A health care watchdog group is demanding that Johns Hopkins Medicine eliminate its Diversity, Equity and Inclusion program after its boss created a “toxic culture” by declaring all white, Christian and male people “predominant.”
Do No Harm denounced the elite institution’s “empty” apology after Dr. Sherita Hill Golden, chief diversity officer for the hospital system, sent out a staff-wide memo last week that defined privilege as “a set of unearned benefits granted to people who belong to a particular social group.”
“Johns Hopkins needs to completely eliminate their DEI department and channel those resources toward the primary objective of preparing the next generation of health care professionals to provide high-quality care to all patients,” Kristina Rasmussen, executive director of Do No Harm, told The Post.
“They have created a toxic culture rooted in DEI ideology that corrupts and indoctrinates the students they are tasked with training to become the next generation of medical professionals.”
“Their feeble apology is not enough, and our campaign is focused on raising awareness of the discriminatory ideas taught to students and the hostile workplaces imposed on employees.”
The group — which is “focused on keeping identity politics out of medical education, research and clinical practice” — also used mobile billboards in DC Thursday in protest of the DEI program.
Do No Harm uses mobile billboards in DC protesting the Johns Hopkins DEI program. Provided that the Billboard will be placed on the school campus on Thursday.
“Racism is still racism when DEI officials say it,” the poster, emblazoned alongside Golden’s face and The Post’s original report, said.
The mobile billboard will spend Thursday driving around Johns Hopkins’ Baltimore campus and hospital, the group said.
The school drew national outrage last week after Golden emailed a “monthly diversity pamphlet” to staff that outlined a limited definition of privilege, which he claimed operates on a “personal, interpersonal, cultural and institutional level.”
Whites, able-bodied people, heterosexuals, cisgender people, men, Christians, middle-class people or owners, middle-aged people and English-speaking people are among the privileged social groups listed in the letter.
Dr. Sherita Hill Golden faces backlash over her definition of “privilege.” X/@EndWokeness List of special groups Dr. Sherita Hill Golden, per staff email. X/@EndWokeness
Tesla CEO Elon Musk and former President Donald Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr — both white, cisgender and English-speaking men — were among those who condemned the memo.
Golden retracted his definition of privilege and issued an apology to staff after the backlash.
“The newsletter included a definition of the word privilege that, upon reflection, I deeply regret,” he wrote in the memo. “The intent of the newsletter is to inform and support the inclusive community at Hopkins, but the language of this definition clearly does not meet that goal.
Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. TNS
“In fact, because it’s too simplistic and poorly worded, it has the opposite effect,” he continued. “I retract and reject the definition I shared and I apologize.”
The apology was insincere, Do No Harm argued, adding that dismantling the DEI program was the only way to right the wrongs.
The group points to Golden’s second position as head of DEI for the American Society of Clinical Investigation, which offers a post-BA scholarship program available only to students who are “underrepresented in medicine and science.”
“It is clear that DEI’s harmful influence on Dr. Golden is widespread in the medical community and deserves additional research,” Do No Harm said.
The Post left a message with Johns Hopkins.
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