The pandemic unleashed the inner cop that a lot of otherwise liberal people were apparently barely containing. Now it's spilling out all over the place and into fat-shaming, as evidenced by this NY Times column by Jane Brody. https://t.co/381oZXgRhS pic.twitter.com/EU16vUKALs
— Amanda Marcotte (@AmandaMarcotte) March 17, 2021
Why, just why, must we pretend that obesity is a good thing? Again, how does this help? Of course, we know who it helps: the food conglomerates and their shareholders. But how have people allowed such toxic corporate propaganda so far into their brains?
Try this: “Treating cancer is your ‘inner cop’ coming out. We must just accept cancer. Chemotherapy and doxorubicin are cancer-shaming, and we should just acknowledge the natural beauty of cancer. Wanting to change the cancer, to fix the cancer, just shows that you haven’t accepted the natural variation of humanity.”
Sounds fucking ridiculous, doesn’t it? Yet that’s exactly what these nutty buddies say about the disease of obesity. And we should critique their claims just as harshly.