Comments on: The last acceptable prejudice http://resistracism.wordpress.com/2008/04/15/the-last-acceptable-prejudice/ "The need for unity is often misnamed as a need for homogeneity." Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:29:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: panracial http://resistracism.wordpress.com/2008/04/15/the-last-acceptable-prejudice/#comment-3717 panracial Thu, 15 May 2008 13:05:43 +0000 http://resistracism.wordpress.com/?p=990#comment-3717 Fear of being fat isn't bigotry or even necessarity a fear -- it's a health concern or preference. The main eating disorger in America is obesity. Fear of being fat isn’t bigotry or even necessarity a fear — it’s a health concern or preference. The main eating disorger in America is obesity.

]]> By: Atropa http://resistracism.wordpress.com/2008/04/15/the-last-acceptable-prejudice/#comment-3716 Atropa Thu, 15 May 2008 01:21:09 +0000 http://resistracism.wordpress.com/?p=990#comment-3716 Fat prejudice is one of the most actively internalized forms of bigotry. Fear of being so fat as to be unloveable/unworthy of living is one driving force behind eating disorders. There are fat people of all ages, races, sexual orientations, and genders who are obsessed with losing weight, hating their fat, becoming thinner. And, for a lot of POC who are fat by white standards but not necessarily their own ethnic standard of beauty/norm, they've internalized the fat bigotry with racism so that they equate losing weight,with becoming more 'white,' more acceptable. Fat prejudice is one of the most actively internalized forms of bigotry. Fear of being so fat as to be unloveable/unworthy of living is one driving force behind eating disorders. There are fat people of all ages, races, sexual orientations, and genders who are obsessed with losing weight, hating their fat, becoming thinner. And, for a lot of POC who are fat by white standards but not necessarily their own ethnic standard of beauty/norm, they’ve internalized the fat bigotry with racism so that they equate losing weight,with becoming more ‘white,’ more acceptable.

]]> By: panracial http://resistracism.wordpress.com/2008/04/15/the-last-acceptable-prejudice/#comment-3464 panracial Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:22:03 +0000 http://resistracism.wordpress.com/?p=990#comment-3464 You're right. Anti-thin prejudice is accepted too. I've often heard thin women refer to as freaks and overweight women referred to as "real women." You’re right. Anti-thin prejudice is accepted too. I’ve often heard thin women refer to as freaks and overweight women referred to as “real women.”

]]> By: A http://resistracism.wordpress.com/2008/04/15/the-last-acceptable-prejudice/#comment-3460 A Thu, 17 Apr 2008 01:19:25 +0000 http://resistracism.wordpress.com/?p=990#comment-3460 Too thin a sin in French law http://torontosun.com/News/World/2008/04/16/5297681-sun.html Too thin a sin in French law

http://torontosun.com/News/World/2008/04/16/5297681-sun.html

]]> By: ivy http://resistracism.wordpress.com/2008/04/15/the-last-acceptable-prejudice/#comment-3456 ivy Wed, 16 Apr 2008 20:22:47 +0000 http://resistracism.wordpress.com/?p=990#comment-3456 Why is it that when people engage in a discussion about fat discrimination someone ALWAYS throws out a story about a 300lb person? Reality is there are people who are much smaller than 300 pounds who face weight discrimination. The problem is that no one knows why anyone is overweight. Are they on medication? Did they sustain an injury while they were being active? Are they Ben & Jerry's loving lazy people who don't want to get up and exercise? In any instance, it is no one's business to judge. As someone who is not obese, I rarely paid attention to these discussions...until a post appeared on Racialicious. The comments that appeared proved to me that weight bias is alive and real. Even though racial inequality tops my attention list, I do recognize that size discrimination is something people deal with regularly. Why is it that when people engage in a discussion about fat discrimination someone ALWAYS throws out a story about a 300lb person? Reality is there are people who are much smaller than 300 pounds who face weight discrimination.

The problem is that no one knows why anyone is overweight. Are they on medication? Did they sustain an injury while they were being active? Are they Ben & Jerry’s loving lazy people who don’t want to get up and exercise? In any instance, it is no one’s business to judge.

As someone who is not obese, I rarely paid attention to these discussions…until a post appeared on Racialicious. The comments that appeared proved to me that weight bias is alive and real.

Even though racial inequality tops my attention list, I do recognize that size discrimination is something people deal with regularly.

]]> By: panracial http://resistracism.wordpress.com/2008/04/15/the-last-acceptable-prejudice/#comment-3449 panracial Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:05:04 +0000 http://resistracism.wordpress.com/?p=990#comment-3449 Macon D, classism drives me crazy! Especially Joe Bageant! Especially Barbara Ehrenreich in Nickle and Dimed -- she spends half the movie mocking the poor. As a person of color when I hear a white liberal who's progressive about race mock poor whites, I think, this guy hasn't learned anything at all, he's just transferred his hate b/c he has to feel superior to somebody. As a white woman I know who grew up on welfare and now has her Ph D said, blaming poor whites for racism is a way for liberals and educated whites to displace racism onto another class of white people -- after all, is it so-called poor white trash practicing redlining, or denying loans to business, or keeping private schools like the one I attended exclusive? Macon, read the essay "Who are these White People?" in White Out by Ashley W. Doane. Macon D, classism drives me crazy! Especially Joe Bageant! Especially Barbara Ehrenreich in Nickle and Dimed — she spends half the movie mocking the poor. As a person of color when I hear a white liberal who’s progressive about race mock poor whites, I think, this guy hasn’t learned anything at all, he’s just transferred his hate b/c he has to feel superior to somebody. As a white woman I know who grew up on welfare and now has her Ph D said, blaming poor whites for racism is a way for liberals and educated whites to displace racism onto another class of white people — after all, is it so-called poor white trash practicing redlining, or denying loans to business, or keeping private schools like the one I attended exclusive? Macon, read the essay “Who are these White People?” in White Out by Ashley W. Doane.

]]> By: Macon D http://resistracism.wordpress.com/2008/04/15/the-last-acceptable-prejudice/#comment-3445 Macon D Wed, 16 Apr 2008 04:47:54 +0000 http://resistracism.wordpress.com/?p=990#comment-3445 What about classism? The jokes made everywhere at the expense of poor white people are despicable. Sickening. "Joe Dirt," for example, is one of the meanest, nastiest movies I've ever seen. Macon D What about classism? The jokes made everywhere at the expense of poor white people are despicable. Sickening. “Joe Dirt,” for example, is one of the meanest, nastiest movies I’ve ever seen.

Macon D

]]> By: resistance http://resistracism.wordpress.com/2008/04/15/the-last-acceptable-prejudice/#comment-3442 resistance Wed, 16 Apr 2008 02:01:36 +0000 http://resistracism.wordpress.com/?p=990#comment-3442 Well, why can't people of color act more like white people? And why can't women act more like men? Actually, a creed is more like a CONDITION. Why can't people just change their religion if they are being persecuted? Well, why can’t people of color act more like white people? And why can’t women act more like men?

Actually, a creed is more like a CONDITION. Why can’t people just change their religion if they are being persecuted?

]]> By: flabbyabby http://resistracism.wordpress.com/2008/04/15/the-last-acceptable-prejudice/#comment-3440 flabbyabby Wed, 16 Apr 2008 01:46:45 +0000 http://resistracism.wordpress.com/?p=990#comment-3440 Maybe the reason is is that you can CHANGE fat come on people!! I don't believe it's okay to treat anyone with bigotry for being 'different' to society's norms however fat is not a race,creed,color,sex,age,height,disability,etc. it's a CONDITION and one that the person chose at that. When I heard about the woman who sued for disability because she was 300 some pounds I burst out laughing then I wanted to sue HER and the entire court system for being so galatically stupid and wasting the courts time with that nonsense. Granted liek I said no prejudice is acceptable but what's even LESS so is people who try to piggyback[no pun intended]on REAL discrimination issues because THEY are too gutless to change their own lives. Maybe the reason is is that you can CHANGE fat come on people!! I don’t believe it’s okay to treat anyone with bigotry for being ‘different’ to society’s norms however fat is not a race,creed,color,sex,age,height,disability,etc. it’s a CONDITION and one that the person chose at that. When I heard about the woman who sued for disability because she was 300 some pounds I burst out laughing then I wanted to sue HER and the entire court system for being so galatically stupid and wasting the courts time with that nonsense. Granted liek I said no prejudice is acceptable but what’s even LESS so is people who try to piggyback[no pun intended]on REAL discrimination issues because THEY are too gutless to change their own lives.

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