Thread by @usnehal

Both/and. The issues of manipulation of our reality is true. That said, I have seen some of the most educated and supposedly intelligent so-called skeptics engage in high school types of clique behavior and had their biases exploited as @RogueRad references below.

https://twitter.com/RogueRad/status/1309915310321958919

The other thing I have noticed is that rivalries in healthcare

that have long existed between doctors

now expanded to all the different types of clinicians
+
healthcare industry professionals.

Savvy non-clinicians exploit the backstabbing, bullying culture of healthcare

This is so pronounced that @TJCommission has published this on it including using the term “sabotage.”

These are things typically done via gossip, in the dark, without due process as compared to use of transparency and appropriate mechanisms

In regards to the “hidden curriculum” towards POC in healthcare, the usual process is to create gossip, defame, create doubt, negatively label, use nebulous or flat out wrong “professionalism” or “you did something wrong” standard prior to an official action as per @COCoQC

As a pediatrician, I look back on my career and the many times I have signed papers and I am horrified at wondering how many times I was the hand (literally) of an unjust system and the so-called “model minority.” See concerning attitudes among peers too.

sfonline.barnard.edu/unraveling-cri…

Recent #BlackintheIvory highlighted this

nature.com/articles/d4158…

aaup.org/sites/default/…

Bullying or cliques not limited to race, but when bullying & cliques exist, race will be used for labels of who is “wrong”, “bad”, or “out group” for censure, isolation, blocking

So #MedTwitter’s cliques makes it a prime space for bullying based on policing others, in particular the “safe space” concept.

“Safe”
for whom?
from whom?

If you are not Black or BIPOC, your idea of safe space may actually be oppression/suppression

thetemper.com/the-real-safe-…

I see an unofficial segregation of #BlackTwitter and #BlackMedTwitter from #MedTwitter and times I have invited those from the former into spaces of the latter... wow.. not pretty. Many people simply can not tolerate anything that is not validation and 🏆
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Some the most vocal on #equity are really “fakequity”

hashtag use signals what should be a safe space

then react with violent emotions

when their ego, image, control threatened

by a removal of silos and real, uncontrolled communication

fakequity.com

@mdawriter breaks it down perfectly - there is always a need to anticipate and mitigate the other’s emotional reaction and fragility

This fragility is exacerbated by the “safe spaces”, silos, blocking, cliques, & odd belief one can have “boundaries” in a place like Twitter

https://twitter.com/mdawriter/status/1257023276100050945

There are SO many other ways, apart from race, that one can create “boundaries” (live in a bubble where you never hear anything different from your own beliefs and only ever get validation) - and that is why people ask “What happened to America”? Nothing happened. You were

Alternatively, there are those whose tweets are primarily to ridicule others. That’s also a great way to be unaware and engage in cliquish behaviors that reinforce bubbles of ignorance of the world outside of your own limited one.

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