(January 15, 2014 at 10:21 pm)Tea Earl Grey Hot Wrote: If people could choose their skin color, would that make racism justifiable? The special pleading used make fatphobia acceptable is pathetic.
Couldn't disagree more.
Skin color is an immutable trait. Thus judgment on it is considered wrong as there is nothing that can be done about it.
On the other extreme,embracing a political ideology is a concious knowing decision and thus can be judged.
Being fat, except in the very few cases of genetic predisposition, is more akin to bad habits and addiction.
Now, can you judge addicts like political ideologies can be judged or not judge at all like skin color?
I warrant it is in between, and thus can be judged.
The degree to which you can judge has to be determined however.
Slave to the Patriarchy no more
