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The racist origins of fat phobia

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

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Is Bigger Body Size Being Used as Justification for Our Murders?

The ways that fatness, particularly as it relates to black folks, is pathologized in the ways that it's therefore used as justification for our murders. And so there's a long history of black kids, black fat cas in particular, being adultified,. but also the ways that our sort of relationship to size and fatness is often used as justificationfor these murders.

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