Attention Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy. The National Institutes of Health is flinging our money to the four winds in the name of moonbat ideology:

A public university in Pennsylvania is getting $5 million from American taxpayers to research the effectiveness of a special center it launched in 2021 to address systemic racism. It is called the Racial Equity Consciousness Institute (RECI) and its founders at the University of Pittsburgh claim it is essential because “systemic racism is an endemic public health crisis in the United States that has a profoundly negative impact on the mental and physical health of millions of people—focally, people of color.”

Pitt being a public school, taxpayers are already funding it, even before federal grant support.

Since it was launched by Ron Idoko, who previously worked at the school’s Office for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, RECI has worked to eradicate systemic racism by developing a critical understanding of the complex and pervasive ways it operates and establishing strategies to foster racial equity.

That is, to mandate that all of us be defined by race, and that members of disfavored races do not achieve more than members of favored races.

You have to hand it to cultural Marxists; they came up with a clever strategy for tearing our country apart.

The institute uses “structured cognitive behavioral training” (SCBT) to address and determine thoughts, feelings and behaviors toward racial equity and justice.

Such brainwashing tactics are as close as any of this comes to science — unless you count this:

The research funded by the NIH will focus on identifying the effectiveness of RECI training as well as other bias drills on diversity and attitudes that perpetuate systemic racism in healthcare outcomes, especially among marginalized communities. Outcomes of the intervention will be measured through questionnaires and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) that looks for structural brain changes before and after the program.

The objective of the NIH is supposed to be to make Americans healthier. As with the rest of the federal leviathan, often the actual purpose appears to be to offer other people’s flagrantly wasted money as burnt offerings to the unholy gods of wokeness.

On a tip from ABC of the ANC.