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[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 99 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)
[–] the_itsb@hexbear.net 60 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Blacks often report higher pain intensity

plus

Black people don't feel pain

makes for a horrifying revelation of the depth of the impunity they feel when they enact violence and indifference on black bodies

I knew it was bad, but jfc

[–] sovietknuckles@hexbear.net 30 points 1 year ago

Black people don't feel pain

makes for a horrifying revelation of the depth of the impunity they feel when they enact violence and indifference on black bodies

That particular falsehood has roots in America's history of slavery. From the same racist doctor who decided that slaves fleeing captivity had "drapetomania":

Dr. Samuel Cartright, for instance, wrote that blacks bore a “[racist slur] disease [making them] insensible to pain when subjected to punishment”

source: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1516047113

[–] motherfucker@hexbear.net 36 points 1 year ago

Help! I operated on a bunch of black people with no anesthesia to write all these textbooks and now our med students are racist against black people!

[–] Red_Eclipse@hexbear.net 97 points 1 year ago (17 children)

Blacks often report higher pain intensity than other cultures

Isn't this code for "they're faking it"? Holy shit.

What book is this from?

[–] the_itsb@hexbear.net 43 points 1 year ago

That's exactly how I read it.

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[–] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 72 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I came across this post on Reddit initially and one of the comments accompanying the thread pretty much sums up my thoughts on the matter lmao

Whites: cracker

Whites are likely to request pain medication no matter the circumstance. In White mythology, pain medication is seen as sacred and is used in a ritual process called "getting high"

Willing to admit and prone to exaggerate pain as it elevates their status to show others how much their life sucks

Some Whites will reject medical procedures until traditional witchcraft practices such as "homeopathy" and "chicken noodle soup" are tried first

According to White lore, persons with skin tones darker then uncooked pizza dough are subhuman animals. Whites are likely to reject medical attention from such persons and request a similarly melanin-deficient nurse or doctor to treat them

They may ask for your birthday as they believe your whole-ass personality is determined by it according to their sacred calendar

Will ask for the manager

[–] TillieNeuen@hexbear.net 67 points 1 year ago

"We need cultural sensitivity training in med school." One finger on the monkey's paw curls.

[–] Finger@hexbear.net 64 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No need for a section on Caucasians, everyone who reads that book is already gonna know how they act.

[–] Rom@hexbear.net 52 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No doubt they consider white people the "default."

[–] HornyOnMain@hexbear.net 57 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Many clients view pain negatively

No shit sherlock

[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

People die if they are killed

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[–] ShareThatBread@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago

They’re being culturally sensitive in order to be inclusive of all the Cenobite patients.

[–] Parsani@hexbear.net 50 points 1 year ago
[–] NotErisma@hexbear.net 47 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Sacred number??!?!

Shamans????

OH FUCK OFF

[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 45 points 1 year ago

The American education system is wild. jesus-christ

[–] Parzivus@hexbear.net 45 points 1 year ago

They believe suffering and pain are inevitable

TIL Black = Buddhist

[–] Outdoor_Catgirl@hexbear.net 42 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wtf? "Blessed by a tribal shaman"???? Not that the rest isn't racist, but that's cartoonishly racist.

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

idk the Jewish one and the "Blacks often report higher pain intensity than other cultures" (counterpoint: black reports of pain are more often ignored or downplayed) seem, like, precision-engineered racist while that Native American one seems more like a low-effort caricature.

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[–] SerLava@hexbear.net 40 points 1 year ago

What if med school was just a boomer on a mic repeating "what's the deeeal with Native Americans?"

[–] wtypstanaccount04@hexbear.net 39 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This textbook was published in 2015 and was pulled from use in 2017

Also wow Nursing Times no need to add the quotation marks. That book is racist not 'racist'.

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[–] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 38 points 1 year ago

We can't have universal healthcare but we can have universal phrenology in our healthcare

[–] build_a_bear_group@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago

WTF, there are citation dates as late as 2009 in that book, meaning it was written after! This is on the same level of racist as when my brother found a 1940's biology book in a storage closet of our school that discussed

CW racism


The four subspecies of human: White, removed, Negroid, and Americanoid. And then list generalized "genetic" traits of each

[–] radiofreeval@hexbear.net 30 points 1 year ago

These publishers should eat-ass

[–] KLISHDFSDF@lemmy.ml 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] kristina@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

a section on jews shrek-pixel-despair

where is the section about the angloid skull shape??

[–] Gelamzer@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why do americans call black PEOPLE "blacks"

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[–] uralsolo@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] Zyansheep@programming.dev 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Holy shit, what book is this and is it still used?

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[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago

brb, gonna go suffer so I can ensure my place in the Eternal Kingdom of Paradise

[–] Gelamzer@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Ok first of all not like 80% of muslims are not arabs.

Second of all whats the point of seperating Asians and Arabs

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[–] MCU_H8ER2@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago

Arabs and Muslims may prefer to be with family when they are in pain

shocked-pikachu

[–] a_talking_is2@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They vary widely in their expression of pain. Some are stoic and some are expressive.

Ah yes, the famous distinguishing characteristic only Hispanics possess.

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[–] ennemi@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago

Reminds me of a big argument I had with a friend of mine a while ago because some book in his college management class were teaching him that women are more prone to internal conflict and interpersonal drama, and should therefore be managed differently. That was in like 2015.

[–] WoofWoof91@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

i would rather have a homeopathy quack than a yankee doctor, jesus christ

[–] motherfucker@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago

a homeopathy quack

a yankee doctor

same-picture more often than you’d think. Look up the Institute for Functional Medicine, particularly some of the lawsuits they’ve been involved with. Hospitals will pay for their physicians to attend these “professional development” conferences where they get to watch licensed doctors refuse to answer questions about the efficacy of vaccines.

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