Just when you think Americans couldn’t get any more dense, The University of Maryland will soon be offering a fat studies course. The course is aimed at examining fatness as a social justice issue. Its main curriculum will examine how being overweight is related to being black and how this affects social justice. This sounds like a very racist course, especially coming from a very liberal college. Why would they link obesity to black people? Are they trying to perpetuate a stereotype?
Believe it or not, the class is already full and there is a waitlist. The course is considered an elective and can be used as a general education course for graduation. Some professors from nearby Universities are criticizing the course as unnecessary and another example of victimizing a certain group of people.
The mere idea of creating a class like this is laughable. Why on earth would they even call it “Fat” studies? They could have called it obesity studies or something else less insulting to the fat community. At least the brainless kids can get an easy A to help their failing GPA, assuming these are the types of kids taking this course.
