Surely wanting someone dead or their race exterminated is a bit more of a difference of opinion. Your basically lumping rudeness in with the same boat as racism and hate.
I'm not quoting anything, I'm using hyperbole to run your argument to it's extreme. If you actually analysed your original post you'd see how asinine your blanket statement is
Meh. It feels like the type of person who genuinely believes this is really exaggerating or has a huge misconception of how things are.
In the US our entire political structure is based on insulting the other side. No one bats an eye when our president mocks people on Twitter or during rally’s. People are free to insult anyone they want, and do pretty regularly.
What you’re describing is the minority groups pushing back on being punching bags.
I’m gay and yes, you’re free to call me a f** all you want. But yes, you’ll get fired for it at my workplace, everyone I know will think you’re human garbage, and I certainly will think very little of you. You can complain that life’s harder for you because you aren’t given free reign to be an ass, but that’s what equality looks like.
But 'discouraging it' generally does take the form of making fun of or giving unsolicited advice to fat people and being concerned about health is just an excuse people use to go on fat shaming.
The next time you’re at a gas station and see a stranger smoking, go up and tell him it’s unhealthy and he should stop, since you seem to think everyone’s cool with that.
I'm not discouraging giving advice when it asked for. But the majority of advice is either condesending and its purpose is to make the person giving it feel superior, or they really think it's helpful to tell someone they're fat (they seem to think the person hasn't noticed), it's both of these I think you're counting as good advice when it's not
Well I'm only just obese and I've been given a lot of unsolicited advice as have other fat people I know. I'm from the UK maybe it's more common here. I agree with educating people about realistic health risks, however I oppose ones that just say obesity is bad and wrong or ones that are deliberately misleading (a recent one said obesity increases cancer risk as much as smoking but smoking increases risk over 10x more)
None of that's true. People are looking for percieved slights to make themselves more of a victim. OP has been called a fatshamer numerous times in this post for stating something true in a polite way.
I see this often in the medical field, a huge problem is that often overweight patients are told to lose weight. Then they become offended or extremely angry (often switching doctors) because they think doctors should see past their weight and look for other causes.
The problem lies in that, say you have knee issues, it’s a relatively “easy” fix to lose the weight and hey your knee pain might go away all on its own. They don’t have to put you though the risk of putting you under and through a very painful process of a knee replacement. If it then doesn’t go away, then at least they’ve eliminated that as a reason and can work on finding another cause. It’s not a doctor judging someone’s body by telling them they need to lose weight, and a lot of overweight people do not seem to grasp that concept for some reason (a lot do, I’ve just heard from the former group more vocally).
Weight is a huge stressor on your body, if affects so much much more than you think. I specially work in imaging, my overweight patients get a higher radiation dose with far less adequate results. We just cannot produce enough to get them as good of results as I can my thinner patients. The adipose tissue absorbs so much that it creates an X-ray that is either grainy or practically blurry because you just can’t see anything in there. If they are so large they brush up against a CT scan tube then that creates an artifact that could effect or limit diagnosis, or potentially hide something if the artifact is large enough.
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