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In reply to the discussion: Fat shaming is deplorable and this board is littered with it. [View all]meadowlander
(4,388 posts)The point is that when you say "Trump is fat" what you mean is "Trump is bad" and therefore "fat=bad" and therefore all the other people who are fat are bad. It's not objectionable that you are insulting Trump (and therefore his behaviour prompting it is irrelevant). It's objectionable because you are insulting fat people by implying there is something wrong with being fat.
When you say "Ann Coulter is a bitch" what you mean is "She is a female dog", "female dogs are bad", "females who behave in a certain way (generally and historically 'asserting an opinion') are bad" and therefore all women who have opinions are bad. You are reinforcing historic oppression by tapping into the language of the oppressor. "She deserves it" isn't the point. The point is that we shouldn't reinforce the language of the oppressor in front of other people who are regularly victims of it and who don't "deserve it" - whatever that means.
Nobody "deserves" to be disrespected because of the way they look or how they were born. There's plenty of other things to attack Trump about.