Essence of Diversity

13 02 2016

Boston

Campus Reform:

Harvard med students demand diversity, but no more Asians please

(snip)

They similarly lament the insufficient diversity of the student body, complaining that “while … 21.7 percent of HMS students are underrepresented in medicine,” just two of the 165 current first-year students are black females, and contending that “these numbers are not reflective of a nation in which African Americans, Hispanics, and American Indians comprise 32 percent of the population.”

According to The Boston Globe, Asians and Pacific Islanders are not mentioned in the petition because they are not considered “underrepresented” by the Association of American Medical Colleges. As of 2012, the two groups together constituted 18.9 percent of the HMS student body.

Two themes I’ve been noticing for quite some time are present in just those two paragraphs:

(1) The very definition of “diversity” is a moving goalpost which moves back and forth over the heads of Asians most often, in that they go from being diverse to not diverse most often, depending on the micropolitics of the question at hand.

(2) “Diversity” also means black women trying to ride on the backs of all “diverse” people for the benefit of black women.


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3 responses

13 02 2016
JRM

Because Asians generally have the actual smarts to make it, they end up not needing the race card; blacks know there’s a talent/intelligence differential, and aren’t very happy about the Asians blatantly getting ahead on ability.

13 02 2016
Alex the Goon

Asians aren’t diverse; they all look alike.

13 02 2016
eah

Why the fuck would a Harvard medical student give a damn about diversity?

Asians generally have the actual smarts

I have found Asian doctors to be very, uhh, unempathetic — when my mother was dying of cancer, I developed a strong dislike for one of her oncologists, an Asian woman who did not seem to really care, one way or the other, about my mother.

When I am assigned one as my primary care doctor by an HMO, I automatically ask to choose my own — if I cannot, I switch HMOs.

It's your dime, spill it. And also...NO TROLLS ALLOWED~!

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