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Topic: Editor of journal "Neurology" resigns over racist characterizations
Anonymous A started this discussion 7 years ago#84,565
The article, "Lucky and the Root Doctor," reported on "Reggie, a 60-year-old black man referred because of muscle weakness and suspected inflammatory myopathy." It described Reggie's wife as "a roly-poly woman" whose "abundant rolls of fat jiggled as she giggled."
The piece, originally published online February 12, went on: "I once shared a table at a fried chicken fast food establishment with a nice African American lady. Immensely enjoying her fries, she sat with the shaker in one chubby fist and liberally salted each individual fry."
Yesterday, in a retraction notice, the journal said that the article "should not have been published. We sincerely apologize for our error.
"This story, a recollection by a doctor of a former patient, contains racist characterizations," the notice continued. "This has prompted a re-evaluation of our peer review process for humanities articles, and we are re-doubling our efforts to make sure such material is never published again."
Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 7 years ago, 28 minutes later[^][v]#971,386
haha damn what an a rod
Sheila LaBoof joined in and replied with this 7 years ago, 11 minutes later, 40 minutes after the original post[^][v]#971,390
Now this is amusing. The article writer was merely doing the normal bullshit writing style that layman magazine article writers or extended radio pieces typically use, wherein the scene and the characters are described, or in my mind overdescribed, for adding human interest to the science. I fuckin hate that kind of writing. The writer here simply described what he saw, but in this case the reality of what he saw bit him in the ass because it seems that he lacked an internal alarm system for detecting the intersection of black people and fried chicken in his writing. Talking about black people and fried chicken at the same time should only be attempted by the bravest and most skilled of writers.
Meta !Sober//iZs joined in and replied with this 7 years ago, 2 minutes later, 43 minutes after the original post[^][v]#971,391
Okay but what's racist about a fat woman putting too much salt on her fries???
Anonymous B replied with this 7 years ago, 1 second later, 43 minutes after the original post[^][v]#971,392
@971,390 (Sheila LaBoof)
I bet he had a really hard time not being overtly racist while describing the one black woman he's eaten with eating fast food
Anonymous B double-posted this 7 years ago, 40 seconds later, 43 minutes after the original post[^][v]#971,393
@971,391 (Meta !Sober//iZs)
why'd he have to call some dudes wife a roly poly woman???
Meta !Sober//iZs replied with this 7 years ago, 2 minutes later, 46 minutes after the original post[^][v]#971,395
@previous (B)
It sucks but it's true. I've been called roly poly before. All people of adipose have.
Sheila LaBoof replied with this 7 years ago, 1 minute later, 47 minutes after the original post[^][v]#971,396
@971,391 (Meta !Sober//iZs)
There's nothing racist there. It's just that people have to walk on eggshells when they write these days, if you know what I mean. Anything that can come off as putting a racist image in someone's mind (like a fat black mammy character), whether it was intended or not, gets special attention.
Sheila LaBoof double-posted this 7 years ago, 1 minute later, 49 minutes after the original post[^][v]#971,397
This Doctor does No a lot about Electronics. Electrodiagnostic is NOT even a word in my sperl checker -
OP dank ya for topic which was good for a laff
Review of his book was not so much so good.
One wood hope he said something to that woman - My experience with fried chicken - To much Salt to start with - Adding Salt - That black lady by now has stroked out or is dead.