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The racist origins of fat phobia

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

Health as a Concept, Is Not Something That Should Be Reclaimed

The idea that being fat is inherently unhealthy derives from slavery too. And so seng as though anti fatness as ideology is developed through the making of the slave, through the making or the creation of slavery. The medical industry also creates entire mental and physical disabilities to sort of justify harming the slave for trying to revolt riisan attempt to quell any sort of sense of revolution within or amongst the slaves. You can be an otherwise quod healthy person, and you can still be labelled as quodn obese when walk into a douchtor's office because body mass index (BMI) is something that's derived from french and scottish simen which black folks have never looked

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