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Anonymous
Plenty more on that guy's blog.
http://www.amptoons.com/blog/archives/category/fat-fat-and-more-fat/
Its true no one has been lynched for being fat (although fat people have died due to lousy good medical care for fat people). Its also true that anyone who says fat rights is just like the black civil rights movement! is being an idiot.
But so what? Being Black is not like being fat is not like being female is not like being queer is not like being disabled is not like being Asian is not like being trans is not like being poor is not like being
No marginalized groups experience is exactly like any others. No ones experiences are interchangeable. But the legitimacy of fat activists complaints doesnt depend on us showing our experiences are exactly like the black experience, or the lesbian experience, etc..
Its about justice.
The reason fat activists have formed a movement is that its unjust to be denied good medical care because were fat; we think its unjust that we can get fired for being fat; we think its unjust that we face job and wage discrimination because were fat; we think its unjust that we can be charged more for basic services (like insurance) because were fat; its unjust that people glance at us and assume that were lazy and care nothing for ourselves; and yes, although youll sneer at this as the right to feel good, its unjust that fat people are taught from childhood to think of themselves as deficient, wrong, and disgusting.
Anit-fat bigotry isnt wrong because its the same as facing lynch mobs. Its wrong because its unjust. Its unjust because were human and dont deserve to be treated as second-class people because of the shape of our bodies.
That not the claim that being fat is at all like being black is why fat activists fight.
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