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You defeat your own cause by insisting that only people of the same race can help solve it. "Would you refuse to be treated by a doctor for cancer, unless he h

You defeat your own cause by insisting that only people of the same race can help solve it. "Would you refuse to be treated by a doctor for cancer, unless he himself has had cancer?"

uniqueid 6y ago
I would far prefer, other factors being equal, treatment from the doctor who has first-hand experience of my malady.
- kepler1 6y ago
  I guess doctors who treat end stage dementia need to have had it too? The wish to have a person of the same race solve the problems of race are understandable. But I would encourage you all to hope for the better situation which is that anyone with good ideas, regardless of race, should be considered as equally as someone else to solve our problems. Because, I have the feeling that your position leads to bad side effects. Like having very fragile victories. Like black voters (or young people) being very fickle and not turning out to vote because the person who might have good ideas doesn't look like them. Like not engaging or believing what someone says just because of their skin color. The very things you're fighting against. Take a longer term sustainable position and you will be better for it.
  - uniqueid 6y ago
    > I guess doctors who treat end stage > dementia need to have had it too? I did specify "other factors being equal." A brain disease is clearly a special case, since the real advantages bestowed by first-hand experience (eg: better empathy, fuller understanding of symptoms) are negated by the doctor also becoming a mental vegetable. Further, unless you equate being "black" with having brain damage, how would that example even apply to the original issue? The remainder of your comment rails against a position I do not hold, and did not claim to hold. My best guess is that you were thinking of Affirmative Action? Affirmative Action, as I answered someone else in this thread, is its own issue.
8note 6y ago
Steve Jobs was treated by someone who didn't know anything about cancer; that didn't turn out well

You defeat your own cause by insisting that only people of the same race can help solve it. "Would you refuse to be treated by a doctor for cancer, unless he himself has had cancer?"

uniqueid 6y ago

I would far prefer, other factors being equal, treatment from the doctor who has first-hand experience of my malady.

kepler1 6y ago
I guess doctors who treat end stage dementia need to have had it too? The wish to have a person of the same race solve the problems of race are understandable. But I would encourage you all to hope for the better situation which is that anyone with good ideas, regardless of race, should be considered as equally as someone else to solve our problems. Because, I have the feeling that your position leads to bad side effects. Like having very fragile victories. Like black voters (or young people) being very fickle and not turning out to vote because the person who might have good ideas doesn't look like them. Like not engaging or believing what someone says just because of their skin color. The very things you're fighting against. Take a longer term sustainable position and you will be better for it.
- uniqueid 6y ago
  > I guess doctors who treat end stage > dementia need to have had it too? I did specify "other factors being equal." A brain disease is clearly a special case, since the real advantages bestowed by first-hand experience (eg: better empathy, fuller understanding of symptoms) are negated by the doctor also becoming a mental vegetable. Further, unless you equate being "black" with having brain damage, how would that example even apply to the original issue? The remainder of your comment rails against a position I do not hold, and did not claim to hold. My best guess is that you were thinking of Affirmative Action? Affirmative Action, as I answered someone else in this thread, is its own issue.

8note 6y ago

Steve Jobs was treated by someone who didn't know anything about cancer; that didn't turn out well