[ACC25047]

I don't know about in New Zealand, but here in the US there is a small but vocal group that aims for what they call 'Fat Acceptance.' They claim discrimination and have pretensions that what happens to them is somehow a civil rights issue. To me, that is as ridiculous as arguing that we should accept alcoholics as they are instead of trying to change them. And very obese people are doing as much damage to their health as an alcoholic or other drug addicts. I certainly don't agree with being abusive to someone, name calling and so on. But calling someone 'fatso' is hardly discrimination. No one was ever lynched for being fat. No one was put on a reservation, deported, beaten by cops, had a cross burned on their lawn, or lost their relatives to concentration camps for being fat. To compare unkind words to discrimination is to trivialize what genuine victims of disrcimination went through and insult their memory. Even putting this question under 'Disabilities' is a bit disingenuous, when most obese people made a conscious choice to be that way. When people insult you, compare it to when people insult someone falling down drunk or passed out in public and ask yourself 'Does that person deserve this? What did they do to bring this on themselves?'

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Name : ACC25047, Gender : M, Race : Mexican and American Indian, City : Phoenix, State : AZ Country : United States, 

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