UCLA medical school's mandatory health equity class has sparked controversy by teaching students that weight loss is futile and that terms like 'obesity' are slurs. Prominent doctors, including the former dean of Harvard Medical School, are calling for an accreditation review over concerns of promoting anti-scientific ideologies and structural racism.
UCLA is forcing students to attend ‘health equity’ classes promoting ‘fat positivity’ and read an essay by ‘fat liberationist’ Marquisele Mercedes (pictured), claiming the medical term ‘obesity’ is a slur “used to exact violence on fat people.” Report: https://t.co/qyfa5UTlXN https://t.co/pFB33AJ8Nm
Meet the UCLA medical school 'fat pride' staffer whose compulsory lectures warn trainee doctors that using the word obesity is 'violence' (and she's been condemned by a top Harvard doctor) https://t.co/axsf4dfLn4 https://t.co/Leqllh6Vzv
DEI class at UCLA's medical school sets up future doctors to fight the patriarchy and accept 'weight loss is useless' https://t.co/fVbatQSfoK https://t.co/0aeCC9u2bJ
Mandatory UCLA medical school ‘Structural Racism and Health Equity’ course says weight loss is ‘useless’ https://t.co/5ISETNgu6O https://t.co/QwgUsetXt4
UCLA Med School's 'Health Equity' Class Teaches 'Weight Loss a Hopeless Endeavor,' Slams 'Fatphobia' https://t.co/chnO6aI3iW
UCLA med school's mandatory 'Structural Racism and Health Equity' course teaches weight loss is 'useless' https://t.co/RVhrNscpUS
DEADLY DEI: UCLA Med School Docs Say 'Obesity' Is a Slur, Weight Loss a 'Hopeless Endeavor' https://t.co/T2snBZ8Yjk
Mandatory first year med school class in UCLA medical school requires the top students to be indoctrinated into believing ant-scientific neo-socialist nonsense about “racism and colonialism in medicine,” “medical fatfobia,” and “housing injustice.” https://t.co/kTyUAkY1Rj
UCLA med school is a woke cesspool. Prof’s teach the word “obesity” is a slur. https://t.co/LvOlTcdaci
Jeffrey Flier--the former dean of Harvard medical school and one of the world's foremost experts on obesity and diabetes--is calling for an accreditation review of UCLA medical school over its mandatory "structural racism" class. https://t.co/RjAsUt0OrO
NEW: UCLA medical school's mandatory health equity class teaches students that weight loss is a "hopeless endeavor" and that "ob*sity" is a slur "used to exact violence on fat people." The full syllabus has shocked prominent doctors—the former dean of Harvard Medical School.🧵
"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.'" Wild…