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Fatties, watch out! Liberals are out to get YOU! They're even willing to:
1. Villify the marginally overweight so that they can capture a greater number of "sinners." (What is different about categorizing Buffy as fat than pointing fingers at Jordan Sparks? MeMe Roth and Dickerson are one in the same.) Who's next to be labeled "fat"? Paris Hilton? When the range of what is normal is so limited that only a very few can actually achieve it, it's time to read this as a moral panic, not reality. Progressives' fat hate rhetoric=evangelical rants against homosexuality. Both are disgusting.
2. Mask their utterly disgusting prejudice of fat bodies by suggesting fatness is a "health issue." Evidence: Even the CDC's data shows that moderately overweight bodies (BMI's of up to 29 or so--I can't remember the exact number) outlive thinner counterparts. Look it up for yourselves and see the sheer incongruity between what gets reported in the media and the actual data. This is no different than worries that Japanese Americans were going to take over after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. I wouldn't be surprised if fat folks were rounded up soon and taken to their own interrment camps. The only difference between then and now is that there wouldn't even be a small minority of rational, progressive thinkers who would support their release.
3. Believe, contrary to any evidence whatsoever, that fatness can be "cured." I dare any of you fat haters to find JUST ONE STUDY ANYWHERE that illustrates that more than 5% of any study population's weight can be significantly reduced and maintained over five years time. No diet, lifestyle change or any other name for calorie/food restriction has ever produced significant weight loss in a significant segment of the population. Weight loss is a THEORETICAL idea, as likely to be achieved in the near future as TIME TRAVEL. Belief in supernatural cures/fixes also signals a moral panic.
Unfortunately, rising rates of fatness occurs from the psychological deprivation diets cause and the resulting binge eating. That's why dieters almost always gain the weight back and then some.
Yikes.
