WaCoder said:Pete said:Today, i would like to discuss fat people with all of you...
What do we know about fat people? Other than that they are obese, i
mean...
Generally speaking, fat people are lazy and stupid.
This is the most insulting, uninformed, prejudiced, bigoted statement I
have ever heard in my life.
Born yesterday?
Many fat people ARE lazy and stupid.
Many skinny people are as well, as are many short, tall, foreign, male,
female etc. The OP was quite partially correct, generally speaking, people
are lazy and stupid, no need to qualify with "fat".
If you had replaced "fat" with "black" or
Quoted message said:"Mexican", you would have been dismissed out of hand as a bigot, racist,
stupid and not worth the time of day.
Why would you presume that someone who disliked blacks or Mexicans was stupid?
Prejudice has nothing to do with intellect, it has to do with experience.
Look at how many very intelligent Jews for instance are openly prejudiced
about Arabs? That not count in your world-view? A great many blacks are
openly disparaging, intolerant and prejudiced toward Caucasians. That not
count either? Many lesbians are prejudiced against men. It goes on.
It's human being we are talking about here, and there has NEVER been a
perfect group of humans by conventional, totally unrealistic PC standards.
They are all a mass of personal prejudices, biases, preferences and
misconceptions. Our primal survival responses make us distrust anything
that we are not fully familiar with - xenophobia is natural, it has to be
"untaught". It is also normal in the animal world, although there are
exceptions, as a rule different species do not mix in a social context.
But just because you're bashing
Quoted message said:fat ppl, you think you can get away with it. For shame....
You can get away with bashing anybody on usenet. Different thing of course
if it was done when in the same room as the person being "bashed".
Remember the old Archie Bunker classic? "The only thing that I can't stand
is bigots and [censored]".
Socky
