A WOBBLY WARRIOR URGES RETREAT
TIME TO PURGE UN-AMERICAN, COMMUNIST UNIONS

SORRY UCLA, I WANT COMPETENCE OVER COLOR

The best argument for competence over color lies in the fundamental principles of fairness, equality, and meritocracy. Competence, skill, and capability are objective measures determining an individual’s ability to perform a task or excel in a particular field.

When competence is prioritized over color, it ensures that opportunities are awarded based on qualifications and achievements rather than superficial characteristics like race or ethnicity.

LUCERO

In today’s email, I received the following message from one of my healthcare providers… 

UCLA

PRIDE

Promoting Pride at UCLA Health

June is LGBTQ+ Pride Month and UCLA Health is excited to be part of the celebration!

The UCLA Health Pride Network — a group of 450 associates and allies — works year-round to promote LGBTQ+ health and wellness and empower LGBTQ+ employees. During Pride Month, they’ll be participating in community-centered events to celebrate PRIDE, and to promote LGBTQ+ health and wellness and our LGBTQ+ programs and initiatives that keep our community strong, healthy and well.

Look for UCLA Health at these Pride events:

  • LA Pride in the Park (June 8): Pride festival and musical performance (tickets required)
  • Annual LA Pride Parade (June 9): Our UCLA Health LGBTQ+ Champions will march in the LA Pride Parade in Hollywood and afterward share valuable health information at our UCLA Health booth, located in Pride Village.
  • Santa Clara River Valley Pride (June 23): Join us at the Santa Clara River Valley Pride event, which features a free brunch and community resources fair.

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I am more worried about who the UCLA Medical School may be graduating.

A Failed Medical School’: How Racial Preferences, Supposedly Outlawed in California, Have Persisted at UCLA
Up to half of UCLA medical students now fail basic tests of medical competence.

Whistleblowers say affirmative action, illegal in California since 1996, is to blame.

Long considered one of the best medical schools in the world, the University of California, Los Angeles’s David Geffen School of Medicine receives as many as 14,000 applications a year. Of those, it accepted just 173 students in the 2023 admissions cycle, a record-low acceptance rate of 1.3 percent. The median matriculant took difficult science courses in college, earned a 3.8 GPA, and scored in the 88th percentile on the Medical College Admissions Test (MCAT).

Without those stellar stats, some doctors at the school say, students can struggle to keep pace with the demanding curriculum.

So when it came time for the admissions committee to consider one such student in November 2021—a black applicant with grades and test scores far below the UCLA average—some members of the committee felt that this particular candidate, based on the available evidence, was not the best fit for the top-tier medical school, according to two people present for the committee’s meeting.

Their reservations were not well-received.

When an admissions officer voiced concern about the candidate, the two people said, the dean of admissions, Jennifer Lucero, exploded in anger.

“Did you not know African-American women are dying at a higher rate than everybody else?” Lucero asked the admissions officer, these people said. The candidate’s scores shouldn’t matter, she continued, because “we need people like this in the medical school.”

[OCS: Lucero should be removed from the admissions process for an obvious conflict of interest. Despite being the Associate Dean for Admissions at UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, she is also the Vice Chair for Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion for the Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine. Lucero is allowing her subjective opinions on racial  of dying individuals and the need for more medical students with the racial characters of those who have previously died.]

“I wondered,” the official added, “if this applicant had been [a] white male, or [an] Asian female for that matter, [whether] we would have had that much discussion.”

Since Lucero took over medical school admissions in June 2020, several of her colleagues have asked the same question. In interviews with the Free Beacon and complaints to UCLA officials, including investigators in the university’s Discrimination Prevention Office, faculty members with firsthand knowledge of the admissions process say it has prioritized diversity over merit, resulting in progressively less qualified classes that are now struggling to succeed.

Race-based admissions have turned UCLA into a “failed medical school,” said one former member of the admissions staff. “We want racial diversity so badly, we’re willing to cut corners to get it.”

Read more at the Washington Free Beacon.


Half of trainee doctors at UCLA’s prestigious medical school ‘are failing basic tests after dean who’s anti-white ignored affirmative action ban and terrorized staff with DEI rules’

A DEI-fixated dean at UCLA’s world-famous medical school has allowed standards to plummet by discriminating against white and Asian applicants, it is claimed.

The David Geffen School of Medicine in Los Angeles boasts Nobel Prize winners on its faculty and accepts just 173 students out of the 14,000 who apply to it each year.

But it has plunged from sixth to 18th place in the rankings since the appointment of Jennifer Lucero as dean of admissions in June 2020 amid claims that the admissions bar for underrepresented minorities is now ‘as low as you could possibly imagine’.

The number of students failing tests on basic medical knowledge has increased 10-fold in some subjects since 2020, the Free Beacon reported.

And a majority of students are now flunking standardized tests on emergency medicine, family medicine, internal medicine, and pediatrics among some cohorts.

The collapse in standards has turned the institution into a ‘failed medical school’ according to one former member of the admissions staff.

Admitting students on racial criteria has been banned in California since 1996 and outlawed federally since a Supreme Court ruling last year.

But faculty at the school said that Lucero has ignored bans on affirmative action and allegedly told colleagues she wanted a highly qualified white male candidate pushed down the residency rank list because ‘we have too many of his kind’.

Business was suspended for the day in 2021 when a Native American applicant was rejected and a furious Lucero made committee members sit through a two-hour lecture on indigenous history delivered by her own sister.

She is accused of stuffing the 25-strong admissions committee with her hand-picked members and terrorizing dissenters into silence by implying they are racist and threatening them with diversity training sessions.

Read more at the Daily Mail.

Common sense...

  • Meritocracy: Emphasizing competence promotes a meritocratic society where individuals are rewarded based on their talents, efforts, and achievements rather than factors beyond their control, such as skin color. This fosters a fair and just environment where everyone has the opportunity to succeed based on their abilities.

  • Optimal Utilization of Talent: Prioritizing competence ensures that the most skilled individuals are selected for roles, regardless of race or ethnicity. This leads to the optimal utilization of talent, enhancing productivity, innovation, and overall success in various fields, including academia, business, and government.

Bottom line...

Individuals should be evaluated based on their skills, qualifications, and character rather than superficial attributes like color, race, biological sex, expressed gender, and national origin.

Prioritizing competence over color is not only morally and ethically sound but also promotes a society that values fairness, equal opportunity, and diversity. By recognizing and rewarding individuals based on their abilities, we can create a more inclusive and meritocratic world where everyone has the opportunity to thrive.

Doing otherwise is a race to the bottom, a downward spiral that produces incompetence or mediocracy at best.

We are so screwed.

-- Steve


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