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The racist origins of fat phobia

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

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Is Aunti Fadness Fundamentally Anti Blackness?

I think this idea that aunti fadnes fundamentally is anti blackness, is really fascinating anda something that might be new to a lot of people coming to your book. Talk more about that idea and about where does aunti fAdness from? Where does it have its historical roots? Yes, so althorout history, there have been tons of different thoughts and feelings and experiences with regard to fatness,. And you can find places in history where it was thought to be derogatory. But anti fatness as a concept doesn't become a coherent ideology until white europeans, white slave owners, start to witness what fatness looks like on slaves, on african bodies

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