The article by Ko, et al. approvingly writes about California Assembly Bill 2194 that requires an hour of continuing education in so-called cultural competency for pharmacists (approximately 32,000) and pharmacy technicians (approximately 37,000) to renew their licenses: “Requiring LGBTQ+ cultural competency training will help pharmacists uphold the Oath of a Pharmacist to promote inclusion, embrace diversity, and advocate for justice to advance health equity and to assure optimal outcomes for all patients.” The Oath of Pharmacist was updated and adopted in November 2021 by the American Academy of Colleges of Pharmacy and the American Pharmacist Association to reflect the “commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and anti-racism.” In particular, the Oath now includes the following vow, “I will promote inclusion, embrace diversity, and advocate for diversity to advance health equity”. In other words, these two organizations bowed before the asherah of BLM and included this vow.

Before proceeding to the particulars of AB 2194, which is being challenged in court, let’s define what is meant by diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging, anti-racist, etc. In its essentials, DEI, or Critical Race Theory (CRT), is Frankfurt School Marxism: Critical Theory focused on race. DEI and related initializations are hard to keep track of, so we’ll use the term Critical Cultural Revolution Theory (CCRT). It is a critical theory that is focused not only on race, but has more generally replaced Marxists’ concerns with labor with culture (race, gender, immigration status, etc.) and includes its own versions of Marx’s Labor Theory of Value and Alienation. Further, its stated purpose is cultural upheaval and the tearing down of the biases inherent in the current societal structures.