Saviorism is killing minorities
A study on lowering life expectancies willfully ignores key data
1. Medical researchers intentionally ignore racial data while studying lowered life expectancies
We have a real problem in America. The past two years have seen a decline in lifespans, something not seen before. Yes, Covid played a part but there’s more going on.
Unfortunately, the scientists and NPR story are pushing anti-Americanism cloaked in science. The headline makes that clear: “'Live free and die?' The sad state of U.S. life expectancy.”
It contains the usual skewed charts that make the drop look like WE’RE ALL GOING TO DIE TOMORROW. It also compares the U.S. to a hand-selected list of countries that recovered from their Covid death drop to drive the point harder.
But then, I read comments from scientists that were both bizarre and angering.
Instead of digging into the demographics to find out exactly what’s going on, they intentionally ignored them.
That’s the opposite of science (and humanity). Declining lifespans are something we need to study and figure out what’s going on. Look at regions, age levels, race, sex … anything that could offer clues to turn it around.
Instead they said the following:
"We went into this with an open mind as to why it is that the U.S. had a shorter life expectancy than people in other countries," says Woolf, who chaired the committee that produced the report. After looking across different age and racial and economic and geographic groups, he says, "what we found was that this problem existed in almost every category we looked at."
That's why … they made a deliberate choice to focus on the health of the U.S. population as a whole.
"That was a decision – not to emphasize the differences in our population, because there is data that actually shows that even the top proportion of the U.S. population does worse than the top proportion of other populations," [Eileen Crimmins] explains. "We were trying to just say – look, this is an American problem."
So they made a deliberate choice to ignore demographic details so they could “just say … this is an American problem.”
When I read that quote, I first thought it was code for “We don’t want minorities to look or feel bad, so we’re going to ignore the data.” After a bit of research, I confirmed that my first thought was accurate.
Harvard Medical School reports that among the dropping life expectancy numbers, we see the following decreases:
2.1 years for Asian Americans.
2.4 years for white Americans
4.0 years for black Americans
4.2 years for Hispanic Americans
6.6 years for the American Indian/Alaska Native population
These articles show that while shorter life spans affect everybody, they REALLY affect different groups worse.
Any scientist who ignores that gap is actively harming those groups and should retire. And any science reporter, like NPR’s Selena Simmons-Duffin, who lets scientists gloss over this glaring fact with no questions asked is in the wrong profession.
Even more ominous in the data is that this shorter life expectancy issue isn’t as much old people dying, but young people dying prematurely.
The proper scientific and journalist response is to really figure out what’s going on, so policymakers and regular people can be smarter, and live longer. Instead, we have overly race-conscious saviorism making peoples’ lives worse, and shorter.
2. NPR says something ridiculous, retracts it a few days later.
It’s an NPR double-header today. You don’t need a medical degree to shake your head at this one.
NPR later added a correction that admitted:
Existing research shows that higher levels of testosterone do impact athletic performance. But there’s limited research involving elite trans athletes in competition.
3. Criticizing China leads to Asian hate crimes?
Don’t believe this nonsense.
The story opens with a Korean-American woman who’s afraid to go to the grocery store, out to dinner with friends, or do pretty much anything outdoors in central Pennsylvania. Basically, she has a mental illness.
So CNN used her to make a point that grilling the CEO of TikTok by a “hostile House committee” led to her anxiety. Hear that, Republicans? You’re not protecting America from Chinese espionage, you’re making Ellen Min stay locked in her home!
It’s not even the Asian community as a whole that’s complaining. It’s the everything-is-all-about-race-always gang at CNN.
4. A shooting I’m not talking about
I have a lot of thoughts about the 2nd Amendment, rising crime and shootings, and transgenderism. For now, I’ll keep them to myself.
America would be a better country if everyone didn’t immediately use a tragedy to make political points, no matter how well intentioned they are. I’ll start with me.
The decline in life expectancy has gone on in the U.S. much longer than 2 years. The death rate from drug poisoning has been attributed to the cause. Yet, it remains ignored by our legislators that could make change.
Race based & biased longevity
When its the minorities who live longest IE Asian women, men alone.
Bad optics
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