
🧵RACISM IN MEDICINE: This is disgusting! @KPMedSchool claims to be committed to diversity, equity & inclusion but SUSPENDS Dr. @ayshakhoury hours after being asked to teach med students about racial disparities in medicine wearing a "I can't breathe" t-shirt 1/10
@DrMarkSchuster

https://t.co/hO3RNmgH4v

At the town hall, medical students presented a petition signed by more than 91% of students demanding Khoury's reinstatement 6/10
https://t.co/8Y3oihmTCw

https://t.co/ADj1K8JeLM

@DrMarkSchuster is telling @KPMedSchool that he\u2019s apologized to me. I did not share the apology because nothing has fundamentally changed since my notice. The difference in the letters is that the new language employs empathy. pic.twitter.com/1V1xwMZhxS
— Aysha H Khoury MD MPH FACP (I-sha Koo-ree) (@ayshakhoury) January 14, 2021
WE will NOT BE SILENT, while @MichaelKanterMD, @DrMarkSchuster, @KPMedSchool, and @aboutKP DESTROY the career of @ayshakhoury! Reappoint her to faculty!!
Reappoint @ayshakhoury to FACULTY so she can continue to teach medical students! /end
https://t.co/hzHhw5sobn
I humbly ask that you, my fellow applicants, contact @KPMedSchool and request answers regarding its treatment of Dr. @ayshakhoury. Too often, we see Black women\u2014patients, faculty, AND healthcare workers\u2014treated unjustly within medicine. We can\u2019t keep allowing this to happen. pic.twitter.com/o7fVsGIjaz
— Isaiah Swann (@swanncell) January 9, 2021
Dr. Aysha Khoury was suspended from her faculty position at @KPMedSchool after hosting frank conversations about racism in medicine. https://t.co/w4ppsqCNmQ
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These are some of the hashtags being used to identify rioters. #SeditionHunters

#StripesGuy
#StripesGuy assaulted Officer Daniel Hodges. Hodges says, he was \u201cpractically foaming at the mouth.\u201d He ripped his mask off, took his baton, beat officer Hodges with it and bloodied his face. @DCPoliceDept @FBIWFO #SeditionVids https://t.co/fZMBpwlyzs pic.twitter.com/cCJbaJTvE9
— Cleavon MD (@Cleavon_MD) January 16, 2021
#ThePinMan
#ThePinMan assaulted and used a clear police shield to pin @DCPoliceDept Officer Daniel Hodges in a door jam. If you know this person call the FBI\u2019s Tipline at 1-800-CALL-FBI (1-800-225-5324) @FBIWFO #SeditionVids pic.twitter.com/1vOyG3LWWx
— Cleavon MD (@Cleavon_MD) January 16, 2021
#EyeGouger
#EyeGouger is wanted for assaulting a police officer and trying to gouge out his eye. If you know this person call the FBI\u2019s Tipline at 1-800-CALL-FBI (1-800-225-5324) @DCPoliceDept @FBIWFO #SeditionVids pic.twitter.com/cwnADdlaqn
— Cleavon MD (@Cleavon_MD) January 16, 2021
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As a dean of a major academic institution, I could not have said this. But I will now. Requiring such statements in applications for appointments and promotions is an affront to academic freedom, and diminishes the true value of diversity, equity of inclusion by trivializing it. https://t.co/NfcI5VLODi
— Jeffrey Flier (@jflier) November 10, 2018
We know that elite institutions like the one Flier was in (partial) charge of rely on irrelevant status markers like private school education, whiteness, legacy, and ability to charm an old white guy at an interview.
Harvard's discriminatory policies are becoming increasingly well known, across the political spectrum (see, e.g., the recent lawsuit on discrimination against East Asian applications.)
It's refreshing to hear a senior administrator admits to personally opposing policies that attempt to remedy these basic flaws. These are flaws that harm his institution's ability to do cutting-edge research and to serve the public.
Harvard is being eclipsed by institutions that have different ideas about how to run a 21st Century institution. Stanford, for one; the UC system; the "public Ivys".