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LOL! I see what you did there. 😉

So I live in a more conservative area that wants to separate from Canada. While me personally I’ve never had to many bad run-ins with anyone right winged in real life, or at least not that I know of specifically. I’m fine with it as long as they don’t disrupt my personal peace if you know what I mean?

Of course the online world especially in social media where people do like to express their *truthful* thoughts out for everyone to see. All behind a screen and behind everyone’s back in the real world.

Alberta?

Yes that is correct I am from Alberta. While I’m not entirely on board with the separatist movement, I can understand why they’ve been so upset with the direction of how everything has been going.

I don’t think you’d find many conservative reactionary types giving HAES lectures or talking about systemic anti-fat biases, but I’m sure you could find a large number of overweight/obese people who just endure bigotry in docility to their “skinny moral betters” — “I might be fat but at least I know I am and don’t believe in HAES”

That said I dont think the vast majority really care about fat people outside of people who are just blatantly racist homophobic antisemitic anti-woman already, it’s more of a punchline.

And not that I’m a right winger or anything like that but the left is just as guilty of making fat people the butt of the joke as the right.

Sadly, the latter part is true. As a left-winged person I can confirm they are not 100% perfect. I can remember encountering a thread about the Washington school system in a Seattle subreddit and someone villainized special ed kids. Not related to politics per say but I thought disabled people were as important as other minorities in progressive folks' eyes.

Depends on the progressive folks in question. I gave up on my local Pride events because they’re not very accessible and nobody seems to care. A lot of people talk a big game, but the moment someone asks for accommodations or brings up accessibility, you see what they’re really made of. I have met some folks who were incredibly sweet and supportive, and I appreciate them a great deal. Most don’t want to be bothered with disability issues though.

Then you get conservatives talking about how the social safety net shouldn’t exist, and people like me should go begging to private charities for whatever scraps they see fit to bestow upon me. Or, you know, just go away and die quietly in a corner to save them a few cents on their taxes.

When it comes to fat and disability, nobody’s on our side except us and maybe our loved ones if we’re lucky.

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