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[–] [email protected] 100 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Blacks often report higher pain intensity

plus

Black people don't feel pain

makes for a horrifying revelation of the depth of the impunity they feel when they enact violence and indifference on black bodies

I knew it was bad, but jfc

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago

Black people don't feel pain

makes for a horrifying revelation of the depth of the impunity they feel when they enact violence and indifference on black bodies

That particular falsehood has roots in America's history of slavery. From the same racist doctor who decided that slaves fleeing captivity had "drapetomania":

Dr. Samuel Cartright, for instance, wrote that blacks bore a “[racist slur] disease [making them] insensible to pain when subjected to punishment”

source: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1516047113

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I forgot how the phrase goes ":cruelty: is the ~~intent~~ point" or something. That speaks so loud right now. Thanks for the link.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago

Help! I operated on a bunch of black people with no anesthesia to write all these textbooks and now our med students are racist against black people!