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Will_VIIII posted...

You can't seriously be equating body shaming to racial slurs

I swear to god people on the internet have a fucking aneurism if you use an analogy.

What is the principle behind why you should not call people racial slurs? Even very bad people? Explain it to me, then tell me why that same principle should not be applied to body shaming.

Here's a little spoiler--It's the same fucking principle. Slurs are particularly heinous because they have collateral effects on others of the same group even if they are not the target of the insult. If I run around calling every evil fat person some horrendous insult about their weight, then people who are good and fat will still internalize the insults themselves. This isn't even speculation--This is extremely well documented sociological principal.

"But you used an analogy and I think racial slurs are worse than fat-shaming!"

Measuring how "bad" something is isn't the point of the analogy. We're not comparing the harm they cause or how taboo the act is, we're comparing the principles behind why they are harmful/taboo.