Thread by @usnehal

The only feelings to center on are those of black community
Wrong use of this quote during the week of #DerekChauvinTrial

Some people “feel” things if a white male faces accountability
Amy Cooper’s feelings: call cops
Racism & racism lite has always focused on “feelings” #BLM

When @ayshakhoury or @uche_blackstock were authentic in their feelings: ended careers

Black female physician #DrSusanMoore having “knowledge” or a “voice”
while DYING
made others
*feel* “intimidated.”

This is part of a known pattern for WOC
@COCoQC
#BLM #BlackintheIvory

This is a repeating pattern of “feelings” used against tellers of uncomfortable truths that #MLK described in the letter from the Birmingham jail.

Seeking order > justice or overpolicing are all to protect only certain “feelings” of “security” while those like #adamtoledo die.

This desire for “order” is also the construct of Colonialism

France validates military dictators for “security” & “order” (yet bans a piece of cloth, hijab to “protect women”

Men with guns & no accountability do not protect women.

Whose feelings
whose lives
matter?

Centering on feelings of the colonizer/slave owner justifies exploitation & harm

Protecting fragile white feelings of fear, disgust, anger
kills POC

This was just 1-2 generations ago. These beliefs have not gone away.
Feelings from these beliefs are not ones to validate
#BLM

White women would both advance in careers & drive #innovation
AND stop harming POC

*if*
they would stop believing all of their own feelings
on fear vs “safety”
per driven cultural norms from past age of slavery & smelling salts

#womeninleadership #WomenInSTEM
#womeninmedicine

Article from @techreview on pushing boundaries as #womenintech #womeninleadership #womeninSTEM #WomenInScience

Acting on this, as a WOC, gets labeled as “harassment” or not #professionalism

We MUST use words
racism
#implicitbias
racist
even if others “uncomfortable”
#BLM

Am a HUGE critic of #professionalism
= system mechanism
structural & medical racism

I have offended those who have built careers in #Medbikini part of #healthcare = controlling behaviors of BIPOC, #LGBTQ, etc

criticism triggers negative feelings

centering these feeling = harm

These #accountability tweets
what standards?

make others feel badly
uncomfortable, embarrassed

But “#professionalism”:
racist
anti-#LGBTQ
anti-woman
anti-#mentalhealth

must go

#Doctor fired in #COVID19 #pandemic for smiling & dancing?
=anti-#publichealth #vaccine outreach

In fact, for #VaccineEquity #VaccinesWork
@The_BMC nurses, doctors, staff videos: critical

This is what effective #COVID19 #pandemic pro-#publichealth #SciComm looks like that both feels good & #VaccinesSaveLives for marginalized

@BostonTweet #BostonStrong #MedTwitter

From “do not smile”
“your hair wrong”
=harmful #professionalism beliefs

to wanting doctors & nurses
of color
working in #FQHC & safety net

fired

in a #pandemic

to no #VaccineEquity
-> ⬆️ disparities in #COVID19 mortality in Black & BIPOC

=harm

Center black
To ⬇️harm
#BLM

I made this error yesterday

Appreciated: publicly corrected

I still get allyship wrong
others can learn from errors I make so they don’t repeat them

I was NOT centering black - wrong
was stuck on my training in “standards”

Structural racism often has wrong standards
#BLM

Doctors like me
who are not black
will get it wrong
must stay humble, listen, learn, amplify black voices

We are a product of this #MedEd system
must decolonize our own minds & deconstruct racist thoughts & beliefs

System teaches:
Undertreat pain
Even harms babies
#BLM