Bryan Charles S
Department of Internal Medicine (Emeritus), University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Columbia, South Carolina.
Proc (Bayl Univ Med Cent). 2020 Nov 9;34(1):194-198. doi: 10.1080/08998280.2020.1843380.
A recent critic levels two new charges against Sir William Osler: (1) that in 1912 he was a vice president of the First International Eugenics Congress; and (2) that in 1914 he asserted Canada should remain a "a white man's country." Osler was indeed among the 31 vice presidents of the First International Eugenics Congress, but he did nothing further in this area. Osler indeed asserted that Canada should remain a "white man's country," but his context was the incident during which most Canadians felt the same way about 376 passengers from the Punjab Province of British India who sought to defy Canadian immigration law. There is little or no indication of racism elsewhere in Osler's deeds and writings, and the idea that race is largely a social construct emerged only after his death. Advocates for racial equality should view Osler not as an adversary but rather as an ally in today's battles for global justice and also for human survival.
最近，一位批评者对威廉·奥斯勒爵士提出了两项新指控：（1）1912年他担任第一届国际优生学大会副主席；（2）1914年他宣称加拿大应保持为“白人的国家”。奥斯勒确实是第一届国际优生学大会的31位副主席之一，但他在这方面并未有进一步行动。奥斯勒确实宣称加拿大应保持为“白人的国家”，但其背景是当时大多数加拿大人对来自英属印度旁遮普省的376名试图违抗加拿大移民法的乘客也有同样看法的事件。在奥斯勒的行为和著作中，几乎没有或根本没有种族主义的迹象，而种族在很大程度上是一种社会建构的观点是在他去世后才出现的。种族平等的倡导者不应将奥斯勒视为对手，而应将其视为当今全球正义和人类生存斗争中的盟友。
