AMA now says body mass index (BMI) is RACIST – are they calling non-white people fat?

It is no longer acceptable to use the body mass index (BMI) as a gauge for determining fatness because the American Medical Association (AMA) has decided that the measuring system is "racist."

According to the AMA, which recently issued a press release about this "important" matter, the BMI is too simple in that it uses height and weight as the basic metric for determining whether or not a person is overweight or obese. Some races and ethnicities have endured "historical harm" based on this metric, so now it must be scrapped.

The AMA contends that the BMI has been used throughout history for "racist exclusion." Its cutoffs are also "based on data collected from previous generations of non-Hispanic white populations," failing to "consider a person's gender or ethnicity."

In other words, the BMI was created back in slimmer times when the country was mostly white and much healthier than it is today with the constant influx of foreigners, meaning it is no longer valid because "minorities" finds its determinations to be offensive.