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The People Who Tell You to ‘Trust the Science’ Were Running Race-Based Scholarship Schemes Until Someone Filed a Complaint

The American Medical Association — the same organization that spent the last five years lecturing us about equity, inclusion, and the moral superiority of credentialed experts — just got caught running scholarship programs that handed out medical school money based on skin color. And when someone filed an IRS complaint pointing out that this is, you know, *illegal discrimination*, the AMA didn’t fight back. They didn’t issue a defiant press release. They didn’t call a press conference to defend their principles. They quietly scrubbed the programs from their website like a teenager deleting browser history before Mom gets home.

That’s the confidence of people who know they’re right, folks. Nothing says “we stand behind our mission” like silently destroying the evidence at the first whiff of legal accountability.

Let’s back up. The College Fix broke the story that the AMA had been operating scholarship programs that explicitly factored in race when deciding who gets financial support for medical school. We’re not talking about scholarships for students from low-income backgrounds, or first-generation college students, or people from rural areas with doctor shortages. We’re talking about programs where the color of your skin was part of the qualifying criteria for getting a check.

Now, you’d think the AMA — an organization that represents doctors, people who are supposed to understand biology — would know better than to sort humans into categories based on melanin content. But this is the same AMA that declared racism a “public health threat” in 2020 and then apparently decided the cure was… more racism. Just the good kind. The kind where *they* get to pick the winners.

The complaint was filed with the IRS, which oversees the tax-exempt status of organizations like the AMA. The argument was straightforward: you can’t operate discriminatory programs and keep your tax-exempt status. That’s not a novel legal theory. That’s the law. And the AMA’s legal team apparently took one look at the complaint, did the math on what it would cost to defend race-based preferences in the current legal environment, and decided that discretion was the better part of valor.

Smart move, cowards.

Because here’s the thing — they *can’t* defend these programs anymore. Not after the Supreme Court’s ruling on affirmative action. Not after case after case has established that you don’t get to discriminate just because you feel really good about your reasons for discriminating. The legal landscape has shifted, and the AMA knows it. They didn’t scrub those programs because they had a change of heart. They scrubbed them because they did a cost-benefit analysis and realized that the jig is up.

This is what the collapse of DEI looks like in real time. It’s not a dramatic courtroom showdown. It’s not a congressional hearing with gavels banging. It’s a bureaucrat in a corner office hitting the delete key and hoping nobody notices. It’s an organization that spent years virtue-signaling about racial justice quietly abandoning those programs the second someone with a stamp and an envelope decided to hold them accountable.

And we should talk about what these programs actually *did*. Medical school is brutally competitive. Every scholarship slot that gets allocated based on race is a slot that doesn’t go to someone who might have earned it on merit. We’re talking about the people who will eventually be performing your surgery, diagnosing your kids, and prescribing your medication. Call me old-fashioned, but I’d like the person holding the scalpel to have gotten there because they were the best candidate, not because they checked the right box on a demographic form.

The AMA will never admit this, of course. They’ll memory-hole the whole thing and pivot to their next initiative about health equity or systemic barriers or whatever buzzword is polling well this quarter. But we saw it. The internet saw it. And the beautiful thing about the internet is that it never forgets, even when the AMA desperately wishes it would.

This is another domino falling. Corporate America ditching DEI programs. Universities scrambling to comply with the Supreme Court ruling. And now the AMA — the gold standard of medical establishment credibility — folding like a lawn chair at a picnic when someone actually challenged their race-based giveaways.

They didn’t fight because they couldn’t fight. They couldn’t fight because they were wrong. And they were wrong because treating people differently based on race is wrong, no matter how many acronyms you slap on the program.

Welcome to accountability. It’s new around here, but we’re hoping it stays.

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