Some people think that Chris Christie is much too out of shape to effectively hold office...

[moriah]

100. The point is there are lines.

Last edited Sat Feb 25, 2012, 04:57 PM - Edit history (1)

You kept saying there weren't. That it's my fault I took offense at an OP that was a rimshot joke at a discriminated minority. That it's "my issue". That "It's just the Internet!"

Take some of the shit you were writing and change the behavior you are defending to a different type of bigotry, and you'll understand. Or at least I hope you will.

The reason I chose race is that it's just as easy to take one look at a person and judge them based on their weight as it is to take a look at a person and judge them based on their color -- it's not something that you have to speak to a person to see about them. Nationality not always so much. And I was having an extremely difficult time making the comparison -- because changing the words others have posted in this thread and others about fat people myself to point out the double standard resulted in sentences that were so disgusting there were no way I would let come out of my mouth or fingers, even in rhetoric. There's no way I'd repeat the rimshot jokes I've heard growing up in the South.

Racism is wrong because it's bigotry and prejudice -- pre-judging a person based on one outward trait. So is fatophobia. Health concerns have nothing to do with the false character assumptions that people make about a person when they see that they are fat. They experience discrimination in employment, as this rimshot joke led to even you justifying, in far less essential offices than the Presidency -- and fortunately for many other reasons the man is not a contender this year. Because they're pre-judged lazy and weak-willed. "Just look at them!" Kids are bulled for it. Men and women have been assaulted in restrooms for it. I don't have statistics for you because they don't keep them, on any of those instances.

One form of bigotry is not better than the other. There is no "good" or "justified" prejudice based on appearance. Tolerating one is tolerating the behavior behind all. Just because people do it doesn't make it right.

I'm done. Have a good day.

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BTW: for the record: I'm not comparing being fat with being black as you seem to think. I'm comparing fatophobia with racism -- they are both bigotry, but one is accepted and encouraged, and we've mostly as a society learned that the other is wrong. A person who +1s a joke comparing a person to an animal because of a physical trait is a bigot.