We aren’t going to solve racism with cultural cleansing. It didn’t work for Stalin. It didn’t work for China during the cultural revolution. It didn’t work for McCarthy and the red scare.
Cultural cleansing? Please try to think this through. Racists aren’t a culture, and the NHS deciding that maybe racists shouldn’t be in a position to provide healthcare to people of colour is not ‘cleansing’.
Freedom of thought is important. It is so important, that I will defend the right of anyone to believe whatever horrific things they want. I would rather live in a world where people are allowed to believe and say hateful and things than a world where deviation from official dogma is not tolerated.
What you’re saying here is ‘I would rather black people faced racism in healthcare than a racist was made to experience the consequences of their racism.
Because there are consequences to racism. And if that racism goes unchallenged, the people who bear those consequences are the victims of racism, not the perpetrators.
Why should the price of free speech be the safety and well being of people of colour? How do you justify that?
‘Unless a person is mixing their personal beliefs and their employment, I don’t think it should matter. Everyone needs to work, even horrible people.’
Not everyone needs to work in an environment where they provide care for others.
We already know that racism affects the provision of healthcare. We know that black women are five times more likely to die in childbirth than white women. We know that Pakistani, black Caribbean and black African families have twice the rate of infant mortality as white people. We know that black men and women have lower life expectancy than men and women from white and other ethnic groups. Young black men are six times more likely than young white men to be sectioned for compulsory treatment under the Mental Health Act, and South Asian people are 50% more likely to die prematurely from coronary heart disease than the general population.
Racists don’t say ‘I’m not taking this woman’s concerns about her birth seriously because she’s Black’. They don’t say ‘let’s not refer this man for further tests because he’s not from here and he should go back to his own country’. Racism is usually insidious and under the radar until it bursts out in posts like the example OP has provided. But there is no way a person can be racist and still be trusted to provide fair and equal healthcare to people of colour. And it isn’t people of colour who should have to put their lives on the line to deal with the consequences of that racism, so you can defend your lofty goal of making sure racists don’t have to be accountable for their actions.