If someone wants to be fat but they also understand the negative health concerns that come with it, so be it. There is absolutely no reason to treat them as a lesser person.
That's not quite true. Obesity is the single biggest impact to our health system, representing around 20% of our yearly healthcare expenditures and growing. It's literally weighing down the system for everyone else, and possibly costing us the opportunity to start rolling out universal healthcare with no additional increase in taxes.
These "fat activists" need to be mocked and slapped with evidence until they rescind their incorrect worldview.
...so that means you need to treat them as lesser of a person?
I ask because that's what you quoted and then said "That's not true" to.
I mean do you consider mocking someone's beliefs to be treating them as lesser of a person? We might need to resort to shaming in order to curb the problem, because other things clearly aren't working.
We aren't talking about beliefs here. We are talking about treating someone as lesser because you don't like what they look like.
And lol, we've been shaming fat people since forever and "clearly thats not working" so I'm not sure why you're suggesting it. This whole fat acceptance thing is pretty much a reaction to the constant shaming.
Tbh it seems like the whales are banding together and saying shit like "fat is healthy" because no one wants to bang them and they want to redefine what beauty is, not because of any exorbitant amount of shaming.
If you go on these whales' twitter pages, what you'll mostly see is a vast sea of other whales giving these comments likes and retweets, with the shaming being quite scant if it's even there at all.
I feel like you're being purposely oblivious here. Just look no further than this topic for example of how flippantly other are jackasses to fat people for no real reason, you're trying to say that you don't think they experience that pretty much daily in real life? Give me a break. THAT is probably the one thing that fat acceptance people actually have a valid point about. Of course they aren't going to shame each other on Twitter. Most of them have probably been getting shamed for most of their lives and are looking for a place to escape it. That's why they band together because they have similar experiences from being fat shamed constantly.
I 100% agree that this whole "healthy at every size" BS needs to go away, but all I ask is that people don't be disingenous about their reasons for being jackasses to fat people in general. When you're saying "Put the fork down fatty", the foremost thing on your mind isn't "I'm helping reduce the overall costs of health insurance!!"
Obese people represent 20% of our yearly healthcare expenditures and growing. If anything, they need to be shamed even more. Until they realize they're literally killing other people by blocking up the healthcare system and reducing access to care for people who actually need it. ---