We Can’t Make Life Fair But We Can Make It Mediocre

“If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.” – Thomas Sowell

Big news from America’s declining medical system, the Medical College Admission Test® just got a lot harder for some people to pass – and a lot easier for others: American Medical Association Embraces Critical Race Theory, Rejects Meritocracy.

What could go wrong?    

The American Medical Association (AMA), the largest national organization representing physicians and medical students in the United States, says it will set aside its long-held concept of meritocracy in favor of “racial justice” and “health equity.”

In an 86-page strategic plan released May 11, the AMA set out a three-year road map detailing how the advocacy group will use its influence to dismantle “structural and institutional racism” and advance “social and racial justice” in America’s health care system.

According to its plan, the AMA will be following a host of strategies, including implementing “racial and social justice” throughout the AMA enterprise culture, systems, policies, and practices; expanding medical education to include critical race theory; and pushing toward “racial healing, reconciliation, and transformation” regarding the organization’s own “racially discriminatory” past.

The AMA also makes clear that it now rejects the concepts of “equality” and “meritocracy,” which have been goals in the fields of medical science and medical care.

If nothing else it certainly gives new meaning to the expression “someone has to graduate at the bottom of the class.”

Q. What do you call the person who graduated at the bottom of his medical class?

A. Doctor.

I don’t care if Big Cola wants to go woke, or Disney, or even the NFL; I can certainly live without them. But one might think that even idiotic woke progressives might be able to see the wisdom of keeping “meritocracy” alive and well in the field of medicine. In fact, before the world was woke I might even have expected them to see that their insistence on getting rid of “equality” and “meritocracy” in favor of “racial justice” is blatantly racist as it’s basic premise assumes the “privileged” white race are superior and all other races require a “little boost” to bring them aboard.

So what do you say we ditch that great old trope about American Exceptionalism and settle in for some nice, fair mediocrity. We don’t want to mess up the curve now do we?

Because we can’t really make life fair, but we sure can make it a lot more mediocre.