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Brian Schatz: “Yeah, yeah. This is the crazy thing. By the way, different, I am an Ashkenazi Jew, right, I do actually have--there is a…”

On the recordFebruary 5, 2025
Yeah, yeah. This is the crazy thing. By the way, different, I am an Ashkenazi Jew, right, I do actually have--there is a thing called--I think it is called Tay-Sachs or something that I have a proclivity to having it, so we have to have a special check. And the reason we know that is we actually do the kind of medical research to know how people of different ethnic extractions and different sexes will respond to medicine and what they may need. African Americans need certain things that Jewish Americans don't need. And this isn't some woke DEI thing; it is like a biological fact. But now because these guys are, I mean, childish, right? They are not just saying: Hey, we should have a colorblind workplace; they are saying: You can't say sex--the word ``sex''--in medical research.
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Brian Schatz
Democratic · Hawaii
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Feb 5, 2025

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