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The latest health official to show that she knows or cares nothing about health but only about keeping up with the Left’s various enforced delusions is Dr. Michelle Morse, the chief medical officer and deputy commissioner for the Center for Health Equity and Community Wellness for the New York City Department of Health. Morse has encountered controversy after referring to white mothers as “birthing people” but to black and Hispanic mothers as just that: “mothers.” But it wouldn’t be 2022 if Morse had corrected herself, or been corrected, in a sane, fact-based manner. No, by the time it was all over, Morse looked as if she was the voice of reason.
Morse tweeted on March 23, “The urgency of this moment is clear. Mortality rates of birthing people are too high, and babies born to Black and Puerto Rican mothers in this city are three times more likely to die in their first year of life than babies born to non-Hispanic White birthing people.”
Why she made the distinction between white “birthing people” and black and Puerto Rican “mothers” remains unexplained. Was it just a slip-up, an honest mistake from someone anxious to be politically correct but tweeting while tired? Was Morse in a hurry, or simply overwhelmed with having constantly to navigate the minefield of what is currently acceptable to say and what is not? Was she implying that blacks and Puerto Ricans are less accepting of trendy gender nonsense than whites? Another possibility, given the prevailing anti-white racism of our age, is that Morse did not think white women are worthy of the appellation “mother.”
That last possibility was unlikely, given that in follow-up tweets, Morse referred to “the birthing person or their child.” And in another, she wrote, “We need to support birthing people through all aspects of their birthing experience – perhaps the most beautiful and personal gift we can share with birthing people as they navigate the groundbreaking life changing experience of creating life. That is what doulas do.”
So “birthing people” it is, and expecting sanity from the New York City Health Department was quixotic at best. The department quickly issued a semi-apology for Morse’s tweet (although it is still up as of this writing, two weeks later). But instead of trying to bring the discourse at least within hailing distance of reality by affirming that white women with children were mothers, as were black and Hispanic women, the department went full-crazy. Morse’s tweet, it explained, was an “oversight,” and thus had no deeper significance. Nonetheless, “we apologize for inadvertently gendering Black and Puerto Rican birthing people.”
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Infidel says
In the meantime, even Dems are starting to avoid using the term ‘LatinX’ to describe Latinos and Latinas, since their attempts to ‘include’ Hispanic and Portuguics (is that the term for global people of Portuguese descent/culture?) members of the other 60+ genders seems to be scoffed at by all those straight cisgendered bigots ?
gravenimage says
True, Infidel–even most Hispanics reject the term “LatinX”.
“About One-in-Four U.S. Hispanics Have Heard of Latinx, but Just 3% Use It”
https://www.pewresearch.org/hispanic/2020/08/11/about-one-in-four-u-s-hispanics-have-heard-of-latinx-but-just-3-use-it/
“LatinX” is mostly used to avoid the supposed sexism of “Latino” (“Latina” is usually only used when refering to a specific woman; “Latino” as a group whether male or female).
But the idiocy here is that no new term was needed, because the widely accepted term “Hispanic” is gender neutral.
The pushers of “LatinX” clearly don’t want a term that is just neutral–they want to virtue signal their rejection of gender.
Infidel says
Hispanic though would only cover people from Spanish-speaking Americas: Brazil would be left out of this. Of course, I have no idea of what percentage of Latinos and Latinas are from Brazil
gravenimage says
This is technically true, Infidel–but I have heard people, including various officials, include Brazilians as Hispanic.
There are certainly some Brazilians in the US–there are people here from all nations. But they don’t make up a significant population of migrants here.
mortimer says
It’s a Leftist attack on the traditional family and an attack on the traditional Judeo-Christian heritage of the United States. Anything ‘traditional’ is to be destroyed and eventually will be. Only transitory Marxist ‘narratives’ will be allowed, because they are easily modified or swept away by the latest Party Decree.
The young must be brainwashed for instant compliance with whatever irrational ‘narrative’ is imposed by the Vanguard of the Proletariat … the Traitor Class..
mortimer says
The reference to ‘black mothers’ is possibly an unconscious reference to the fact that black unwed mothers are 72% versus 28% who are black married mothers. Having only one parent is one the greatest disadvantages to black people in the US.
The Left encourages this situation because it leads to the rootless ‘lost-soul’ qualities they want to create in the population … qualities that make people easier to manipulate.
The Dems want to maintain their paternalistic control over black voters by discouraging them to look to the Dem Party as their ‘father’ … I mean ‘commissar-parent’.
mortimer says
correction: by ENCOURAGING them to look to the Dem Party as their ‘father’
somehistory says
The whole world is “lying in the power of the wicked one.” That is the root source, the root cause, of all of the efforts put forth to make people hate and kill each other.
Jesus said, “Every man’s hand will be against his brother.” ‘Brother against brother.”
Blacks with political position, including position in the media and entertainment industry, positions such as this woman, the soon-to-be-**justice***, and the ny attorney threatening Mr. Emerson, all have one thing is common…race; and the idea that now they are in control of things and can turn on Whites…even little kids in the schools. some Whites, those without morals, are using this to further their own evil course to have complete control.
It’s all going to come down on their heads, because discrimination, hatred, racism, etc. are evil no matter the color of skin that holds the wrongs and dishes out trouble for others.
CogitoErgoSum says
Using the term “birthing person” is cold and without emotion. It’s on the level of saying a dog (or bitch) whelped some puppies. The word “mother” is warm and evokes feelings of love. The person who uses “birthing person” for some but not others is making distinctions in her mind about the humanity of certain groups of people. She obviously sees white people as less than fully human. I would call her a racist.
somehistory says
I would too. In fact, I do call her a racist.
Rarely says
Who knows what she believes other than that she doesn’t like white people very much. Clearly racist when trying to attach a trait to an identifiable group.
I suspect that she is simply trying to stir the pot and start some controversy. Her choice of phrases was no accident female dog that she is.
She’s in the wrong job.
Infidel says
Yeah, like the others above, I too consider her a racist. Only thing I wonder – whether it (won’t presume Dr Morse as a ‘she’ since I’m not a biologist and haven’t read its preferred pronouns on its Facebook page) would have dared to refer to Black and Hispanic women w/ kids as birthing people of color?
tim gallagher says
So sick of this bullshit. The blatant anti-white racism by some blacks these days is loathsome. Also this “birthing people” bullshit. The other day on Sky News here in Australia, maybe on the “Outsiders” program, they mentioned some piece of PC crap about “pregnant people” and, as Rita Panahi said, this is really anti-women, misogynistic garbage, the correct term should be “pregnant women”. To my mind, this nonsense these days is insanity. I get that it is all about the loopy left and the trans mob trying to undermine normal family life, but you would have to be as dumb as a piece of timber to buy this nonsense about “pregnant people” or “birthing people”. Women are going to have fight back against this trans lobby crap. It is pure insanity. I keep wondering how the freakishly tiny number of trans type people in the population have attained such power. It makes no sense. If they want to go and change their sex, fine, do it, but shut up and leave the average, normal people in society alone to live their normal lives..
Sheila says
STOP THE INSANITY!!
gravenimage says
NYC Health Official Calls White Women ‘Birthing People,’ Black and Hispanic Women ‘Mothers’ — Then It Gets Crazy
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Yep–this just wasn’t *crazy enough*:
But instead of trying to bring the discourse at least within hailing distance of reality by affirming that white women with children were mothers, as were black and Hispanic women, the department went full-crazy. Morse’s tweet, it explained, was an “oversight,” and thus had no deeper significance. Nonetheless, “we apologize for inadvertently gendering Black and Puerto Rican birthing people.”
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Right–how can you “gender” “birthing people”? After all, everyone knows that gender has *nothing* to do with giving birth… OK, this is too stupid to even pretend.