'Fat activist' lectures college kids on 'thin privilege'

[Text Drivers are Killers]

Fatties cost us a fortune in medical bills. Plus they're ugly. I say hang them.

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2016/05/11/fat-activist-lectures-college-kids-on-thin-privilege.html

may 11 2016 A self-proclaimed "fat activist" gave college kids in Minnesota yet another issue to angrily protest: Thin privilege.

To mark “International No Diet Day,” the University of Minnesota's School of Public Health invited Virgie Tovar, a Cal-Berkeley lecturer and “fat activist,” to instruct America’s future nutritionists, dietitians and social workers on the finer points of “fat oppression.”

Tovar’s talk, entitled “Dispelling Myths: Fat, Fatphobia, and Challenging Social Stereotypes,” was designed to help students understand that “fat phobia” is rampant in a “white, heteronormative society” that is looking to actively oppress people with larger body types. Society’s bias against fat people is, apparently, a form of bigotry and discrimination, evident in everything from sexual preferences to the size of seats on public transportation.

She even, reportedly, compared society’s anti-fat culture to so-called “rape culture,” and chastised society for its obsession with what she termed “thin privilege.”

 

[evince]

no end to the list of people you hate huh

 

[cawacko]

no end to the list of people you hate huh

IRONY ALERT

 

[Text Drivers are Killers]

Only people who don't have privilege in this country are white males. They get persecuted at every turn and yet they still run the country. What does that tell you about who has ability?

 

[Celticguy]

This cracked me up. I can just picture them standing there with their bag if cheetos and 2 liter pepsi getting worked up and spraying orange colored spittle everywhere.

 

[tsuke]

Only people who don't have privilege in this country are white males. They get persecuted at every turn and yet they still run the country. What does that tell you about who has ability?

do fat white males have privelage D:

 

[Text Drivers are Killers]

do fat white males have privelage D:

NOPE. Nothing supersedes being a white male. You can be fat and queer and disabled and a tranny but if you're a white male you still get persecuted by the law.