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DEI class at UCLA’s medical school sets up future doctors to fight the patriarchy and accept ‘weight loss is useless’

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 does not provide students with insights into better suturing techniques, healing methods, disease detection, biochemistry, or other conventionally useful medical skills. Rather, its stated purpose is to endow prospective physicians with a “structurally competent, anti-racist lens for viewing and treating health and illness.”

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