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The American Medical Association has come under fire for publishing an 'Orwellian' guide to 'equity' that promotes critical race theory and pushes Marxism.
AMA bosses published Advancing Health Equity on October 28, complete with a list of 'problematic' words physicians should stop using such as 'vulnerable,' 'high risk' and 'minority.' The document also criticizes meritocracy and individualism.
Bizarrely, in multiple instances the suggested replacements still include the words deemed offensive. Instead of calling a patient or patients 'vulnerable' and 'marginalized', medics have been told to use the phrase 'groups that have been historically marginalized or made vulnerable.'
The 54-page guide argues that physicians are obligated to eliminate 'health inequities' by considering their language and the political circumstances behind certain groups, rather than focusing on individuals.
It explicitly references critical race theory on page six, describing the controversial set of beliefs as part of a 'rich tradition of work' that 'gives us a foundation for an alternative narrative, one that challenges the status quo, one that moves health care towards justice.'
The document has caused waves of consternation online, given the AMA's position as one of the most powerful lobbying groups in the United States. It has 240,000 members - all physicians and medical students - and raises around $330m annually in revenue, with $20m spent each year on lobbying.
It also includes a list of words physicians should stop using such as 'vulnerable,' 'high risk' and 'minority'
Matt Bai, a columnist for the Washington Post, called the AMA guide 'Orwellian' in a piece titled 'Paging Dr. Orwell. The American Medical Association takes on the politics of language.'
He wrote, 'Let's leave aside for the moment the obvious question of why it's the AMA's business to lecture anyone about what counts as acceptable language. As far as I know, the folks at Fowler's Modern English Usage have never issued a guide to performing thyroid surgery.'
Its guide also describes Marxism under the headings 'class conflict' and 'class consciousness'. Those terms attack 'those who own and control capital'. The guide goes onto highlight 'the recognition by workers of their unity as a social class in opposition to capitalists and to capitalism itself,' with the seemingly admiring tone coming despite the AMA's annual nine-figure revenue total.
The woke guide goes on to describe individualism as 'problematic,' because it 'obscures the dynamics of racism.'
Explaining its multiple instances of language policing, the guide states , 'Given the deep divides that exist between groups in the United States, understanding and empathy can be extremely challenging for many because of an inability to really 'walk a mile in another's shoes' in a racialized sense. Collectively, we have an opportunity and obligation to overcome these fissures and create spaces for understanding and healing.'
The American Medical Association has come under fire for publishing an 'Orwellian' guide on 'equity'
The guide promotes critical race theory and Marxism, while blasting meritocracy and individualism
Above is an example of the guide touting Marxism in its approach to 'equity' in the medical field
The guide also says that individualism is problematic because it distracts from power dynamics and white privilege
The guide also features nearly a full page at its beginning of a 'Land and Labor Acknowledgement,' which lists the Native American tribes that lived in Chicago – where the AMA is headquartered
The AMA guide also touts critical race theory as a means of reaching 'equity' in the medical field and cites the organization Race Forward and a document the advocacy group published on how to defend CRT, titled, 'Guide to Counter-Narrating the Attacks on Critical Race Theory.'
'Equity' has become a new buzzword closely-linked to CRT. It states that equality - when everyone is given the same opportunity - is unfair and persecutes marginalized groups, and instead touts 'equity' to ensure everyone reaches the same outcome.
'Narratives that uncritically center meritocracy and individualism render invisible the very real constraints generated and reinforced by poverty, discrimination and ultimately exclusion,' the guide reads. 'Yet a rich tradition of work in health equity and related fields, including critical race theory … gives us a foundation for an alternative narrative, one that challenges the status quo, one that moves health care towards justice.'
The AMA lists commonly-used phrases like 'white paper,' 'blacklist' and 'blackmail' and refers to them as 'terms in the English language that indicate white privilege.' It says to reconsider the need for phrases that use white or black in the name and instead refer to them by the literal meaning, like calling a blacklist a 'deny list.'
It stipulates that 'Black' should be capped-up in reference to race. It continues that while it currently also uses an uppercase W for 'White,' when discussing race, 'pressure may mount for this to change,' in an apparent indication some at the AMA wish for 'white' to receive a small 'w.'
The AMA's guide comes amid contentious culture wars over critical race theory in education and concerns that 'woke' ideology is encroaching on professional spaces as seemingly cut-and-dry as the medical field, for example.
AMA President Gerald Harmon wrote in a blog post accompanying the guide that 'As with science, our language must change and evolve over time based on new revelations and a deeper understanding.'
Critics slammed the guide as touting 'literal Marxism' and sowing division instead of focusing in medicine
'This is just the latest front in the Left's campaign to inject Critical Race Theory into every corner of America,' Jessica Anderson, executive director for the conservative Heritage Action, which has vocally opposed CRT, told Fox News.
Anderson added, 'This document, published by the largest medical association in the country, is a brazen attempt to politicize the medical field and subject health care workers to far-Left speech police. While the Left continues to falsely claim that CRT isn't real, Americans are noticing what's happening, and they're fighting back. From the waiting room to the classroom, families are standing up to reject this racist ideology.'
After explaining the guide and its suggestions, he writes, 'These medical groups — and, more to the point, the elite academic movement they're kowtowing to — may believe they're bringing history and language more in line with the goal of social justice. What they're actually doing is trying to control what their members are allowed to think and say.
He continues, 'When one of the most elite and powerful industry groups in the society senses so much external pressure that it feels compelled to banish words and institute new, tortured phraseologies, it tells you that no group is immune to what Orwell, in his famous essay on politics and language, called 'the worst follies of orthodoxy.' '
Twitter was rife with comments slamming the guide as touting 'literal Marxism' and sowing division instead of focusing in medicine. Aaron Silbarium, a reporter for the Free Beacon, wrote, 'The AMA's 'Advancing Health Equity Guide' provides a glossary of concepts that can 'serve as a starting point' for health equity. Those concepts include literal Marxism.'
The AMA's guide comes amid contentious culture wars over critical race theory, which has become a hot-button topic in politics and widely criticized by Republicans and some Democrats, while touted by progressives
Twitter user Joscha Bach shared a similar sentiment and tweeted, 'As someone who grew up in communist Eastern Germany, I recognize these textbook definitions. I now live in a universe where communism has won, and the American Medical Association is officially a believer in Dialectic Materialism (the totalizing variant of Marxist philosophy).'
Twitter user Kirk Wilcox wrote, 'According to the American Medical Association, individualism is 'problematic' ' to which user Dabi Tukay replied with a meme showing a cartoon woman explaining the AMA guide next to an ill-appearing cartoon man saying 'health pls.'
Writer Jesse Singal wrote, 'The American Medical Association has just released 'Advancing Health Equity: A Guide to Language, Narrative and Concepts,' a strange document that calls for doctors to insert progressive politics into even plain statements of fact.'
Meanwhile, Eric Miyamoto, whose describes himself in his profile as a pathologist from California, said that the guide does not reflect the medical field and wrote, 'The AMA does not represent me or the majority of physicians. They are controlled by Big Pharma & the Democratic agenda. American Medical Association pushes pro-critical race theory materials in 'Health Equity' guide.'
AMA President Gerald Harmon wrote in a blog post accompanying the guide that 'As with science, our language must change and evolve over time based on new revelations and a deeper understanding.'
He added, 'The dominant narratives in American medicine and society reflect the values and interests of the historically more privileged socioeconomic groups—white, heterosexual, able-bodied, cisgendered, male, wealthy, English-speaking, Christian, U.S.-born.'
'These narratives have been deeply rooted in value systems and ingrained in cultural practices that have given preference to the interests of society's most powerful social groups. But they can also be wielded as a weapon to oppress others,' Harmon added.
He also referred to adjectives that he says dehumanize patients by 'reducing them to their diagnosis,' like calling a patient a 'diabetic' instead of a 'patient with diabetes,' and warned against calling groups 'vulnerable' to a chronic disease instead of acknowledging the societal power structures that put such groups at a disadvantage.
The guide also features nearly a full page at its beginning of a 'Land and Labor Acknowledgement,' which lists the Native American tribes that lived in Chicago – where the AMA is headquartered – and adds that the organizations recognizes 'the extraction of brilliance, energy and life for labor forced upon millions of people of African descent for more than 400 years.'
Critical race theory has become a hot-button topic in politics and widely criticized by Republicans and some Democrats, while touted by progressives.
Georgia Republican Representative Jody Hice shared the AMA guide in a tweet that read, 'Democrats and the liberal media have the audacity to gaslight the American people by claiming #CriticalRaceTheory doesn't exist — all while they shove it down our throats. #CRT is racist and incompatible with the American dream, and we must reject it!'
One-quarter of voters in Virginia's race for governor cited the CRT debate as the single most important factor on their minds when they cast their votes, according to a Fox News voter analysis. Among those voters, 71% voted for Republican Glenn Youngkin, who won the election.
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