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In reply to the discussion: Can we stop fat shaming politicians we don't like? [View all]athena
(4,187 posts)Fat-shaming Trump makes Trump's fat-shaming of others acceptable. Isn't that obvious? If liberals really believed that fat-shaming was a bad thing, they wouldn't do it. We don't, for example, torture prisoners based on whether they are from a country that tortures its prisoners. If something is wrong, it is wrong, period. Just as it is not OK to use racist slurs to attack a black person who happens to be a bigot, it is not OK to fat-shame a fat person who happens to be a bigot.
No one is advocating "respectfully backing off" on Trump. No one. Did you read my post? I pointed out several ways of attacking Trump that would be more likely to hurt Trump than fat-shaming him. There is zero evidence that Trump is conscious of his weight, let alone sensitive about it. There is, on the other hand, plenty of evidence that Trump is sensitive about other things like his inauguration crowd size and the fact that he didn't win the popular vote. Fat-shaming Trump, I'm sorry to say, is just a way for people who are not fat to feel superior to those who are fat. That's the way it is with all forms of bigotry. And I say this as someone whose weight is and has always been in what is considered the "normal" range.