Johns Hopkins privilege list
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CrystalRaindrops — 2 years ago(January 14, 2024 12:54 AM)
Johns Hopkins was trending on X Thursday as people circulated a post showing a portion of a “Monthly Diversity Digest” that listed “privilege” as the diversity word of the month.
Privilege was defined as “a set of unearned benefits given to people who are in a specific social group.” In the U.S., the post said, “privilege is granted to people who have membership in one or more of these social identity groups: white people, able-bodied people, heterosexuals, cisgender people, males, Christians, middle or owning class people, middle-aged people, English-speaking people.”
The post also said, “Privilege is characteristically invisible to people who have it.”
An X account called “End Wokeness” posted the excerpt on Wednesday afternoon; it gained even higher visibility when Elon Musk responded to it Thursday morning, saying, “This must end.”
Two hours later, the “End Wokeness” account posted the image of an email from Dr. Sherita H. Golden, vice president and chief diversity officer of the John Hopkins Medicine Office of Diversity, Inclusion and Health Equity, expressing regret for the wording in the digest.
The language was “overly simplistic and poorly worded,” Golden said, adding, “I retract and disavow the definition I shared, and I am sorry. I will work to ensure that future messages better reflect our organizational values.”
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