I’ve been a registered nurse for 16 years. In 2021 I began working in the emergency department at Meritus Medical Center in Hagerstown, Md., rising to assistant clinical manager in February 2023. Since I oversaw nurses, my highest priority after providing the best care to patients was protecting my team. That’s what got me into trouble.
Like many states, Maryland has been foisting DEI courses on medical professionals for several years. Since 2022 the state has required that all healthcare professionals take “implicit bias” training, largely in response to worries about black maternal mortality. The state has also committed to reducing disparities in severe maternal morbidity between black and white women over the next three years. My hospital began using a course called “B.I.R.T.H Equity Maryland,” which stands for Breaking Inequality Reimagining Transformative Healthcare.
In January, Meritus sent me materials for another DEI course for hospital leaders. The materials asserted, among other things, that the U.S. is built on “an ideology of White supremacy that justifies policies, practices and structures which result in social arrangements of subordination for groups of color through power and White privilege.”
The mounting politicization of the workplace frustrated me, so on Feb. 7 I posted what I thought was an innocuous message to my Facebook page: “No employer has the right to invade the unconscious spaces of it’s [sic] employees minds in an attempt to reprogram them into thinking certain ways. If your employer… Read more
@PeskyPolicyLibertarian2mos2MO
Can you sue them?
At will employees can be fired for improper reasons. There is no recourse. I suggested organizing a boycott of Meritus by all health care professionals.
@Pr0gressiveHarperRepublican2mos2MO
That isn't true. Hundreds of at will employees sue for wrongful termination every day.
@TomatoeBertRepublican2mos2MO
seems like a simple case of discrimination based on a biased HR/corporate culture conjuring up a perceived transgression. contrary opinions aren’t grounds for firing.
My wife is a RN/JD and was fired after 11 years working 77 hours a week for an RN association because we believe a monority fellow employee (on the job for 90 days) accused her of bias/ racism.
Not fair but legal
@GiddyCougarVeteran2mos2MO
Force feeding of DEI theory, and enforcement against countervailing points of view is America’s version of China’s Cultural Revolution. Ironically, the current crop of Chinese leadership loves seeing this happen in the U.S. They understand that its divisive and hate-enforcing ideology weakens America.
@AnnoyedT4riffNo Labels2mos2MO
DEI: Divide, Exclude, Intimidate
The hospital administrators are the ones who should be fired for being totalitarian enforcers of the DEI horde. The book 1984 warned about "thought police" and the Meritus bureaucracy has embraced it fully.
@F3deralistCockatooUnity2mos2MO
To me, the outrageously offensive part of this DEI nonsense is the premise that if you are "white", you are by definition a racist and this can be mitigated by intensive political re-education such as the camps in Mao's China, but the stain of this original "sin" of being white can never really be cleansed.
@T3rritorialSmeltMountain2mos2MO
Correct. The evil of "whiteness" cannot be expunged. Also, according to no less an oracle than Ibram X. Kendi, the only way past discrimination can be overcome is by foisting discrimination upon the guilty perpetrators....white people.
Ah, it must be wonderful to be so enlightened without the need for any hardcore evidence or for actual data to support these learned pronouncements.
@Patriot-#1776Constitution2mos2MO
If you're angry about it, maybe stop voting for the Democrat Party that supports such racist programs and implemented them, and demand reform by voting GOP, which supports a merit and virtue-based hiring system. That's one solution.
@9CJ6CB62mos2MO
Yikes, THIS is my problem with progressive policy, it goes too far in the wrong circumstances sometimes.
@ISIDEWITH2mos2MO
Is it right for an employee to be dismissed for criticizing workplace policies, even if it doesn't directly mention their employer?
@Patriot-#1776Constitution2mos2MO
No, not unless they're vocally calling for a Holocaust or Gulags or something
@9CJ6CB62mos2MO
Agreed, I’m fine with someone protesting a policy (that one in the article went WAY over what the average progressive would ask for), I just don’t want them to get violent or repeatedly make obviously disprovable lies with a high likelihood of danger.
@Patriot-#1776Constitution2mos2MO
Obviously disprovable lies with a high likelihood of danger must still be allowed.
@9CJ6CB62mos2MO
Depends the context, speech, and platform for me to be honest.
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