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Old 11-23-2003, 07:12 AM   #13 (permalink)
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Originally posted by tokaok
hurray, lets add one more party to the polarity politics game.

/sarcasm off

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Originally posted by Clewd
I think the question holo is posing is why fat people are receiving negative treatment AS IF they were a racial group while other groups with vices just as unhealthy are not.
I'm not submitting that the overweight should be treated as a race,even tho removing discrimination from them in the workplace would be a good thing...I'm saying they have many characteristics that define them physically just as racial groups do. I see many think of being fat as a choice still, and my response is that a person of color could get injections and surgery to make themselves more "white" in the time it took for a 100lb+ over wieght person to be thin. I'm saying that at the time a fat person is being discriminated against they cannot change their appearance right away to remove the stigma like a hippie or a goth could.



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Originally posted by eribrav
Perfect!

When did we become so obsessed with defining everyone as a victim of something or another? Race, sex, height, weight, income etc. etc. etc. It just seems to go on and on. Those who seek divisiveness like to make different people feel like victims of one sort or another, so that they can make them into a constituency by promising to bring them goodies (i.e. other people's sympathy and money) for being part of the victimized group.
To end the treatment as a second class citizen is "goodies"? It's not about sympathy...it's about seeing every person as potentially equal just like we are expected to do with people of color. You don't know the 300lb guy you see walking down the street. Go to some warehouses or other hard manual labor...you'll find fat guys that can do more physical labor than many unfit skinny people. I've seen many "fat" people in better shape than a rail thin smoker. I'm saying we are expected to not judge a colored person by looking at them but by their actions. I believe fat people should be accorded the same.
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