Privilege’Proving again that inane leftist ideology still doesn’t go over well in the real world, Johns Hopkins Medicine is scrambling to explain the thinking behind the decision for its “Chief Diversity Officer” Sherita Hill Golden to include a “privilege list” in January’s issue of the “Diversity Digest” from the “Office of Diversity, Inclusion and Health Equity.”This list was included as part of the digest’s discussion of the “Diversity Word of the Month”: privilege.Privilege is defined in Golden’s digest as “a set of unearned benefits given to people who are in a specific social group” and operating “on personal, interpersonal, cultural and institutional levels” in a way that “provides advantages and favors to members of dominant groups at the expense of members of other groups.”According to the digest, in the United States, privilege has been “granted to people who have membership in one or more of these social identity groups,” before providing the following list of identities:
- White people
- Able-bodied people
- Heterosexuals
- Cisgender people
- Males
- Christians
- Middle or owning class people
- Middle-aged people
- English-speaking people
As often happens in a case like this, once people noticed, the school and the diversity official started backtracking.
FOX 5 in Baltimore reports:
Johns Hopkins walks back diversity email stating straight white Christian male ‘privilege’In an email to The National Desk (TND) Thursday, a Johns Hopkins Medicine spokesperson explained the message did not represent its values.“The January edition of the monthly newsletter from the Johns Hopkins Medicine Office of Diversity, Inclusion and Health Equity used language that contradicts the values of Johns Hopkins as an institution,” they said. “Dr. Sherita Golden, Johns Hopkins Medicine’s Chief Diversity Officer, has sincerely acknowledged this mistake and retracted the language used in the message.”An image circulating X Thursday appeared to show an internal apology from Golden to recipients of the email.“The newsletter included a definition of the word ‘privilege’ which, upon reflection, I deeply regret,” it reads. “I retract and disavow the definition I shared, and I am sorry.”
This ideology is toxic. It doesn’t improve anything for anyone and should have no place in education, medicine, or any other industry.
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