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Anti-Fatness, Racism, and How Dems Turn Insults Into Ideology

Quinn Dombrowski from Berkeley, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

Underlying all their rhetoric about feminism, racism, body positivity, and LGBTQ “affirmation” is Democrats’ false, insulting, and subversive belief that the very people they claim to help are too stupid and worthless to survive without their support.

Thus when leftists say that the system is "rigged" against "black and brown kids," what they really mean is that they believe black and brown kids are too dumb to score well (though historically, in the post-Civil War era, some black schools had higher scores than white schools). Therefore, instead of improving education in predominantly black or Hispanic areas, which would expose the lie and make the students less vulnerable to Commie propaganda, Democrats just inflate grades and whine about "racism." It's the 19th century Democrat lie about the "natural inferiority" of Africans revamped for a new era.

Or take accusations of misogyny from the left. They never care about true violations of women's rights — like “trans” men in women’s sports — so when they spout feminist platitudes, they always operate on two base assumptions. First, that women are only laudable and valuable if they are engaging in traditionally masculine behavior; and second, that women cannot rise on merit and thus must be artificially helped by quotas and programs. Hence leftists always cry out against hiring or scholarships or military standards that are objective and blind to sex or race. Who exactly are the real racists and misogynists?

We see the same sort of elitist prejudice apparent in such claims as the following nonsense from the University of California, Berkeley's University Health Services, which claims that "anti-Fatness" stems from "anti-Black racism." The brutal and false claim underlying this is that ethnic minorities should not and could not be expected to lead healthy lifestyles, so we just have to assure the poor saps that their obesity is fine. Which would certainly have insulted and astounded the hard-working black Americans of the 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Just read the condescending nonsense from UC Berkeley’s “Body Diversity & Weight Inclusion” webpage:

Weight-based bias, or weight stigma, refers to the prejudicial treatment individuals face due to their body weight or size. This form of discrimination, particularly anti-fatness, can significantly impact various aspects of university life, including academic performance, mental health, and social inclusion, as individuals in larger bodies are often the most marginalized and face systemic bias and exclusion. While UC Berkeley is known for its commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging, and justice (DEIBJ), anti-fatness, rooted in the same systems of oppression as anti-Black racism, remains a largely unaddressed issue.

You can’t get much more Orwellian than “individuals in larger bodies.” The difference between Marxist drivel and America’s founding Judeo-Christian ethic is that the former argues some people must be artificially rewarded because they could never earn anything on their own. The latter says some people must be honestly criticized so they can overcome their weaknesses and reach their full potential.

Now America has to decide which belief system it will embrace.

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