The CDC is actively de-prioritizing segments of the elderly when it comes to vaccine distribution because they tend to be white. They explain excess elderly death will “level the playing field”.
In an article in the New Times, a doctor explains why the CDC chose to de-emphasize the elderly, even though doing so would’ve saved lives: “Older populations are whiter…Instead of giving add’l health benefits to those who already had them, we can start to level the playing field a bit”
Later in the piece another doctor, named Marc Lipsitch, explains that teachers should not be considered essential workers for the purpose of being given priority vaccines by the CDC because, and I quote, “they are often very white.”
A third expert, an economist named Elise Gould, counters Dr. Lipsitch that teachers *should* be prioritized. Why? Because the families they teach are disproportionately “Black and Brown”, and those groups would benefit more than white people.
Opinion: There should be only one consideration in who gets the vaccine first: who is most likely to die of covid, and how do we protect them. Anybody who is using any other analysis is engaging in an act of intellectual perversion. If your chief concern is “racial equity” such that a 20-year-old essential worker with no pre-existing conditions who happens to be black gets the vaccine before an 85-year-old with diabetes, you need to get your check yourself.
Paul Plante says
So what these medical people are saying is that in the United States of America, while all are equal, old white men are much less equal than everyone else, and that is by decree of the medical profession, which trade now gets to determine whose level of citizenship is below that of others, so that those lower levels of citizenship afford less protections, and that is what is being called the road or path to true equality in America.
But seriously, who can really be surprised at that?
Old WHITEY has been making the Black folks feel bad about themselves for years now, so it is time for the Black folks to make old WHITEY be the one who has to do the suffering.
Sounds like the medical trade is trying to stir up a new civil war in America.
Paul Plante says
This “anti-old white people” story takes us back to June 25, 2016 and the political strategy document “Resistance Rising: Socialist Strategy in the Age of Political Revolution,” where we had as follows:
As the life prospects of many white people in the 99% continue to decline, and as demographic tides shift steadily toward a United States in which people of color constitute a majority, this reactionary organizing is likely to grow ever more serious.
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Reading this article about these doctors making a determination reminiscent of the Nazis about who doesn’t deserve to live, in this case old white men, the thought comes to mind that these doctors are actively involved in causing the life prospects of white people in the 99% continue to decline, to cause demographic tides to shift steadily toward a United States in which people of color constitute a majority.
Continuing along through that strategy document, we next come to this:
In the absence of powerful multiracial coalitions capable of connecting the struggles of working people across race and ethnicity, appeals to racism and fear will continue to gain traction among economically and socially insecure white voters — particularly men, who face the erosion of traditional gender prominence due to the gains of the feminist movement — and the possibility of expanding desperately needed programs to assist the most vulnerable people in our society (let alone more ambitious programs pushing in the direction of democratic socialism) will be further diminished.
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Socially insecure white voters, particularly men?
Sounds like liberal white men to me.
Getting back to the anti-white sentiment of the strategy document, we have:
Historically the Left has been, and, despite the best intentions of many, continues to be dominated by white activists (often middle class men).
Organizations of the Left (including DSA) generally reflect the interests, aspirations, and cultural assumption of white working- and middle class individuals more than people of color.
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Isn’t that what democracy is supposed to be all about?
But wait, we’re not talking about democracy – we are talking about capturing raw political power, so the white people in the way have to be eliminated, and what better agent for that than COVID.
Some real sick **** we are seeing here, people, but truthfully, who can be surprised, which takes us back to the strategy document as follows:
Finally, racial/ethnic and sex/gender-based oppressions may well continue in a socialist society.
Hence a wide range of programs to dismantle the privileges associated with whiteness, maleness and heteronormativity would have to be developed, and antidiscrimination policies in the workplace and in social organizations would have to be intensified.
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Hence a wide range of programs to dismantle the privileges associated with whiteness, maleness and heteronormativity?
Hmmmmmm.
Sure does sound like a war on WHITEY to me, anyway, which again takes us back to that anti-white strategy document, to wit:
In order to overcome these divisions and forge deeper solidarities across the working class, it is essential that a disproportionately straight, white, male, English-speaking, mostly college-educated socialist organization such as DSA prioritize racial justice work and organize actively within struggles where racial, gender, class and sexual oppression intersect.
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Sounds like these people have some real serious mental and emotional issues here to me, as well as a superficial obsession with the color of someone’s skin, which is a sign of a real sick society in this country.
MJM says
Ya’ know Wayne, I don’t remember giving you permission to use my photo in here. The least you could have done was told me to brush my hair first. But seriously ? As I wait outside the Onley Medical Center in this photo waiting for my vaccine, I want you all to know I made sure to only eat 1/3 of my loaf of bread for breakfast. I can then save 1/3 for lunch and 1/3 for dinner. I ended up going home w/o a vaccine that day because it is not here yet. But as I look at this photo I am reminded that John Rambo was only looking for something to eat when he was rousted into a very personal war. We are all learning that passive complaints get nowhere and only violent protests by ANTIFA and BLM get proper representations in the media, and then positive results. Are we white male senior citizens going to need to all put on camo coats with a piece of tape above the pocket that names us Rambo ? Then we go wait in line at the door chanting I am next, don’t start this war ! Will the deputy take my cane and claim I threatened him with it ? Will the media even cover the story ? Let’s Roll Men !!! But it ain’t no freaking joke, is it ? I had fun dreaming it up though.