Dispensing Marxism at the Pharmacy Counter
In the March-April 2024 Journal of the American Pharmacists Association, there is an article that may drastically affect the practice of pharmacy in the United States. It is, unfortunately, not an article that describes a new life-saving drug that pharmacists can counsel their patients to use correctly, but rather it is about “Exploring LGBTQ+ cultural competency and DEI in continuing education: A cross-sectional review of U.S. pharmacy legislation.”
The article by Ko, et al. approvingly writes about California Assembly Bill 2194 that requires an hour of continuing education in so-called cultural competency for pharmacists (approximately 32,000) and pharmacy technicians (approximately 37,000) to renew their licenses: “Requiring LGBTQ+ cultural competency training will help pharmacists uphold the Oath of a Pharmacist to promote inclusion, embrace diversity, and advocate for justice to advance health equity and to assure optimal outcomes for all patients.” The Oath of Pharmacist was updated and adopted in November 2021 by the American Academy of Colleges of Pharmacy and the American Pharmacist Association to reflect the “commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and anti-racism.” In particular, the Oath now includes the following vow, “I will promote inclusion, embrace diversity, and advocate for diversity to advance health equity”. In other words, these two organizations bowed before the asherah of BLM and included this vow.
Critical Cultural Revolution Theory
Before proceeding to the particulars of AB 2194, which is being challenged in court, let’s define what is meant by diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging, anti-racist, etc. In its essentials, DEI, or Critical Race Theory (CRT), is Frankfurt School Marxism: Critical Theory focused on race. DEI and related initializations are hard to keep track of, so we’ll use the term Critical Cultural Revolution Theory (CCRT). It is a critical theory that is focused not only on race, but has more generally replaced Marxists’ concerns with labor with culture (race, gender, immigration status, etc.) and includes its own versions of Marx’s Labor Theory of Value and Alienation. Further, its stated purpose is cultural upheaval and the tearing down of the biases inherent in the current societal structures.
For CCRT, instead of the capitalists exploiting the worker, the “privileged” exploit those who are “unprivileged.” The former enjoys “profits” at the expense of the latter by the very nature of their privilege. Since there is a privileged class, this causes alienation in the unprivileged where this disparity of privilege can only be solved by a society that is fully planned and controlled without competition. As such, these contemporary Marxists speak of diversity instead of e pluribus unum, equity instead of equality, inclusion instead of liberty, and as we’ll see, humiliation instead of humility. Thus, CCRT is a totalitarianism based on a hierarchy of race, sex, gender, etc., where some of these groups are more deserving of governmental protection and largess than others. The groups mentioned in AB 2194, which became law through the backing of the California Pharmacists Association and sponsored by Assemblyman Christopher Ward, are enshrined as an especially deserving group since a class of medical professionals are required to be indoctrinated on their behalf.
