DEI Will Soon Be Killing You. Literally

What else can you say when doctors-in-training are being given bad information in the name of Social Justice? ‘Pedagogical Malpractice’: Inside UCLA Medical School’s Mandatory ‘Health Equity’ Class

"Follow the Science!" Except when we don't like the science, of course.

Students in their first year of medical school typically learn what a healthy body looks like and how to keep it that way. At the University of California, Los Angeles, they learn that "fatphobia is medicine’s status quo" and that weight loss is a "hopeless endeavor."

Those are two of the more moderate claims made by Marquisele Mercedes, a self-described "fat liberationist," in an essay assigned to all first-year students in UCLA medical school’s mandatory "Structural Racism and Health Equity" class. Launched in the wake of George Floyd’s death, the course is required for all first-year medical students.

Because God forbid that we let science and facts interfere with Social Justice, or something.

I found this by way of The Blaze, and Twitter. DEI class at UCLA's medical school sets up future doctors to fight the patriarchy and accept 'weight loss is useless'

That article had a nice breakdown of the stuff in the class.

• how Western societies and the medical profession are supposedly racist;
• how morbid obesity "came to be pathologized and medicalized in racialized terms";
• the apparent connection between "ableism" and "heteropatriarchy, white supremacy, colonialism and capitalism";

There is much more, including links to some of the underlying documents confirming this insanity. Click thru.