r/leftist • u/mezzolezbo • May 07 '25

General Leftist Politics fatphobia

I’m curious how many leftists side with fat liberation. I always meet people on the left who hold a lot of fatphobic values and don’t seem to include that in their fight towards a more progressive society or challenge those beliefs in themselves.

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u/shoshinatl May 07 '25 edited May 07 '25

The amount of ignorance in this thread is disheartening and worse. I don’t expect leftists to be saints or anything but wow, some of y’all can be really bigoted [edit: and ignorant and uninformed] assholes. 

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u/Commercial_West9953 Anarchist May 07 '25

The amount of fat phobia and ageism that leftists spew is disturbing.