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Jesse the K ([personal profile] jesse_the_k) wrote in [personal profile] davidgillon 2015-04-16 08:43 pm (UTC)

You said: the Tories are now officially fat shaming in their manifesto, they threaten to cut the benefits of anyone disabled and obese if they 'refuse recommended treatment', with the clear implication that anyone who does is a lazy scrounger. The idea of compelled treatment is bad enough, but obesity in disability is generally the result of disability, not vice versa, which means the Tories are deliberately instigating disability hate as a manifesto policy.

They couldn't be instigating hate if fat-shaming wasn't so deeply engrossed in our culture, no matter whether the fat person has an impairment. I'm sure you'd agree that shaming fat people for being fat is not productive: we know we're fat. Pride, promise, and dreams are better inducements to change than shame anyway.

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