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Decolonizing the Drugstore
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“This feels like indoctrination.”
By Madeleine Rowley
06.17.24 — U.S. Politics
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Mandatory ideological training has now come to the drugstore. In California, pharmacists and pharmacy technicians, in order to keep their license, must study the latest in gender identity, colonialism, and white privilege. Such “cultural competency” courses are required by a state law that went into effect this year.

When the bill was introduced, Democra…

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Madeleine Rowley
Madeleine Rowley is a former investigative reporter at The Free Press. She is a 2023-2024 Manhattan Institute Logos Fellow with previous bylines in The Free Press, City Journal, and Public. As a U.S. Army spouse for almost a decade, she's lived in six states and spent two years in Jerusalem, Israel. She currently resides on the East Coast with her husband and daughter.
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