Mass General Brigham introduces another equity-based policy assured of making life worse for black Americans

These Ivy League social-reform lunatics all but shout, "We're lying! Screw the blaaaaaaacks!" in their press releases. But they're also insanely well-funded, so their crazy-car motors on unchecked

Mass General Brigham is a not-for-profit corporation headquartered just outside of Boston. This outfit was created in 2019 from the fusion of two Boston business rivals healthcare providers, Mass General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. As of 2022, MGB was reporting annual revenues in the range of $18 billion, suggesting that were this not-for-profit operation in the business of making money rather than merely making life better for everyone, some of its principals might be worth serious coin.

On April 2, MGB announced that it had finally solved the problem of “crack babies” and other infants born to drug-addicted mothers: Attribute the phenomenon to structural racism and pretend on this basis that a serious public-health problem assured of spilling forward into future generations—if any—is simply not consequential or even happening at all.

The two most important details about the story from a skeptical perspective are 1) it does not mention pregnant women at all, instead referring four times to “pregnant people,” and 2) an MGB doctor claimed the change is “based on sound science.” No one—not one person alive—who non-ironically exchanges the term “pregnant women” for the term “pregnant people” is operating in a scientific realm. So, whatever else is in this story, it is necessarily insincere, not founded in rationally derived conclusions, and almost certain as a result to be both frivolous and destructive.

The doctor making the claim about “sound science” is a standard beaming white moron paid large sums of money by Harvard University to expel moronic racialist ideas.

Dr. Sarah Wakeman probably never encountered a poor black person other than dodging them on the street until she was at least 22 years old. She probably cannot climax without having vicious insults shouted in her face or imagining herself being degraded, perhaps with the use of smeared feces, because deep inside she knows she deserves this. Moreover, her MGB page advertises that in her professional role as a provider of medical services, Wakeman takes gobs of grant cash ostensibly aimed at addressing a lethal and burgeoning public-health problem and blows it on whimsical race-based “solutions” she absolutely has to know, especially as an addiction specialist, will worsen life markedly for everyone affected.

The press release about the new policy on the MGB site is written entirely in Wokish English, a subversive dialect in which thousands of normal-minded Americans have been forced to achieve fluency just to determine what the Wokish even mean, let alone what kind of handouts they want or what institutions they want to incinerate. The document avoids the word “women” but invokes “birthing persons” twice and “pregnant people” eight times.

If there is a money sentence, it’s this one:

Studies — including some within our system — have found that Black pregnant people are more likely to be drug tested and to be reported to child welfare systems than white pregnant people.

We can assume from this and other information, and without making moral judgments, that black pregnant women are more likely to take drugs of abuse while pregnant than other women. And we can infer from the proposed solution that Dr. Wakeman and others at MGB believe that a higher likelihood of having drugs in one’s system just a fact of black physiological life, like a higher concentration of certain pigments in the epidermis.

I guess these progressives could be right; perhaps black people can’t help themselves, so the system should help them further by not interfering in any way when they see an infant about to leave the hospital with an actively drug-addicted mother. Maybe something inherent about black people makes them more likely to become addicted to drugs, however far-fetched that seems.

On the other hand, maybe looking at this from outside the perspective of a privileged beaming white person could be useful. Maybe even someone who has been addicted to drugs—a white person, since that’s important—and been to treatment centers and recovery sessions rich in both black clients and black staff members.

Have these idiots suggested that food prices doubling over a five-year period—a period ravaged by lockdowns and other systematic disruptions to the urban poor, including absentee police, prosecutors, and judges in the most affected areas—might be contributing to the malaise of the poor in general, and that black people tend to be poor at catastrophic rates? Where's the noise about that from these complacent fucks?

Nowhere, obviously. These people are just as committed to corporate hackdom as the members of the boards of Kroger and Albertson’s (currently merging) who have gleefully boosted prices in their supermarkets while lying about ongoing supply-chain problems and other externalities.

The equity mavens at MGB are an energetic lot. In 2022, they discovered that a different aspect of structural racism was at work: Black people at hospitals were triggering more calls for security.

Could black patients be more often giving people around them plausible reasons to call security than other patients? Maybe the presence of weapons or known gang members? Or could the fact that black people are saddled with more mind-altering drugs (however unavoidably) be linked in any way to this finding? Apparently not.

Regardless of what’s causing these disparities, everyone should ask themselves whether this policy is more likely to make life better for the families involved and for society in general, or whether it’s likely to make life worse for the same people.

What’s really tragic is that I know earnest people who will readily accept the various grim realities of this situation—the decisions made by high-ranking medical personnel required to get here, the vast sums of money involved that ensure the viability of equity-powered hull-damage to already underwater demographics—yet will still not even consider that the same callous insanity on grand scale is exactly what powered the mRNA-jabs campaign and the millions of injuries, chronic illnesses, and deaths this glorious venture has induced. Too bad. The psychopaths behind this whole movement may be taking aim at the most vulnerable citizen targets first, but in the end we’re all annoyances and detritus to the major lever-movers regardless of surface-level identity.