New York Is Using Race to Determine Access to Covid Treatments(greenwald.substack.com) |
New York Is Using Race to Determine Access to Covid Treatments(greenwald.substack.com) |
They are using race to preferentially treat higher risk groups of people.
Sounds like the way you should treat people - higher risk first. Very click bait title.
With the Omicron variant now the dominant strain, the evidence is that there are no effective antiviral monoclonal treatments; there are two that seem to be exceptions, but neither one is available or even in trials in the US.
Probably the most noted proponent of CRT is Ibram X. Kendi, who famously noted: "The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination."
http://www.mssnyenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/122821_...
The statement about race is the last bullet point on page 2.
The facts contradicting this position are self evident to everybody living in the United States, but feigning ignorance is a very popular political position at the highest and lowest levels. Just keep quiet, take your payout, and be glad you're not on the bottom rung. applies even to "poor whites" (and always has, even/especially antebellum).
So naturally whenever things shake out such that 'poor whites' experience even the tiniest disadvantage, the banners are marshalled and the trumpet is blown. Nothing new under the sun.
How about this: maybe we /should/ treat unvaxed minorities before unvaxed whites-- the latter group has infinitely more historical reason to trust these institutions. Or did I miss the bit where we shot Appalachians full of syphilis?
Seeing how this is NY where the left had control and has had control for quite sometime, maybe they should try to actually fix it.
>that reverse racism is a thing.
Nobody believes reverse racism is a thing. There is only racism.
>How about this: maybe we /should/ treat unvaxed minorities before unvaxed whites
Seems like that would be continuing the institutional racism you are criticizing.
If you think people can meaningfully be racist against white people in America, let's put aside the semantic nonsense and get into the difference between discrimination (something anyone can experience) like "haha crackers can't dance" and racism, such as being 3.64x more likely to be arrested for drug possession despite nearly identical usage rates (and being a minority of the population).
Black and brown communities /are/ more vulnerable to COVID. Because the US is still de facto segregated, including in the "left" cities. We live in the consequence of redlining, and it's why "minority neighborhoods" have incredibly underfunded hospitals. Not to mention the very recent (one could argue still continuing) medical experimentation on minorities, like the Tuskegee Syphilis study, and maybe that would lead one to empathize with a hesitation to trust this country's medical institutions.
The Democrat south tried to block the civil rights act.
How about we vax by age groups not race.
You do know that the racist southern White Democrats generally switched parties in the years following Johnson’s support of the Civil Rights Act and the Republican Southern Strategy which focused on appealing to those disaffected racists the way the Republican failed to the last time they got upset with a Democrat supporting civil rights in the 1940s, right?
There’s a reason its not the Democrats waving Confederate battle flags around and having their presidential candidates endorsed by the KKK any more.
For the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (HR 7152), there were almost three times as many Democrat votes against (96) as Republican votes against (34) and 3.5 times as many Democrat (21) as Republican (6) Senators voted against it.