Y’all Qaeda

Slavery still affects many people today. Here is a link to many examples worth looking into.

Judging by my other comment, Lemmy is definitely going to have a fat people hate sub.

This isn’t related to the article, but I wanted to pick at the ‘benefits of slavery’ question.

I think it’s important to acknowledge the ‘benefits’ of slavery, because it’s important to remember who it benefitted and at who’s expense. To claim that it benefits no one would be to deny the greed and callousness that spawned these human rights abuses.

Slavery in the past has brought massive advantages and benefits to many people today through the accumulation of intergenerational wealth, at the expense of minorities who are still systematically denied access to this wealth. To claim that these benefits don’t exist would be to diminish the scale of issues slavery has brought, and is still bringing, to modern day.

Sure, it’s her fault for making a scene about being weighed.

But when it comes to stigmatizing weight, fat shaming, and creating an environment where fat people feel humanized, many of which are fat because of medical conditions and not the other way around, suddenly it’s no one’s fault.

Not saying that she was in the right, because I don’t think she is at all. I’m saying that the rest of us need to get off our high horses and look at how we treat fat people to begin with.

Edit: Read the sentence in bold again. Christ the fatphobia on Lemmy is real. Hope this triggers enough people to kick start a fat people hate community.