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By Emily Dreyfuss & Emma Vlasits @ Science section @ Wired.com, March 6
Today, in his first speech to his staff at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, newly minted Secretary Ben Carson delivered an extemporaneous disquisition on the unparalleled marvel that is the human brain and memory. [....]
It was also a speech that described slaves brought to the US as “immigrants.” That’s problematic, but Carson is not an expert on slavery. He is, however, an expert on brain-type things; before entering politics Carson was a distinguished neurosurgeon.
So it’s strange how wrong his understanding of memory seems to be.
Here’s what Carson said:[....]
Comments
Ben Carson was a neurosurgeon. He should know better. Carson seems as mentally unhinged as his boss. The pyramids were not grain storage bins. An immigrant is a person who comes to live in another country permanently. A slave is a person under the control of another person. Immigration suggests the person is using free will. Slavery involves force. Words matter.Ben Carson is not in control of his thought process or his words.
Edit to add:
He tried to clean this up by stating that you can be an "involuntary immigrant". Sadly, this passes as deep racial insight on the Right.
http://www.mediaite.com/online/ben-carson-follows-up-on-slavery-remarks-...
If you are in jail, you are not a prisoner, you are an "involuntary guest of the state" as one respondent to the linked article points out.
by rmrd0000 on Tue, 03/07/2017 - 12:02pm
I guess we should all be grateful that he has been removed from practicing? And that he is so far gone that the civil servants under him are probably just basically gonna ignore as well as they can? And he will sort of be clueless about what they are really up to?
I guess I don't really agree with seems as mentally unhinged as his boss. It's like this: if Trump is like from Neptune, Carson is like from another solar system.
by artappraiser on Tue, 03/07/2017 - 2:08pm