These days, once-great academic institutions are fond of commissioning long reports into their historical ‘links’ with slavery, racism and/or eugenics. When the report inevitably finds that such ‘links’ exist and are very concerning, the institution issues a statement denouncing itself and promising to ‘do better’.
The latest example of an academic institution partaking in this ritual is the American Society of Human Genetics – publisher of the prestigious American Journal of Human Genetics.
On Tuesday, the ASHG released a lengthy report titled “Facing Our History – Building an Equitable Future Initiative”. The report was accompanied by the usual statement in which the institution “acknowledges and apologises, deeply and sincerely, for the participation of some ASHG founders, past presidents, and other leaders in promoting eugenic ideals that harmed people of minoritized groups”.
Poor black people in inner cities who are scared to leave their homes because violent criminals roam the streets can finally rest easy: an institution they’ve never heard of issued a statement they’ll never read! These statements aren’t about helping black people, of course. They’re about keeping activists off the backs of scientists, and making work for people with degrees in critical race theory.
Anyway, one paragraph in the statement did catch my eye. It outlines some of the “challenges” facing human genetics, one of which is “denouncing the warping of science for advocacy agendas”. Here, they’re presumably referring to the misuse of science to justify racism and eugenics.
What’s remarkable, though, is that the very same paragraph includes this sentence: “ASHG encourages individual members, peer societies, academic centres, agencies, industry partners and others to reflect on how everyone’s contributions will help foster inclusive equity agendas.”
So on the one hand, we must denounce the “warping of science for advocacy agendas”. But on the other, we must “help foster inclusive equity agendas”. You can’t make it up! They even managed to use the same word ‘agenda’ in both places.
The statement’s authors would no doubt assure us they’d never dream of warping science to foster an “inclusive equity agenda”. Only people with Bad agendas warp science! But this is what’s known in the technical jargon as a lie.
And the sentence I highlighted is far from the only place where the authors take an openly political stance. They begin by noting that ASHG has been “late in making explicit efforts to integrate equity, diversity, and inclusion into its values, programs, and voice”. And they further note that ASHG will continue “its recent actions to prioritise diversity, equity and inclusion”.
Now, the statement is attributed to the American Society of Human Genetics Board of Directors – who are serious researchers, not CRT grads who happened to land jobs in a genetics department. So the fact that it includes such blatant hypocrisy is telling.
Perhaps these distinguished scientists weren’t able to spot the contradiction? I doubt it – you’d never catch them making such an obvious contradiction in one of their scientific papers. More likely is that it didn’t bother them because they weren’t addressing other scientists; they were addressing activists (or they were addressing other scientists in their capacity as activists).
Either the Board didn’t see it as a contradiction because they’re true believers in DIE, or they did see it as a contradiction but included it anyway because they know what the activists want to hear.
I don’t know which is true. But we’ve got to the point where a group of leading scientists can engage in the politicisation of science, while denouncing others for politicising science – all within the same paragraph – and the rest of the profession acts like this is normal.
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Not just Americans. Every country. And the more “developed” the more it is like that.
And if I’m perfectly honest, I see no escape from this except when the machinery collapses, as it eventually must. But the misery we will have to endure in the meantime for those of us who just want to be left alone and free to live our lives how we want will be almost unbearable.
Indeed, such a thing is really a dead letter in any individual nation who decides that it is. Especially in the USA. Contrary to what some loose constructionists believe, international treaties do NOT supersede the Constitution.
It is ‘appeals to International Law’ that are now the last home of scoundrels…
“The WHO Pandemic Treaty is ‘Binding’ But it’s Not Enforceable”
As I have posted many times – the rule of law is now a fiction and applies ONLY if it suits those controlling the narrative.
Indeed.
It will be enforced through the UN, WTO, trade agreements, financial flows (or ending them), sanctions, and endless propaganda through the fake news and faker science. Once this signed it will be updated in ’25, ’26, ’27….and if a country does not participate in Rona Scamdemic Part 2 can you imagine the insufferable wailing from the usual cadre of idiots?
“The Science has confirmed that Slovakia, a non-signatory to the world-saving WHO agreement of 2024, is experiencing a mass genocide and rampant death because it refuses the magic mRNA stabbinations, LDs and diapers…the EU dictator VdL warns that the EU will cut off all trade, investment and exchange with the pariah state if it does not follow EU rules and ‘values’…the US DoD has announced that an invasion of the genocidal state might be needed to ‘save democracy from fascism in Europe’….” etc
Absolutely.
Yes it doesn’t matter if the treaty is binding, people like Sturgeon would be in competition with another Boris or that Bit@h from New Zealand whose name is hard to spell. If Sturgeon wan in competition with Sweden on who could be more ‘liberal’ that would be another matter. But fascism is back with the public-private partnerships.
Well, talking from the UK, our bureaucrats will be very keen to implement such measures without any democratic consultation. Look at their track record. The provisions will be silently incorporated into relevant guidelines, policy and legislation in just the same way as the Agenda 2030 Sustainability provisions.
“our bureaucrats will be very keen to implement such measures without any democratic consultation.”
This statement requires NO debate.
Don’t think the Tories will miss the last chance they have to dump a final huge turd on the British people for their controllers before they are booted out.
“The threat from WHO proposals come not from outside but from within. We live in a managerial age, run by a technocratic elite. Over time, they have acquired for themselves the discretion to direct society for the common good, as they declare it to be.”
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Precisely, it’s why the “Elite” in the House of Frauds, Parliament, the CS etc use the cover of the ECHR to prevent us from controlling our borders and deporting those who have no right to be here.
It’s why those same people want us signed up to the WHO’s power-grab. It’s so the next time they declare a “crisis” or scamdemic they can remove our Civil and Human Rights; lock us down and claim that they have no choice because the WHO has told them to.
Exactly.
We will not be signing away our sovereignty but when the WHO declares a PHEIC we will make a decision in the House of Parliament to go along with it. Not because the WHO dictates are binding – oh good heavens no – but simply because it will be in our interests to do so. All for the public good. A sort of “save Granny on steroids.”
And when he highlight that demographics suggest that we will be replaced in a few decades, they come up with ‘stirring up racial hatred’ with vague interpretations so you can’t even raise awareness when imported criminals are dumped into a small community. UK Column covered the ‘Hate Legislation’ today.
That is exactly how bureaucrats operate. They are always just doing what they’re told, supposedly. Bit somehow they love it.
Become ungovernable. Voting won’t get us out of this.
Feel free to quote me GDA:
Our salvation will not arrive via the ballot box.
Is anyone else sick to death of seeing the Gormless face of Tedros the Terror1st !!!…
National Sovereignty is under threat.
“The emerging ‘environmentalization’ of our civilization and the need for vigorous action in the interest of the entire global community will inevitably have multiple political consequences. Perhaps the most important of them will be a gradual change in the status of the United Nations. Inevitably, it must assume some aspects of a world government.” Mikhail Gorbachev
“The concept of national sovereignty has been immutable, indeed a sacred principle of international relations. It is a principle which will yield only slowly and reluctantly to the new imperatives of global environmental cooperation.”
UN’s Commission on Global Governance
“Government in the future will be based upon . . . a supreme office of the biosphere. The office will comprise specially trained philosopher/ecologists. These guardians will either rule themselves or advise an authoritarian government of policies based on their ecological training and philosophical sensitivities. These guardians will be specially trained for the task”
David Shearman [IPCC Assessor for 3rd and 4th climate change reports]
“For the first time, humanity is instituting a genuine instrument [Kyoto Protocol] of global governance,’…”By acting together, by building this unprecedented instrument, the first component of an authentic global governance, we are working for dialogue and peace.”
Jacques Chirac
As part of the WHO Pandemic Treaty their annual budget will go from $3.5 billion of variable donations, a good portion from Gates Foundation, to $33 billion of fixed country payments. Let’s not forget what this is all about. Bill Gates modus operandi, as he has done with GAVI, is to get governments to fund his philanthropic programs, while he still maintains control. Ghebreyesus previously worked for Gates in one of his vaccine organizations and has been put in place by Bill Gates. So now we end up with an Oligarch controlled world wide vaccine delivery organization paid for with your tax money. Just what the world doesn’t need. Gates is currently ranked as the 7th most powerful person in the world, he soon will be number 1. The UK PM does not rank in the top 10.
The Tories are not going to let their controllers down. This may be the last big turd they have the chance to dump on the British people.