Lemon pushes back on DEI standards at Duke Medical School
I think this one requires some added context. The “evidence” Musk is citing for Duke Medical School lowering its standards in the name of DEI is a thread on X from Ben Shapiro. He posts videos from Duke Medical School where an administrator says Duke is “transitioning to a completely holistic review process” and “abandoning all sorts of metrics and screens.” Shapiro takes this to mean Duke is lowering standards and is just admitting medical school students based on DEI initiatives.
Musk responded to these claims saying, “people will die because of this.”
Duke Medical School is a predominantly white institution that has had no meaningful changes in its percentage of Black faculty members in recent years. From 2019 to 2023, Duke had no increase or decrease in its proportion of Black staffers. It’s remained steady at 15%. In the same time period, Duke Medical School’s percentage of Black students increased from 11% to 13%. White people are still the school’s largest demographic.
