JOHNS HOPKINS IS BOTH WOKE AND GUTLESS

By Bob Walsh

 

Dr. Sherita Hill Golden’s list of privileged groups, per a staff email. 

 

Johns Hopkins University is without a doubt one of the premier medical institutions in the world.  Their Monthly Diversity Digest, since retracted (hence the gutless declaration), listed PRIVILEGE as the word of the month.  They define the word as, "a set of unearned benefits given to people who are in a specific social group" within the United States.  This digest further asserted that "privilege is granted to people who have membership in one or more of these social identity groups:  White people, able-bodied people, cisgender people, heterosexual people, Christians, males, middle class or owning class people, English speaking people and middle-aged people."  

 

Shortly after the excrement hit the air circulation device Dr. Sherita H. Golden, the chief diversity officer of the Johns Hopkins Medicine Office of Diversity, Inclusion and Health Equity, expressed "regret" for the wording of the digest.  She described it as both overly simplistic and poorly written.  She both retracted and disavowed the digest.  You notice she didn't say it was wrong.