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Case-building: Making Fatties the Deviants
In every good moral panic one needs a deviant group on which to blame the ills of the current moral (financial, political) crisis. Since moral panics seek to fix some broken part of society, it makes … more →
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Case-building: Making Fatties the Deviants
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bigliberty wrote 3 weeks ago: In every good moral panic one needs a deviant group on which to blame the ills of the current moral … more →
When Other People Pay For It, They Can Claim the Right to Control It
bigliberty wrote 1 month ago: I’ve said this several times before, but it bears repeating: when other people can make a reas … more →
Government Healthcare is Bad for Fat People
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bigliberty wrote 1 month ago: Why? Read the links on this page. While employers can currently establish plans that incentivize wei … more →
Will Chris Christie's Fat Frankness Turn the Tide?
bigliberty wrote 1 month ago: Chris Christie, Republican candidate for New Jersey governor, has been at the center of a controvers … more →
Quick Hit: Mika Brzezinski Thinks Americans too Fat, Answer - Higher Taxes
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bigliberty wrote 1 month ago: Here’s a quick hit (h/t NewsBusters.org): Food Fight: MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski Advocates … more →
STUDY: About those middle age fat chicks
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bigliberty wrote 2 months ago: There has been released recently a widely pressed study — another Nurse’s data dredge … more →
Washington Journal - Highlighting "costs" of obese existence
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bigliberty wrote 4 months ago: My husband and I like to watch C-SPAN’s Washington Journal on weekend mornings (yep, we’ … more →
No Fat People in Concentration Camps
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bigliberty wrote 6 months ago: Oh, how many times us fat activists have seen trotted out this tired platitude: “Don’t y … more →
Another One Takes the Cut
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anniemcphee wrote 6 months ago: I debated a bit whether to post this, but decided to. When I started this particular job some year … more →
Not Sorry for MeMe Roth
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bigliberty wrote 6 months ago: If you’ve been reading about the recent irrational statements by MeMe Roth like I have, you ar … more →
Eliminate Fat People?
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bigliberty wrote 10 months ago: I’ve always been a bit of logician, even when I was a kid. When I got older and began taking c … more →
Son of Porkulus
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anniemcphee wrote 10 months ago: The news contained in this post is so horrifying that I’m going to put up some extremely cute … more →
This is what a press release looks like.
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bigliberty wrote 10 months ago: This is taken from the Google news search: “adenovirus obesity study.” This, this, is wh … more →
The Tide of Hate Rises
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bigliberty wrote 11 months ago: This has been a particularly acerbic media week, hasn’t it? From the report that a couple in Y … more →
When Your Body is No Longer Yours
bigliberty wrote 11 months ago: Many civil rights activists agree: your body, you business. If you’re not hurting anyone else, … more →
Obesity Tax proposed in New York
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bigliberty wrote 1 year ago: Governor Paterson proposes ‘Obesity Tax,’ a tax on non-diet sodas Continuing in the them … more →
Creating a deviant class: "There's something wrong with you"
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bigliberty wrote 1 year ago: What are the ingredients of a deviant class? First of all, there has to be an easy marker of devianc … more →
I know this is cross-posting, but it's worth it.
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bigliberty wrote 1 year ago: Here’s richie79’s reply in this the thread “The Fat Police Are Coming” over … more →
Moral Panics, Moral Crusades, and the Obesity Folk Devil
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bigliberty wrote 1 year ago: I’m currently doing research into moral panics and moral crusades, partly because they’r … more →
