Toronto Metropolitan University, formerly known as Ryerson University, is launching what may be the world’s first DEI med school where prospective students will be chosen not on merit, but rather on the colour of the skin or ancestry. Of the available 94 seats in the program, 75% of students will be chosen from “equity-seeking” admissions streams which favour black, indigenous and other minorities. The remaining 25% of students will be chosen through the general admissions stream.
Racial discrimination is always wrong and racial quotas are a terrible idea, but when it comes to teaching the next generation of doctors, could there possibly be anything more insane than this?
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