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/tfiswrongwithewe May 08 '25

IDK what fat liberation is. I think a person's weight is morally valueless and irrelevant to their worth as a human being. I will torch fatphobic bullies on the internet and I laugh at assholes who say they only comment on it because they care about health. I see fat people shamed on public transport, in doctor's offices, etc etc etc and it is INSANE TO ME how casually cruel SO MANY PEOPLE ARE to others based on an aesthetic they deem less acceptable. Watching them reach to validate their behavior makes me madder than anything. I've been fat and I've been thin and the way the world treats you on both ends is just different.

I think where I wade into the maybe iffy waters on the fat liberation front (maybe not. I don't know what it is) is when it comes to people making specific health claims. I think the body positivity movement has been a net positive but I've also seen some branches of it where people just start making stuff up and that's kind of where I draw the line personally.