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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.
All first year students are assigned an essay by Marquisele Mercedes, a self-described “fat liberationist,” who “describes how weight came to be pathologized and medicalized in racialized terms” and offers guidance on “resisting entrenched fat oppression,” per the syllabus.
Mercedes claims that “ob*sity” is a slur “used to exact violence on fat people”— particularly “Black, disabled, trans, poor fat people”—and offers a “fat ode to care” that students are instructed to analyze, taking note of which sections “most resonate with you.”
The assignment shocked Jeffrey Flier, the former dean of Harvard Medical School and one of the world’s foremost experts on obesity, who said the curriculum “promotes extensive and dangerous misinformation.”
UCLA “has centered this required course on a socialist/Marxist ideology that is totally inappropriate,” said @jflier, who reviewed the full syllabus and several of the assigned readings. “As a longstanding medical educator, I found this course truly shocking.”
Full article at Free Beacon.