DEI class at UCLA med school says weight loss is useless

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After the death of George Floyd, the University of California's David Geffen School of Medicine mandated that all first-year students take a DEI course titled "Structural Racism and Health Equity."

The course recently made headlines after a guest lecturer who celebrated the Oct. 7 Hamas terror attacks led students in chanting, "Free, Free Palestine," as well as in pagan earth worship. It appears its contents are similarly provocative.

According to a course syllabus and corresponding documents obtained by the Washington Free Beacon, students will learn about

- 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";

- the supposed positives of sex-change mutilation;

- the apparent value in abolishing prisons;

- "how race and class contributes to a patient's ability to access and receive gender-affirming care"; and

- the "role of healthcare workers within community organizing and protest."

A section entitled "Our Hxstories" reportedly adds that "[h]ealth and medical practice are deeply impacted by racism and other intersectional structures of power, hierarchy, and oppression — all of which require humility, space and patience to understand, deconstruct, and eventually rectify."

Another reading provides potential doctors with a list of demands to echo, including calls for a cancellation of Third World debt; state-controlled agricultural policies responding "to people's needs and not to the demands of the market"; state control and taxation of speculative international capital flows; gender, equity, and environmental impact assessments for all economic polices; and an end to "growth-centered economic theories."

... the medical profession watchdog Do No Harm has revealed "23 of America's top 25 medical schools now have anti-racism instruction as the core part of their curriculum."

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