Comments on: Desperation Of Sorts: Sensitivity & Respect, Please… http://storyofhealing.com/2007/10/03/desperation-of-sorts-sensitivity-respect-please/ Journeys in Life and Medicine Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:15:55 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: daisy http://storyofhealing.com/2007/10/03/desperation-of-sorts-sensitivity-respect-please/#comment-3712 daisy Wed, 03 Oct 2007 23:38:00 +0000 http://ksdescartin.wordpress.com/2007/10/03/desperation-of-sorts-sensitivity-respect-please/#comment-3712 GRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!! GRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!

]]> By: Gerry Manacsa http://storyofhealing.com/2007/10/03/desperation-of-sorts-sensitivity-respect-please/#comment-3710 Gerry Manacsa Wed, 03 Oct 2007 19:02:50 +0000 http://ksdescartin.wordpress.com/2007/10/03/desperation-of-sorts-sensitivity-respect-please/#comment-3710 In general, I'm a strong advocate of free speech and a common-sense approach to discourse that avoids the stifling and counter-productive effects of rigid political correctness. So in cases like this, I try to step back and look at the statements in question with some dispassion (this, despite my own ethnic background as a Filipino-American). In this example, the test was simple. Take the original statement from the show: "Can I just check those diplomas because I just want to make sure that they are not from some med school in the Philippines." and make it a fill-in-the-blank: "Can I just check those diplomas because I just want to make sure that they are not _________________." Now, substitute a group of your choice: "Can I just check those diplomas because I just want to make sure that they are not from some all-women's college." "Can I just check those diplomas because I just want to make sure that they are not from a traditionally African-American college." Do those statements make you cringe? <em>Should</em> they make most of us cringe? If so, then they went over the line on this one. In general, I’m a strong advocate of free speech and a common-sense approach to discourse that avoids the stifling and counter-productive effects of rigid political correctness. So in cases like this, I try to step back and look at the statements in question with some dispassion (this, despite my own ethnic background as a Filipino-American).

In this example, the test was simple. Take the original statement from the show:

“Can I just check those diplomas because I just want to make sure that they are not from some med school in the Philippines.”

and make it a fill-in-the-blank:

“Can I just check those diplomas because I just want to make sure that they are not _________________.”

Now, substitute a group of your choice:

“Can I just check those diplomas because I just want to make sure that they are not from some all-women’s college.”

“Can I just check those diplomas because I just want to make sure that they are not from a traditionally African-American college.”

Do those statements make you cringe? Should they make most of us cringe? If so, then they went over the line on this one.

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