I only make fat jokes about my skinny friends.
I try not to discriminate against larger folk, but they don't just wake up fat one day. Sure there are exceptions that can't help but be obese for a valid medical reason (and for the sake of argument I am not addressing this group, so please don't try to pidgeonhole me about whatever case of hereditary obesity or an overactive thyroid gland, I'm talking about the people who make themselves fat), but a lot of fat people are so by their own habits. For a lot of people it's hard to lose weight once it's been put on, but how hard would it have been to look in the mirror while they were putting the weight on and say "there's something about my life that I should change"? On a side note, people who gain a lot of weight then turn around and try to sue McDonalds or whatever totally piss me off, they didn't object to the saturated fats and oils when they were shoving them down their own gullet.
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Overweight people are disapproved of according to defining physical characteristics and perception of personal choice, the same as many prejudices against those of color.
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The first part I agree with, fat people are discriminated against because of the way our society perceives beauty. America is one of the only countries in the world where it's generally considered unattractive to be big. But the second part I don't get, you say it's a personal choice but in the next sentence you say
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I submit this qualifies fat people as a race, since they can't lose weight by wishing for it any more than a black man can be white at will.
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Losing weight may not be an overnight undertaking, but neither is GETTING fat. And you want to classify fat people as a race by referencing the way they're discriminated? In that case geeks, jocks, loners, stoners, and crackheads should be classified as a race, since they can't change their body type or habits overnight or simply by wishing it...
Race is a man-made classification that exists to put up walls between us and people who look differently, it serves no purpose other than to clarify what group of people is getting picked on for which reasons. Instead of trying to put up more walls around people by creating more "races", why don't we tear down the word; it's only use is for bigotry.