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Originally Posted by flamingdog
Yes, I suffer from osteo-arthritis...maybe one day I'll be chained to a wheelchair...my point was about prejudice against the overweight, namely that the same prejudice is frequently packaged in the context of helpful or informative advice on how to lose weight, or the notion that weight loss is somehow correlative to looking and feeling better about yourself, when I don't think it necessarily is. Regardless of how I personally feel about my weight, there's still a prejudice in play here.
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I'm sorry to hear about your condition - that stinketh to high heaven. I'm not arguing that there is prejudice against the overweight displayed here and elsewhere, but particularly in the post you picked out and some others like it. I wouldn't say that those posts mirror my own thoughts on my cellulited brethren and sistren - but I will say that a. I think that
some of the posts deemed inflammatory are just people expressing their opinions, and a lot of opinions technically have some prejudice in them in the most general sense. Can one judge without being judgemental? (ie. I don't like smelly people. I just don't. I welcome them to be smelly, but in my opinion it's just nasty. I'd like to throw deodorant sticks at every single one of them. But I don't, because I want to be tolerated too, etc) b. I would rather internally filter out inflammatory posts that aren't directly insulting by skipping them, than have it done for me such that everything becomes some big patty-cake party. Bleecchhh!!! c. while I have no problem with fat people, I don't like the fact that people are fat. That's just me.
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Originally Posted by billege
You might also think it's thier failure to be honest with themselves that makes them disagree. I'd say that it's your refusal to consider they're being honest, both with you and themselves, that's at issue.
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I found this interesting, because I can see no way for an individual such as
lindsey to make this determination. It seems that we all have to project our mental processes on others in order to have any understanding of their thought processes, otherwise they remain indeterminant to us. While that is interesting, I don't see how it's useful. Incidentally, I agree with your post - I just thought it was interesting. Also, everyone knows blacks aren't thieves, it's the Puerto Ricans.
edit: Tecoyah - I just saw your post. If you or anyone else happens to be not only very smelly, but very dedicated to the smelly cause, I apologize for any offense and will happy to modify my post.