• Ilovethebomb@lemmy.nz
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    I’m so incredibly sick of this mentality, and it needs to change.

    Just because one group of people have been treated poorly in the past, doesn’t mean the solution is to treat a different group badly in response. Tit for Tat isn’t the way forward.

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      They are saying statistically some ethnicities are sicker than others and they should be looked at earlier. Nothing wrong with that.

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          “At a basic fundamental level, when a Māori patient hits that surgical wait list they’re already far behind their non-Māori counterparts."

          Seems pretty straight-forward to me.

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            1 year ago

            That sounds like utter bullshit to me, we should be trying to fix the underlying system, rather than countering perceived racism with more racism.

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          Do they though?

          If the triage was being done correctly there would be no need for a change in policy. Obviously it’s not and obviously it’s hurting some ethnicities more than others.

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                Not being racist in the first place, rather than trying to even things out with a different type of racism?

                Didn’t you read my first comment?