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Post by uniqueid » Sun, Jun 07, 2020, 3:44 PM UTC

kepler1 wrote: post #138

uniqueid wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

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 eff…

    > 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.