The Massachusetts Department of Public Health is a private, non-profit, statewide membership organization that “promotes health in Massachusetts through advocacy, education, community organizing and coalition building.” They’ve been frequently cited by Charlie Baker and other politicians when deciding when to reopen or close businesses and schools. This is School Nursing Director Karen Robitaille, which acts under the umbrella of the MDPH.
She also serves on the East Longmeadow Board of Health, which issued a cease and desist to a family owned mini-golf and driving range in May.
Well, Karen recently wrote a blog speaking as the leader of the school health unit update team, and it basically sums up why you must never, ever listen to any of these people:
Perfectionism. I’ve got it. In fact, I have struggled with this my entire life. I’m a Capricorn, an INFJ (Meyers-Briggs personality profile), and the daughter of two parents with perfectionism, so maybe it’s in my DNA. At times it has served me very well, but more often than not I can see that it harms me, as well as those about me. Consider the definition from Oxford (and while you’re at it, note the marked increase of the term in the last twenty years or so):
I bring this up for two reasons. First, I feel like many nurses also struggle with perfectionism. It’s a piece of what can be a very damaging culture in the quest to become a nurse. Sometimes it makes sense; after all, in our profession, lives are at stake. Mistakes can have terrible consequences. But perfectionism also stifles creativity and learning, focuses on the negative, and makes what could be seen as an opportunity for growth into a personal failing.
Which brings me to the second reason for writing about this. Recently I came to understand that perfectionism is also a characteristic of white supremacist culture, which shocked me right to my core. In my personal endeavors to learn more about how to be an anti-racist, I’m determined not to look away when a concept does this to me. I encourage you not to look away either. Perfectionism does far more damage than I ever realized, but I have also learned that there are antidotes. My favorite is creating a culture, “where it is expected that everyone will make mistakes and those mistakes offer opportunities for learning” (https://collectiveliberation.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/White_Supremacy_Culture_Okun.pdf). I think this is probably super important for us to try to practice at this point in our history. I’m going to try harder (but not perfectly!) to let go of this damaging behavior. Care to join me?
With great respect,
Karen
She cares. She read AND donated money.
Please clap.
Being a perfectionist is “white supremacist culture.” This is the woman who gets to decide when your crotch fruits return to school. As a Board of Health member she gets to decide when your business is allowed to open. This person thinks that doing your job and doing it well makes you a white supremacist, likely because she is a racist white woman who believes that black and brown people are incapable of pursuing perfection at whatever they try to do. Anyone this dumb must never, ever be allowed around the levers of power, and we must stop taking them seriously.
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72 Comment(s)
If “perfectionism” is a characteristic of “white supremacist culture”, according to the SJWs, does that imply that carelessness, negligence, irresponsibility, inattention, sloppiness, rashness, ineptitude, ignorance, inaccuracy, etc., (google “the opposite of perfectionism”) are characteristic of black culture? If that’s the case, then it explains a lot. Just sayin’…
The DPH is a state agency under the Executive Office. It is not a private non profit.
Perfection is unattainable. People aim at the goals of good, very good and excellent, and do learn and evolve. This school person is more global warming equipped with nonsensical abstract/unscientific babble theory for the weak of mind who believe it.
So… not being a deadbeat piece of shit is white supremacy? Okay. She’s pretty much stating that anyone with any amount of melanin is a helpless, lazy, ungrateful fuck-wit. Why is she still allowed to talk?
All these people got a whiff of power and they love it! This plandemic has given the wrong people big power, the establishment knows exactly what they’re doing by giving these clowns power, they will do anything to keep it and stay relevant in the world. But in the end it’s meaningless and they will be ultimately judged for their actions
Dumb polish kikes give whites a bad name.
Once again TB has shown us the most racist people on the planet are middle aged,affluent,overweight,white women.Stop trying so hard white people you are making the black people look bad,how could you write something like that and realize how racist it is.
correction,and NOT realize how racist it is
I thought you were talking about me until I got to the word “women “.
The lady doesn’t think black people strive to perfection. Just white people. All I need to know about her.
You ain’t perfect if you ain’t black ! C’mon man get on yo knees and beg forgiveness! You was born white and should have been aborted! Addition by subtraction!
Well jumpin shit would you look at that, another white guilted clown lecturing on white supremacy and OF COURSE she’s another overweight health care worker rolling in her demands on us.
She fucks apes
No white man would touch het
uncooked (untouched) pink vagina
vagina pinc neo-bruich (scots gaelic)
She looks like Arnold Schwarzenegger when he dressed up like a lady to get into mars in total recall.
Well Sir, I must say she has the most perfect pearly whites this ol” hombre” ever “came” across.
Nobody who works in Public Health in Mass needs to worry about perfectionism. We are the third worst state in the country for deaths per 100K and have the most silly lockdowns.
1) 65% of those who died, and increasing, have died in nursing homes. ZERO have been closed.
2) Pot shops, Tinder, looting, and protesting less than 3 feet apart is OK.
3) Univ students can go protest loot and burn in Boston, but if they go to a party with 10 people, they are suspended.
4) Churches are closed,
5) Need a covid test to come from areas with ZERO covid deaths, but can come from the worst place on the planet New York City without a test.
Xavier onasis
Slow clap
As a weed card holder I can attest medical shops are pretty pretty safe.
I suffer from perfectionism as well. I seldom make a mistake. In fact I can not remember the last time I was wrong about anything.
If her target was perfectionism, she took a hard left on final approach.
And if it no longer matters to her, why the photo manipulation to make herself look better (btw big fail)?
Between her and Jimmy Neutron in charge we are screwed.
While everyone is entitled to their own personal viewpoints, she should be fired for using her position to promote something as ridiculous as this.
Now, those of us who strive for perfection are now racists because certain cultures do not strive for perfection.
By the way, a golf course is one of the safest places to be. We all need to be outside getting fresh air and exercise.
Kinda would.
Neither proud nor ashamed.
According to this dizzy broad, Surgeons and Pilots should just say, “F—k it, so what if I screw up?”
“I’m an INFJ.”
No, you’re a C-U-N-T. Get over yourself. And yeah, textbook fucking Karen to boot.
I just jerked off to all this spoon faced bitches facebook pics, now im sitting at work with jizz stain marks all over my pants.
These are the type that make their own Prozac out of Kahluwa & Stawberry ice cream!……………
What a stupid, white guilt, cunt! As if black people can’t be perfectionists?
This idiot must have a side job with the Boston Celtics, teaching the players that the idea is to throw the ball near the basket — not in the basket.
I’d hit that.
Care to join me…in being a fucking Dumbass?
It is not our fault that God … and perhaps after a few crown royals and eight or so Budweiser’s yes I’d throw her a shot .. I don’t have to subscribe to their politics to treat them like the pigs they are . Ten to one she loves it in the …
Make Joseph Goebbels proud.
Indoctrinated with propaganda and without unintelligent means she kneels.
Ingesting memes fighting inherent hate while being whirl-pooled into an idealogical propaganda spinning with fallacy and disinformation.
One has to wonder how poor get slaughtered and enablers get elected and falsely propped up?
Look no further.
Constructive concepts that are shorthand for cultural values.
Reap what you sow.
Cunts
Imagine getting a whiff of this beached whales cunt on a summers day?
Just like the Chelsea creek at low tide
MDPH is a government agency. It is NOT a non-profit organization. LOL
How many hits of acid does it take to think DPH is a private not for profit. Dude they can shut down hospitals and nursing homes. WTF?!
I rest my case.
Give these phonies a little bit of fake power and they get drunk from it, they lust for more
I thought perfectionists weren’t, ah, overweight?
Self-righteous is the correct adjective she was looking for. Own it, Capricious cheese lady.
She would be the first person to complain if her steak wasn’t cooked perfectly. Imagine if the cook was black.
Good point about the steak.
She’s probably more of a loaded chili nachos appetizer, side salad with a caramel waffle sunday for her entree’ paired with sweet wine and followed by a double fudge cake and sausage grilled cheese for desert.
I believe I was behind her in line at the Cabot St. Beverly Dunkin Donuts in ’95 when she ordered “a low-fat blueberry muffin with extra butter.”
I’m a Tradesman and if my work isn’t perfect then i don’t get paid. If that makes me a White Supremacist then Fuck you
My dear God is it ever going to end… you, fat, fat, tone-deaf, self-important, delusional, mete shell of what a real woman is.
You’re a fucking caricature.
Of what … I do not know.
Go away, fatty.
She’s a caricature of mediocrity that someone tried to draw from memory but couldn’t get the face right.
Her pic where she’s made up and leaning forward looks like she’s about to give a blowjob. It was probably taken by the guy who’s cock she was already holding and moments from gulping.
Welcome to Joe Bidens America where crackheads like hunter are given millions to invest.
I’m a crackhead, where’s my millions?
And while I am waiting for my millions, got any crack?
You aint black
If perfectionism is white supremacy, all these wealthy leftists and liberals need to trade in their Acuras, reliable cars are racist cars. Intermittent cell service, contaminated food and medicine, 50% accuracy on their bank statements and pay checks should be welcomed and very non white.
The DPH was no where to be found when New England Compounding Center ran its game and murdered 80 patients and sickened over 800 others.
Where was the perfection with that?
Come on, it’s just an anecdote.
What a nut job. People who need to refer to their astrological sign and their Myers-Briggs personality type are automatically discredited as dummies as far as I’m concerned. Now perfectionism is white supremacist culture??!!!! Some people are just so completely warped.
Zodiac girls be like: “Hi I’m an Asparagus and CapriSun is in retrograde so… I just can’t help being a dull and uninteresting douche-donkey.”
The Red Sox apparently had that letter posted in the locker room all season
This is what Trump has created.
Nahh Bitch dont blame trump for this. actually dont blame him for anything because Trump has not caused anything. Thats an easy scapegoat but you’re all adults so stop blaming other adults for your nasty, shitty, down right idiotic, despicable behavior. You and the rest of the lemmings have always been like this. How pathetically sad you people are to blame someone else for your shitty adult behavior. If you blame another adult for your shit adult behavior than you should be locked in a white room in a white jacket. You learn by the 7th grade you’re responsible for your actions and your behaviors alone. Stop blaming another adult for you and your people being such shit bags!
A perfect asshole
If she is a perfectionist then why is her cholesterol level through the roof?
Funny how working in the medical field seems to perpetuate that condition. Why DO so many nurses end up fat?
And we’re expected to take nutrition/weight advise from these people???
Im sorry, for something I didnt do
Lynched somebody, but I dont know who
You blame me for slavery,
a hundred years before i was born
Guilty of being white
Guilty of being white
Guilty of being white
Guilty of being RIGHT
So its racist to be perfect? Is this because blacks are so dumb? Lazy? Tribal?
Isnt it coherently racist to act dumber than we actually are just to make people feel better about themselves?
Isnt it coherently racisist to assume that blacks do not strive for perfection?
Get the fuck outta here you stupid stupid cunt
That’s no perfectionist! That’s my wife! No, my sister!
C’mon man!
A fat hideous looking bitch
But I’ll bet she gives a good rim job
…when I drop my kids off at the pool!
The more I hear about White Supremacy, the more I believe there is something Supreme about being white.
The faces of untreated mentall illness( box wine is not treatment ladies).
Failure is not an option for white people that is why they try to be a perfectionists. We don’t have affirmative action to achieve success in the workplace
Really, it is like we have created parallel universes with different rules. In one universe, the bar is set very high, in the other, it is set to one’s comfort level. If I break my hip, I pray to get the surgeon and the anesthesiologist from the universe of the high bars. Same thing applies to the pilot of my airplane and the engineers for the bridges.
She certainly isn’t a perfectionist when it comes to writing, I’ll tell you whut.
ShShShaw!!