Johns Hopkins Won’t Punish DEI Boss for Sending Newsletter About ‘Privilege’
“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”
The school was embarrassed enough to completely backtrack but there will be no consequences, naturally.
FOX News reports:
Johns Hopkins DEI boss won’t face discipline for comments condemned by school brass
Dr. Sherita H. Golden, chief diversity officer at Johns Hopkins Medicine, does not appear to be facing discipline over her definition of “privilege” that was published in the school’s newsletter, despite intense backlash that forced the institution’s leaders to “repudiate” the language.
When Fox News Digital asked the school on Sunday whether Golden would face disciplinary action, a spokesperson doubled down on Golden’s apology, saying in an emailed statement that Golden has “sincerely acknowledged” the mistake.
“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,” a Johns Hopkins Medicine spokesperson told Fox News Digital. “Dr. Sherita Golden, Johns Hopkins Medicine’s Chief Diversity Officer, has sincerely acknowledged this mistake and retracted the language used in the message.”
The original newsletter claimed that “males,” “White people,” “middle-aged people” and “able-bodied people,” among other groups, benefit from “privilege,” which was the “Diversity Word of the Month” for the January 2024 issue of its Monthly Diversity Digest.
“Privilege is an unearned benefit given to people who are in a specific social group. Privilege operates on personal, interpersonal, cultural and institutional levels, and it provides advantages and favors to members of dominant groups at the expense of members of other groups,” the newsletter read.
On Thursday, Golden apologized and said she “deeply” regretted the “overly simplistic and poorly worded” newsletter, which she said “had the opposite effect of being exclusionary and hurtful to members of our community.”
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Does Sherita H. Golden benefit from non-white female privilege? She can say anything she wants no matter how divisive, and has guaranteed job security and salary for life?
Translation: We can’t discipline her because we actually agree, but we are to much sniveling cowards to admit that and lose donors.
Employment teflon privilege
She is likely one of those who is out of the building and on the JFX by 5 every day, that is, if she even lives in Baltimore County.
Maybe some of the donors should walk away from this woke cesspool as well
Johns Hopkins is irredeemably woke. Check this out:
“The Johns Hopkins
Bloomberg School of Health,
Center for Gun Violence Solutions”
Yeah, we’ll take the Everytown money. Then we’ll happily argue that something is an “epidemic” despite failing every one of Koch’s Postulates. Hell, we redefined vaccine, we can do the same for epidemic.
Not woke, but Bloomberg’d. Once they took a penny of his money, they lost all credibility.
You know who is the largest property owner in Baltimore? Johns Hopkins (as of ~20 yrs ago doubt it’s changed)
You know which undergrad colleges required a 3rd jab in order to come to school? On short notice. When the “safe and effective” myth had already been largely exposed. Johns Hopkins (also Harvard also Yale)
Things that make you go hmmm
Part of the dilemma for JH, is that it is located in baltimore, which is 65% black, but that demographic is not reflected throughout the university. So they feel it is necessary to hire black woman to spout off about DEI to virtue signal.