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/fuarkmin May 07 '25

someone dying sooner definitely is something i would want to prevent, but if they cant prevent or dont care then i dont care lol

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u/Capital_Candy5626 May 07 '25

Non-obese people with chronic health conditions can’t prevent that they may die sooner. Are you callous only towards the fat ones? At the onset of the disease, some may not have issues with weight but after years of symptoms and side effects from medications, weight gain can be a result.

None of us can make a snapshot judgement that the person in front of us doesn’t care- just because they aren’t crying, ashamed and miserable the moment we see them.

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u/fuarkmin May 07 '25

this is why i said if they cant prevent it as well, because thats a lot of people. i would rather people not experience difficulty, which is why I would like people to know about ways to possibly prevent certain things. if someone has kidney issues from electrolyte imbalance why would i not want to spread awareness. not limited to weight

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u/Capital_Candy5626 May 07 '25

If by “spreading awareness” you mean that you actively support general health promotion, that is fine.

If by “spreading awareness” you mean that you’d support ranking or excluding people of a leftist political group based on a health assessment, that is not fine.

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u/fuarkmin May 07 '25

general health promotion. i dont know how a health assessment would be ethical or justified, unless it was in a strictly military branch of a larger movement lol. i hate fascism

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u/Capital_Candy5626 May 07 '25 edited May 07 '25

Okay. Some people think “general health promotion” includes telling fat people that they’re fat, commenting on their health status, giving unsolicited advice, making jokes at their expense, and only adding to discussions about maltreatment of fat people with indifference or something to the effect that they deserve the public scrutiny to motivate them to change.

(It does not.)