More Absurd Aboriginal Outrage

Vincent J. Curtis

8 May 2018

RE: OMA decision about privilege and racism

The demand by aboriginals for ritualistic denunciation and penance for colonization has gotten absurd.  The Ontario Medical Association is not that kind of political organization, and yet it is castigated by an aboriginal member, Dr. Nel Wieman, for declining to open a council meeting with such a statement.

India was subjected to British colonization as Canada was, and the president of the OMA appears to be of East Indian extraction.  So we have a Canadian aboriginal demanding that an East Indian apologize for British colonization!

The OMA Governing Council voted 105 - 65 against opening with the statement demanded.  And the OMA president is out there apologizing for the outcome of a democratic vote.  Apparently, if the minority acts offended enough, the majority is expected to reverse itself.  But what happens when that new minority acts offended enough itself - an infinite regress?

What is demanded is nothing less than that the OMA council be mau-maued into reversing its original decision, and then, in Chinese Red Guards fashion, have the medical doctors be subjected to “cultural competency training.”  In addition, ‘cultural safety and humility training be made mandatory for eligibility for all future council members.’

The OMA will go out of business if it caves to these demands.  In the long run the OMA would be better off if simply expelled members like Dr. Nel Wieman and carried on with its normal business undisturbed by irrelevant politics.

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