Source: Common Dreams
by Rupa Marya
“Ignoring a genocide or pretending it is not happening is not ‘a difference of opinion’. It is a racist ideology. This ideology does not belong in medicine. Decolonizing medicine requires understanding that we will not have health equity as long as racism is baked into the very structures of medicine. Decolonizing medicine is not about tweaking who is at the top of the pecking order or playing into liberal identitarianism, which, as Dr. King accurately diagnosed, ‘is more devoted to ‘order’ than to justice.’ Decolonizing medicine requires reimagining the order altogether, because the one that exists was created in a time of subjugating women, queer, Indigenous, chronically ill, Black/brown, immigrant and other people deemed ‘deplorables’ by European colonial standards.” (01/26/25)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/from-colonial-to-liberation-medicine