‘Implicit Bias’ Training Cost Me My Job – States are forcing medical professionals to make false confessions of racism. I refused to go along.

[Mac-7]

Is any and all "diversity training" necessarily "brain washing"?
If I teach my sons not to be racist, is that "brain washing"?
If YOU try to convince someone to BE racist, is that "brain washing"?
What the hell?

I think I struck a nerve

 

[Flash]

This is from the Wall St. Journal. It's a great example of how wokism destroys everything it touches.

For 39 years, the people who were in charge of health care decided that this nurse was good at her job.

But now, all of a sudden, they are now requiring her to make a false confession to being racist. She refused, and they fired her.

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‘Implicit Bias’ Training Cost Me My Nursing Job

States are forcing medical professionals to make false confessions of racism. I refused to go along.

By Laura L. Morgan

September 30, 2022

I was fired from my nursing job this year for refusing to take “implicit bias” training. After 39 years of providing equal care to all my patients without regard to their race, I objected to a mandatory course grounded in the idea that I’m racist because I’m white. I fear every healthcare professional will soon be forced to make the same awful decision I did: Falsely admit to being racist or abandon the medical field.

My ordeal started in September 2021 when my employer, Dallas-based Baylor Scott & White Health, rolled out its annual training modules for clinical educators. The list included “Overcoming Unconscious Bias.” After viewing the interactive course, I contacted my supervisor and asked for a meeting with the chief nursing officer and the human resources director. The former sent a surrogate; the latter didn’t attend. After two meetings, it was clear that I wouldn’t be given an exemption. My supervisor told me, “I don’t want you to die on this cross.”

But I did. The idea of implicit bias is grounded in the belief that white people treat those who aren’t white worse than those who are. It’s part of the woke assumption that society, including healthcare, suffers from “systemic racism.” Accordingly, my own supposed implicit bias, which is a euphemism for ingrained racism, must be rooted out. Not only that, it must be replaced with preferential treatment for the nonwhite. I fail to see how real racial discrimination is justified by my nonexistent racism.

I knew it was coming, but I was still devastated when I was fired in February. I went from a six-figure job to zero income. The day I was fired I sold my car to make sure I’d have enough money to live on. When I tried to find a new healthcare job, no one would hire me. No doubt if they contacted my old employer, they were told why I was let go.

States are increasingly requiring implicit-bias training as a condition for obtaining medical and nursing licenses. As of July, the Kentucky Board of Nursing requires that all registered nurses take a continuing-education course on implicit bias. In July, as a journalistic exercise, I paid $5 and signed up for the recommended course, created by the Kentucky Nurses Association. Nurses are told that “implicit bias kills,” and that white privilege is a “covert” form of racism. The course walks nurses through their possible contributions to “modern-day lynchings in the workplace.”

In June, Michigan started requiring all professional-license holders to take two hours of implicit-bias training. That’s everyone from doctors and nurses to dentists and counselors. The training must be taken at every license renewal, which sends the message that racism is essentially permanent and incurable. Massachusetts also mandated implicit-bias training for doctors in June, connecting doctors’ supposed racism to lower-quality care for minority patients. Maryland will enact its rule for “all healthcare practitioners” on Oct. 1.

No state board of medicine or nursing provides sufficient evidence to support the claim that all white people are implicitly biased, and there’s plenty of scholarly research that shows that implicit-bias testing is flawed. Policy makers don’t seem to be considering the unintended consequences of these mandates. Accusing my peers and me of racism will contribute to soaring levels of burnout, causing many to leave the medical profession. Some, like me, will surely be forced out. Patients, especially minorities, will experience the most harm. Their caregivers are being told to admit to unconscious racism. Why would you see a physician who supposedly hates you and will hurt your health?

More state mandates are surely on the way, including in red states. Most state medical associations, which exert a powerful influence over policy, have bought in to the belief that their own members are racist. The Texas Nurses Association declares the existence of “racial biases in healthcare” and supports implicit-bias training for nurses. The national Federation of State Medical Boards urges state boards to take a bigger role in addressing the “systemic racism and structural inequities” that it says are “embedded” in American healthcare.

Before I was fired, I wrote the following to the leadership of Baylor Scott & White Health: “Treating patients, coworkers, family members, and my superiors in a fair and respectful manner is the practice I have subscribed to during my entire 39-year nursing career.” The same is true of most of the medical professionals I’ve worked with. No one – not me, my peers or our patients – will be better off if more states call us liars and racists.

It sounds like she has grounds for a Civil Rights Violation case.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

This is from the Wall St. Journal. It's a great example of how wokism destroys everything it touches.

For 39 years, the people who were in charge of health care decided that this nurse was good at her job.

But now, all of a sudden, they are now requiring her to make a false confession to being racist. She refused, and they fired her.

archive.ph

‘Implicit Bias’ Training Cost Me My Nursing Job

States are forcing medical professionals to make false confessions of racism. I refused to go along.

By Laura L. Morgan

September 30, 2022

I was fired from my nursing job this year for refusing to take “implicit bias” training. After 39 years of providing equal care to all my patients without regard to their race, I objected to a mandatory course grounded in the idea that I’m racist because I’m white. I fear every healthcare professional will soon be forced to make the same awful decision I did: Falsely admit to being racist or abandon the medical field.

My ordeal started in September 2021 when my employer, Dallas-based Baylor Scott & White Health, rolled out its annual training modules for clinical educators. The list included “Overcoming Unconscious Bias.” After viewing the interactive course, I contacted my supervisor and asked for a meeting with the chief nursing officer and the human resources director. The former sent a surrogate; the latter didn’t attend. After two meetings, it was clear that I wouldn’t be given an exemption. My supervisor told me, “I don’t want you to die on this cross.”

But I did. The idea of implicit bias is grounded in the belief that white people treat those who aren’t white worse than those who are. It’s part of the woke assumption that society, including healthcare, suffers from “systemic racism.” Accordingly, my own supposed implicit bias, which is a euphemism for ingrained racism, must be rooted out. Not only that, it must be replaced with preferential treatment for the nonwhite. I fail to see how real racial discrimination is justified by my nonexistent racism.

I knew it was coming, but I was still devastated when I was fired in February. I went from a six-figure job to zero income. The day I was fired I sold my car to make sure I’d have enough money to live on. When I tried to find a new healthcare job, no one would hire me. No doubt if they contacted my old employer, they were told why I was let go.

States are increasingly requiring implicit-bias training as a condition for obtaining medical and nursing licenses. As of July, the Kentucky Board of Nursing requires that all registered nurses take a continuing-education course on implicit bias. In July, as a journalistic exercise, I paid $5 and signed up for the recommended course, created by the Kentucky Nurses Association. Nurses are told that “implicit bias kills,” and that white privilege is a “covert” form of racism. The course walks nurses through their possible contributions to “modern-day lynchings in the workplace.”

In June, Michigan started requiring all professional-license holders to take two hours of implicit-bias training. That’s everyone from doctors and nurses to dentists and counselors. The training must be taken at every license renewal, which sends the message that racism is essentially permanent and incurable. Massachusetts also mandated implicit-bias training for doctors in June, connecting doctors’ supposed racism to lower-quality care for minority patients. Maryland will enact its rule for “all healthcare practitioners” on Oct. 1.

No state board of medicine or nursing provides sufficient evidence to support the claim that all white people are implicitly biased, and there’s plenty of scholarly research that shows that implicit-bias testing is flawed. Policy makers don’t seem to be considering the unintended consequences of these mandates. Accusing my peers and me of racism will contribute to soaring levels of burnout, causing many to leave the medical profession. Some, like me, will surely be forced out. Patients, especially minorities, will experience the most harm. Their caregivers are being told to admit to unconscious racism. Why would you see a physician who supposedly hates you and will hurt your health?

More state mandates are surely on the way, including in red states. Most state medical associations, which exert a powerful influence over policy, have bought in to the belief that their own members are racist. The Texas Nurses Association declares the existence of “racial biases in healthcare” and supports implicit-bias training for nurses. The national Federation of State Medical Boards urges state boards to take a bigger role in addressing the “systemic racism and structural inequities” that it says are “embedded” in American healthcare.

Before I was fired, I wrote the following to the leadership of Baylor Scott & White Health: “Treating patients, coworkers, family members, and my superiors in a fair and respectful manner is the practice I have subscribed to during my entire 39-year nursing career.” The same is true of most of the medical professionals I’ve worked with. No one – not me, my peers or our patients – will be better off if more states call us liars and racists.

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I'll take "Why I Don't Use Hospitals" for $2000, Alex.





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[Unkotare]

I think I struck a nerve

I think you failed to answer my questions.

 

[Unkotare]

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You and your spouse are the only people who have the right to teach your children anything about values, including racism.

Period.




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How about teaching that values exist, and that some people have/had different ones in certain times and places? Is merely uttering the word values "brainwashing"? Is any mention of racism "brainwashing"? Is teaching the history of slavery "brainwashing"? Is teaching the history of violent abolitionists "brainwashing"? Toussaint Louverture? Nat Turner? John Brown? Is it "brainwashing" to teach how many people died, what the context was, and to allow students to form their own positions supported by fact?

It kinda seems like for some people "brainwashing" means so much as mentioning anything someone on this or that side might find uncomfortable, or teaching anything about history without the "correct" bias one way or the other. Talk about rendering a term devoid of meaning..........

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

How about teaching that values exist, and that some people have/had different ones in certain times and places? Is merely uttering the word values "brainwashing"? Is any mention of racism "brainwashing"? Is teaching the history of slavery "brainwashing"? Is teaching the history of violent abolitionists "brainwashing"? Toussaint Louverture? Nat Turner? John Brown? Is it "brainwashing" to teach how many people died, what the context was, and to allow students to form their own positions supported by fact?

It kinda seems like for some people "brainwashing" means so much as mentioning anything someone on this or that side might find uncomfortable, or teaching anything about history without the "correct" bias one way or the other. Talk about rendering a term devoid of meaning..........

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Back in the late 70's, when my husband was teaching sixth graders, he was strictly forbidden to teach anything resembling values.

This was undoubtedly to keep teachers from talking about God.

Too bad, so sad, you can't have it both ways.

Nothing resembling values even whispered in school.





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Back in the late 70's, when my husband was teaching sixth graders, he was strictly forbidden to teach anything resembling values.

This was undoubtedly to keep teachers from talking about God.

Too bad, so sad, you can't have it both ways.

Nothing resembling values even whispered in school.





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And how exactly would you expect to teach History or Literature? At some point it becomes absurd.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

And how exactly would you expect to teach History or Literature? At some point it becomes absurd.

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The left should have thought of that decades when they outlawed it.





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[Mac-7]

I think you failed to answer my questions.

Ok if you insist

Is any and all "diversity training" necessarily "brain washing"?

I’ve never seen or heard of any that arent brainwashing

The class is given by some fire-breathing black radical or a token, guilt-ridden limp-wrist white guy

Either way they are full of all the wrong answers to every racial issue

Or in your case japanese internment camps and the bombing of Hiroshima

If I teach my sons not to be racist, is that "brain washing"?

Not necessarily

But in your case probably so

If YOU try to convince someone to BE racist, is that "brain washing"?

Thats nonsense and not worthy of a response

 

[Unkotare]

Ok if you insist

Is any and all "diversity training" necessarily "brain washing"?

I’ve never seen or heard of any that arent [sic] brainwashing
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Is that a "yes"?

 

[Unkotare]

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Either way they are full of all the wrong answers to every racial issue

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Ok. What are the right answers to ten "racial issues."

 

[Unkotare]

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Or in your case japanese internment camps and the bombing of Hiroshima

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Did those things happen or not?

 

[Unkotare]

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If I teach my sons not to be racist, is that "brain washing"?

Not necessarily

But in your case probably so

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A) FUCK YOU, DICKLESS

B) Why would even an idiot like you say something so stupid?

 

[Unkotare]

If YOU try to convince someone to BE racist, is that "brain washing"?

Thats nonsense and not worthy of a response

So, you can't. Got it.

 

[Mac-7]

Did those things happen or not?

Not the way you tell it

You put a very anti American slant on it thanks to your personal bias

 

[Unkotare]

Not the way you tell it

You put a very anti American slant on it thanks to your personal bias

So, for YOU "brainwashing" = anything that YOU disagree with in any way, to any degree, including tone and interpretation. Sounds like YOU are interested in "brainwashing" and "indoctrination." Good thing you have no chance to enact your unethical aspirations.

 

[Mac-7]

So, for YOU "brainwashing" = anything that YOU disagree with in any way, to any degree, including tone and interpretation. Sounds like YOU are interested in "brainwashing" and "indoctrination." Good thing you have no chance to enact your unethical aspirations.

Brainwashing is forcing your opinion on a captive audience

Something you do every day in your classroom

And its the basis of diversity training

 

[Unkotare]

Brainwashing is forcing your opinion on a captive audience
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Something I have never done and will never do. Go fuck yourself, you lying sack of shit.

 

[Unkotare]

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And its the basis of diversity training

Who told you that?

 

[Mac-7]

Who told you that?

Observation