Sometimes the jokes just write themselves.

  • Hank@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Nah I think people should be more comfortable with a little mocking. Just because people won’t speak it out loud doesn’t mean you’re not discriminated against and I’m worried censoring the expression of natural thoughts on that topic will cause discrimination to fester in a more subtle way.
    The only people I won’t make fun of are those I genuinely feel pity for and except of very very very few exceptions fat people are in a position to change their fate and patronizing them isn’t doing them any favors.

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      1 year ago

      You’re saying we should be blatantly discriminatory to prevent subtle discrimination? How does that make any sense? It’s like saying people with racist thought should just say them instead of shutting up. Or an better example: should we make fun of visibly disabled people? I’m sure plenty of people have “natural thoughts” when they see someone like that, but you shouldn’t say anything because that’d be a horrible thing to do.

      Again, most overweight people know they’re overweight. They are already affected by it in their daily lives. They don’t need you to be a dick about it.

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        1 year ago

        It circles back to that fat people have the autonomy to change their shortcomings.
        But the thought about blind people getting bullied into gaining vision your argumentation put in my head is pretty entertaining.

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          1 year ago

          So we should bully everyone about anything they have autonomy over? I should bully people for not filtering their water because it’s unhealthy? I should bully people for having a car because it’s bad for the environment?

          I mean it’s not discrimination but it’s definitely just a dick thing to do. You mentioned haircuts earlier - if someone gets a haircut they like you shouldn’t make fun of them for it. They chose to get the haircut. They know how it looks. They know what people think of that style of haircut. Chosing to laugh at them for that isn’t doing anything and is just rude.

          If you disagree with that I don’t think I have anything else to say. We just have completely different views.

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            1 year ago

            Well it’s you who basically comes back to repeat the same talking points over and over. And I was saying it’s ok to make fun of fat people that you kinda escalated into bullying. You’re strawmanning and all your arguments are just whataboutism. I should’ve shot that down earlier but you seem very polite.