Per Social Justice™ dogma, upon investigating literally any social ill, no matter how tangential its connection to race relations, one is guaranteed to discover at the bottom of the rabbit hole a robed KKK goon preying on vulnerable Persons of Color™ and other such protected classes: “The answer is White Supremacy™. I forgot the question.”
Anita Sarkeesian explained the ethos back in 2015, in the early days of the full-on kinetic Cultural Revolution that had been slow-burning since the 60s:
“Everything is sexist. Everything is racist. Everything is homophobic. And you have to point it all out.”
Via Mount Sinai:
A team of health equity researchers* from several institutions has leveraged a complex web of data to test a hypothesis: That structural racism is associated with resources and structures at the neighborhood level that are closely associated with poor health. What they found in an analysis of highly localized, community level data illustrates how racism is deeply interrelated with poor health outcomes.
Dinushika Mohottige, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Population Science and Policy, and Medicine (Nephrology), at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, served as first author of a paper published today in the journal JAMA Network Open that details the study.
*No matter how low you get, praise the good heavens you didn’t end up so miserable and twisted as to be a professional, full-time “health equity researcher.”
Via JAMA Network Open:
In this cross-sectional study of 150 neighborhoods in Durham County, North Carolina, an increased burden of structural racism indicators, including global (lower percentage of White individuals, lower economic and racial spatial advantage, and higher area deprivation) and discrete (higher reported violent crimes, evictions, poverty, unemployment, uninsurance, and child care center density, and lower election participation, income, and education) measures were associated with greater neighborhood prevalence of chronic kidney disease, diabetes, and hypertension.
So, what they did is look at a handful of neighborhoods in a single county in a single state, and from there extrapolate universal truths about how racism allegedly fuels poor health outcomes like high blood pressure.
They even included independent variables like “violent crime” as causing chronic disease — the assumption, unchallenged, being that violent crime is purely the product of racism.
I’m no professionally trained scientist, but it should be obvious to anyone with common sense how flawed this methodology is. However, let’s not let sound research models get in the way of a good story.
This latest narrative, though, isn’t just standard race-baiting by DEI grifters. It is that, but it’s also an attempt to smuggle yet another issue under the Public Health™ umbrella. The reason to classify any and everything as a Public Health™ emergency is to circumvent the normal political process and the accompanying checks on government power.
Related: Why Not Declare Obesity a 'Public Health Emergency'?
New York Governor Kathy Hochul did this same routine with gun control, as other governing authorities have with Climate Change™, COVID, etc.
Via WSKG:
New York formally declared gun violence as a public emergency Tuesday, allowing more flexibility for the state to immediately spend money on gun violence prevention and intervention services.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo, speaking to supporters in New York City, declared the emergency and outlined a multi-step plan to address gun violence, including new firearm laws.
“Gun Violence is not only taking a human toll. It's taking an economic toll,” Cuomo said. “So we have no choice but to address it. It's the right thing to do.”
As part of the new initiative, New York will create an Office of Gun Violence Prevention, housed in the state Department of Health. That office will be tasked with strategizing ways to reduce gun violence in New York, and overseeing that work.
