Michael Knowles DEBUNKS Fatphobia TikToks
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Fatphobia is a new scourge afflicting America, and it's getting even crazier than racism, sexism, homophobia, and homophobia. Is fatphobia a new form of racism? Is it a new type of sexism, or is it just another form of homophobia?
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I know you've all heard about the scourges of racism and sexism and this-ism and that-ism,
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but one of the isms and the phobias that you might not have heard too much about is fat phobia.
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People are invading against fat phobia and they're making some pretty strange arguments to do it.
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We have ranked all of the arguments from craziest to even more craziest about fat phobia.
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There are plenty of reasons we are told to hate America today.
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America is racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, all sorts of phobias and various things we're told.
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But there's a new one on the list and you might not have heard about it yet.
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My producer has been getting a lot of these videos.
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He wants me to react to the new great scourge affecting America, fat phobia.
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I think it's time for another adult pre-K lesson.
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I'm looking for a partner who likes kayaking or wakes up early in the morning or loves pizza.
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But when your preferences exclude an entire group of marginalized people, that's problematic.
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If you lump all fat people in one group together as though they are not very different individuals, that's fat phobic.
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Just like lumping all black people in one group and saying, I don't like black people is racist.
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And lumping all disabled people in one group and saying, I don't think people in wheelchairs are hot is ableist.
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Why do they always do that creepy, like giggly, you know, really intense?
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All of the left, I'm not saying all the fat people.
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I'm saying all the radical leftists do that sort of thing.
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Her claim, of course, is that if you're not attracted to fat people, that you're a bigot.
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If you're not attracted to any group, then your preference ceases to be a preference.
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Now, I don't quite understand that illogic there.
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I am closed-minded in as much as I'm excluding some people from my preferences.
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But let's take it further because she compares it to race.
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And she says it's racist, you know, if you're not attracted to every single
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race, if a Japanese guy wants to marry a Japanese girl, right?
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He's more attracted to Japanese girls than he is to, say, Nigerian girls or Scandinavian
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If a Jew wants to marry another Jew, is that racist?
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That's, you know, you always hear that a Jewish mother always wants to make sure her daughter
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But is there something wrong about that for people to feel attraction to certain groups
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But the radical liberation of this ideology, you know, that you see in radical feminism,
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radical sexual revolution stuff, you know, LGBT, radical this, radical that, demands that
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we be open to everything and not have any preferences.
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Ironically, she's saying, she's denying my lived experience.
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She's saying, if you have this preference, then you're some sort of bigot.
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Not very persuasive, even if we all catch a bubble in our mouth and listen, not very convincing.
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For the millionth time, body positivity is not a movement about health.
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So when you bring health into it, you are being fat phobic.
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The body positive movement was created by fat black women in the 60s.
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To one, create a safe space for fat people to address systemic fat phobia and fat oppression.
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Because nine times out of ten, fat people are not treated like people in 95% of situations.
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And it was also created to challenge, oh good light, society's unrealistic beauty standards.
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And to showcase that beauty is not dictated by your size.
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So when you bring health into a movement that is not about health, ring-a-ding-ding, that's fat phobia.
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This is the worst example of when you put a vertical video on a screen and then they put the thing.
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It looks like multiple of this woman are just screaming at me every second.
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It's fat phobia, she says, to suggest that maybe people be healthy.
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She says the fat acceptance movement, the body positivity movement is not about health.
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You know, we ought to be able to say that it's not good.
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If you're too skinny, we would call that anorexic and say you've got to beef up a little bit.
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And if you're extremely overweight, then, you know, it's not the end of the world.
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But it might be good to get into a healthier position.
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But we're not allowed to have standards at all.
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Forget about just, she's just focusing on standards of beauty.
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But we're not even allowed to have standards of health.
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We're not allowed to say that one thing is healthier than another thing.
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We're not allowed to say that one thing looks better than another thing.
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The standards have to go away according to the left.
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Because for the left, everything is, for the extreme left, I should say, everything is just a product of social construction.
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So if you can redefine the words, you can redefine reality itself.
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And this woman is very upset because no matter how much we redefine all of our words, these physical realities continue to exist.
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I don't know if this qualifies for no nuance November, but it's a point I really want to make.
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Now, while individuals such as myself having confidence in the people we are and the bodies we inhabit is not a proven contributor to obesity.
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In fact, it's shown that self-confidence can help you make more positive behavioral changes.
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Fat shaming, on the other hand, and yes, this includes health shaming, especially that of children and adolescents, is proven to cause further weight gain.
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And yes, is recognized as a contributor to obesity.
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What I'm getting to, you tiresome trolls, is that you, in fact, are the ones promoting obesity.
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This is a really confusing one because there's this lady who's making the fatphobia points.
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And then there's another lady who's, like, cheering her on in the side of the video.
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And I didn't know if she was being ironic or something.
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Her argument here is a little different than the other one.
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The other ladies were saying it's really good to be super fat.
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That's, like, awesome and there's nothing wrong with that.
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This lady is saying it's wrong for you to say it's wrong to be super fat because you'll encourage people to be super fat, which is wrong.
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Because I at least, I get the argument, the main fatphobia argument is no standards whatsoever.
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Don't you dare tell anyone that they should put down the cupcake.
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The new version that this lady's putting out there is if you tell someone to put down the cupcake, they won't.
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And that's bad because people should put down the cupcake.
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So this one's actually making the kind of conservative point.
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But she's using this weird logic of saying if you encourage people to lose weight, they won't do it.
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You need to use reverse psychology or something.
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It's very similar to the people who say, you know, if you want abortion rates to go down, you need to have a lot of legal abortion.
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And then actually, when there's a lot of legal abortion, people have fewer abortions, which is just not true.
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But also, it's a kind of, you're giving away the game and you're saying, yeah, abortion is bad.
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And you're just kind of trying to agree with the basic argument of conservatives to advocate for your policy.
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This is much less persuasive than the other gals before.
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Weight loss is a privilege because it takes time and it takes money, which not everybody has access to.
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Now, do most people have the time to fit some kind of exercise into their day?
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Yes, it doesn't take long to go on a quick walk.
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And when I was a server, I walked all day at work.
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But in some instances, if you are very low income, it can be very hard to lose weight.
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You work maybe three or four jobs on your way home.
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You don't have time to cook, so you pick up fast food.
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And then once you get home, you have to attend to your five children.
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And all the money that you made during that day has to go to them.
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So you have no time to go on a walk, no money to get a gym membership.
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And you have to resort to fast food because that's all you can have time for.
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So if you really care about the health of fat people like you say that you do, here's some things that you can advocate for.
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She obviously, this woman's very happy, just like all these radicals, very, very happy.
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She says you need fancy gym membership to lose weight.
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You need, you know, a delivery service from Whole Foods.
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And there are different points in people's lives and they've got more discipline or less discipline.
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I'm not saying that you, but if you want to do that, she seems, she's saying it's a good thing to lose weight.
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She's saying we need to support obese people to lose weight.
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And we need to do that by, you know, paying for them to have free gym memberships and go to Whole Foods or whatever.
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But she's acknowledging this would be a better thing.
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Well, if you want to lose weight, you don't need all that fancy stuff.
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Fat people are denied jobs, proper medical care, health insurance.
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They don't have equal access to clothing, travel, many public spaces.
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Even the body mass index, the way that it discriminates against women, especially women of color, it was created for and based around white men.
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Like fat phobia is literally rooted in anti-blackness.
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How many times have you seen marketing campaigns that are labeled, get fat quick, finally add those stubborn 30 pounds?
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Show me where all the weight gain industries are.
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Show me all the damaging messages that say that skinny equals unworthy life or skinny equals ugly.
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When is the last time that you've been penalized financially when an aircraft seat had to be accommodated to your smaller body?
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When is the last time you've walked into a doctor's office and after they weighed you, stopped listening to what you were actually there for and told you to just gain weight because it will fix everything?
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Skinny people do not face employment discrimination or medical discrimination.
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Eat a burger is just not comparable to systemic abuse and oppression.
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So everybody's got to be able to claim some kind of oppression, whether you're fat or whether you're skinny.
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And by the way, you know, she's saying the skinny phobia or something.
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I mean, that is a real, if you're anorexic or bulimic, that is a real, you can be committed to a hospital against your will if you're too thin, as well you should be.
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So, you know, there are issues there, but it's not oppression.
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It's not oppression when a lady goes into the doctor's office and the doctor says you really have to lose some weight.
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That's what you're there, that's what you're paying for.
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But we're told now that to face reality or to face a truth is oppressive and hurtful.
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I guess it's just because people can't, they can't make sense of their own suffering.
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I know that everyone thinks that straight white men just never suffer, right?
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They're all just like rich uncle penny bags and they've never had a problem in their life.
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And if you can't work on that and cultivate virtue and, you know, endure it with patience, that's on you.
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We're all doing it and patience is a virtue, believe it or not.
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And whining and babbling on TikTok is not a virtue, it's a vice.
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Do we have any more or have we gone through the phobias?
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The most persuasive argument, I guess, was either in the first couple or this last one.
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The other ones, they said, yeah, it's good to lose weight, but it's not good to, you know,
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but it's bad to tell me to lose weight and whatever.
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But these were relatively coherent within their framework.
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And the other one was, I'm suffering, I'm oppressed, I'm this, I'm that.
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And that is the most basic level of the radical left argument that you could possibly make.
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And we're told, you know, look, if people are happy this way, if we're really happy,
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