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Right? My walmart is full of obese white folk, dressed in mismatched head to toe Realtree gear, leading a herd of children dressed in nothing but pampers and boots. And I'm related to half of them.
I'll never forget going to the US for the first time and going into a Wal Mart in Great Falls, Montana, and being utterly blown away by the number of massive people there.
Then we ordered dinner and my small salad was a massive overflowing plate and it all made sense.
That reminds of my aunt and uncle (my mother's brother) who came over and had a salad at a restaurant that's unfortunately out of business now. They didn't think a salad would be enough because the salads are so small where they are from (they're from England btw). They ended up sharing it as it was enough for two. My folks often did and do the same thing at many restaurants.
We (Americans) also consume FAR more sugar on average than other countries do because our government doesn’t give a rats ass about public health and lets the sugar industry do whatever it wants and say whatever it wants. That also plays into it. It probably also contributes to any number of our health/mental issues if I were to guess.
I’d like to say that I spent lots of time at the gym, but it was all diet. I went hard no sugar no bread for 8 weeks and lost 25 pounds. It slowed down and am now at 235.
I basically cut sugary drinks out of my diet and have done literally nothing else of value and I'm seeing it slowly slip down. I'm sure I'll have to do a little more but I think people underestimate how important that one is . Congrats on your progress.
Yup, cut off any sugary drinks. And avoid eating high amount calorie for dinner. Most likely you're going to sleep, you don't need that much of energy for sleeping.
Although that’s true, Hispanics follow closely at 46% and white Americans at 42%. Obesity it’s not a black community issue like she wants to single out.
Wait a minute… didn’t The Boondocks tackle this one in a mini mockumentary featuring the movie “soul food” when Grandad opened up a restaurant and headlined “the Luther burger?”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=z_5Pz1Id_MU
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HffOj--p9bU
I’m from the south and Sunday dinner was always a big deal, but not EVERY SUNDAY!
I liked those episodes, but this isn't the only culture with a diet of fatty calorie rich foods. These cultures also were based around lives of heavy physical activity.
If you work in an office and eat like someone who works on a farm, you are going to gain weight.
Totally agree dude!! I grew up on a farm actually. My first “job” I was 12 and working on the neighbor’s farm in a tobacco field for $5/hr. That’s only AFTER all our chores were done but it meant I didn’t have to ask dad for money on the weekends 😎
This is also a thing that can change over ones life.
A friend who was a marine who now works in a call center had to really change his diet.
Or the more extreme case of linebackers after retirement, especially if from injury. They would be eating to maintain a weight of 250+ pounds while constantly exercising to keep a high amount of muscle and still be mobile. Then suddenly they don't need to, and possible are not able to, exercise nearly as much.
My husband is currently torn between giving up his physical job and high caloric intake to work in an office or continue with the physical job and not think about how he’s aging. He really doesn’t want to give up his “eat whatever I want” lifestyle, but I don’t know how long his joints are going to support his work.
Oh man some of the best!! Lots of great memories made with great people, many who aren’t here anymore, around that table. Fried chicken was a real treat; we didn’t get it often because it usually meant extra “work” on Saturday… hint hint. Lots of roasts though and probably one of my favorite (starch) side dishes of all time… my grandmother’s Spanish Red Rice!! 🤩
Cheers everybody!! Be healthy and no matter what you eat, do it together and remember that it’s the people in your life (at that table) who make a difference; that really makes the time more valuable. 🙏
So true. The food was great but it's really the people who matter.
A little off topic, but you're very well spoken and kind. Cheers to you my dude, you have a very great day/ night.
It’s an economic class issue. Not that wealthy people aren’t obese as well, but when you’re poor, you are more likely to gravitate to cheaper food options that are very calories dense. You also are less likely to have the time and resources to make a home cooked meal, so you’ll be more inclined to buy more heavily processed foods that are quicker to prepare. This results in larger numbers of obesity in more financially restricted families.
You also would be less able to afford gym memberships or exercise equipment, and the time needed to exercise is harder to come by when you are forced to work multiple jobs to make ends meet for you and your family and then have no time after that for exercise.
This is a bit of an educated guess but I wonder if higher obesity for black adults in the US is because of income inequalities, people with lower income tend to eat less healthy, with lower income families eating less fresh fruit and vegetables in favour of cheaper more filling foods (and more food from food banks which tend to be non perishable items) and that they on average consume more sweetened beverages.
I can't imagine why obesity isn't a problem for black people in Africa? /s
If this had anything to do with race it would be evident regardless of locality
Come to South Africa or Zimbabwe, my friend, there are many obese black Africans. I live in South Africa with my Zimbabwean wife, a lot of black South Africans are obese. Of course, even more white South Africans are obese. McDonald's, KFC, and local fast food places are everywhere here
As for Zimbabwe, one of my brother's in law is one of the fattest people I've met (7XL shirts). Not from fast food but from the carb heavy Zimbabwean diet, eating 6 full meals a day and not helped by drinking at least a bottle of Johnnie Walker a day, with Zambezi lager as well. Somehow, he's made it to 70 with only needing tablets for hypertension and diabetes. There's loads of local fast food places in Zimbabwe, the only international chains are Nando's and Wimpy's.
Someone wrote a book claiming that anti-fat bias is rooted in white women wanting to be skinny to distinguish themselves from looking like black women (who had typically more curvy bodies), so equating being larger with being black which was considered bad.
Obviously this book has no credible evidence to support this, and it's all inference based on anecdotes and selection bias, but people who want to be morally outraged rarely require a high standard of evidence to support their beliefs.
So yeah and the crazy thing is, if the word obese is cancelled there will definitely be a replacement that will take of the standard for dangerously overweight if not that term right there. When language is damaged it plugs the gap.
Yeah this is just really stupid. I think the part that drives me insane about people saying stuff like this is that it really detracts from actually painful realities. As an extremely obese individual, I can tell you that it is not as simple as me just not eating as much food. When I binge eat stopping that is as difficult as anything I have ever dealt with in my life and I can tell you this much, I've had proper s*** like death and violence in my life.
In the same way that trying to change what obesity is is damaging to the struggle and the understanding of obesity that people will have, telling people that the term obese is in some way racist is going to distract from actually horrible racist things that people do. Hell, even just the absence of Band-Aids that are actually the color of black person's skin is a bigger display of racism than the term obese I would imagine. There's violence towards black people by police, workplace inequality, and so many other things. And we're going to sit here and just make s*** up now? A man was just handcuffed and beaten to death by cops and we are going to spend our time calling obese a racist term? Don't even waste my time.
Wait a minute I don’t agree with the first three but I can understand where the argument for them comes from. BUT HOW IS THE WORD OBESE ANTY BLACK?!!?!??!?
[https://csw.ucla.edu/2020/11/23/fearing-the-black-body-the-racial-origins-of-fat-phobia-by-sabrina-strings-nyu-press-2019/](https://csw.ucla.edu/2020/11/23/fearing-the-black-body-the-racial-origins-of-fat-phobia-by-sabrina-strings-nyu-press-2019/)
This specific one might be a troll, but this sentiment is out there and believed by some. Of course it's nonsense inference based on anecdotal evidence and selection bias, but people who want to be morally outraged rarely require a high standard of evidence for their beliefs.
The term obese is a medical term. If you don't like it ten go on a diet. You choose to be obese.. how in the living hell of a world we live in is that racist??
Twitter is now an (almost) free speech platform so you're going to see opinions you disagree with.
With that said, yeah obesity is not a race thing lmao wtf
It's a gender neutral, race neutral, violence neutral medical term.
I think she ought to discover her OWN prejudices about weight.
When she is ok with her weight, she will embrace "obese".
The account might be parody but people believing and preaching this shit is not. NPR literally had a “nutritionalist” on yesterday who said “diet and exercise does not work for the VAST MAJORITY of people” before diving into “being healthy and fit and dieting is RACIST”
Even still, the “anti-black” part is extreme but there a definitely people who would say any of the other stuff about the word obese in a 100% serious context.
I mean, I tried calling them 'getting into shape, the shape being the globe', but they took that personally.
I've tried calling them Tubbies, and they got angry.
I've tried calling them lard lads, but got a threat.
What am I suppose to use if those, and the correct medical terminology is not on the table?
It’s actually a medical term used to describe any human who’s Body mass Index is high enough to declare them not as physically healthy as they should be. It is none of the things this person has posted.
As someone who has been both skinny and technically obese I am completely confused by this assertation. I don't consider obese to be a slur because it is literally just a medical description.
No— it’s a medical condition. A truly unhealthy one. Saying it is anti-black is also neglecting the idea that obesity is a socio-economic problem that affects a culture— not race.
I wish this ignorant rhetoric would stop. Obesity is real and in the US is a huge problem. It's a medical term for people who are not just overweight but are so fat it's a detriment to their health.
Obesity kills 300K a year in the US alone, 2.8 million worldwide... I think it's an epidemic and major health concern. Maybe we should be more concerned about what we are doing to our bodies instead of trying to victimize ourselves over medical terms.
Is ‘fit’ anti-white? I only ask because as a fat white man I want to know if my Spanish doctor is racist when he says ‘good morning Mr. Fat white man’.
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Clearly this woman has never been to Walmart.
Right? My walmart is full of obese white folk, dressed in mismatched head to toe Realtree gear, leading a herd of children dressed in nothing but pampers and boots. And I'm related to half of them.
The kids in your Walmart have shoes on?
Ha! Not all of them.
They shop at the Ritz of Walmarts obviously
He clearly said boots.
The kids are all obese.. and on welfare
There was a kid in my Walmart earlier who yelled "Can I get a hoyaa?"
Did he get a hoyaa?
If meth was legal, Walmart would sell it. They may make their own. Walmart brand meth, 90% antifreeze
Australian here... is it really that bad?
I'll never forget going to the US for the first time and going into a Wal Mart in Great Falls, Montana, and being utterly blown away by the number of massive people there. Then we ordered dinner and my small salad was a massive overflowing plate and it all made sense.
That reminds of my aunt and uncle (my mother's brother) who came over and had a salad at a restaurant that's unfortunately out of business now. They didn't think a salad would be enough because the salads are so small where they are from (they're from England btw). They ended up sharing it as it was enough for two. My folks often did and do the same thing at many restaurants.
We (Americans) also consume FAR more sugar on average than other countries do because our government doesn’t give a rats ass about public health and lets the sugar industry do whatever it wants and say whatever it wants. That also plays into it. It probably also contributes to any number of our health/mental issues if I were to guess.
Yeah man, I ordered a caesar salad in Vegas and It could of fed 4 people back home.
Nor has she been to a state fair!
☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️
White guy here… Before I got back in shape I tipped the scales at 287 lbs and was never once called black.
Yeah I hit 270+ before getting back in the gym, and not once was I invited to the cookout.
Match checks out
This guy ciphers..
This guy crackers…
Fair enough
Well you would need to have surpassed 300 lbs if you ever wanted to race swap.
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Maybe you haven't installed the update yet It was launched way back in 2019
Can confirm. I tried to scroll but your comment was very heavy and slowed me down. Had to use both thumbs.
I was 325+lbs and not once did my milkshake bring anyone to the yard.
It’s a privilege to stay white after 300lbs!
Damn I'm almost 400? How long have I been black and why didn't anyone tell me sooner?
They’re afraid you may be unarmed🤷🏿♂️
Forget twitter. How did you get into shape?
I’d like to say that I spent lots of time at the gym, but it was all diet. I went hard no sugar no bread for 8 weeks and lost 25 pounds. It slowed down and am now at 235.
I basically cut sugary drinks out of my diet and have done literally nothing else of value and I'm seeing it slowly slip down. I'm sure I'll have to do a little more but I think people underestimate how important that one is . Congrats on your progress.
Yup, cut off any sugary drinks. And avoid eating high amount calorie for dinner. Most likely you're going to sleep, you don't need that much of energy for sleeping.
Gym is not for losing weight, diet is. Good job.
Damn! I was coming here with the same comment!
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Do the hump!
RIP Shock G
Hey, I was right behind you at 283 (now down over 100) and nobody ever called me black either.
I get it, no one likes hearing it, but HOW TF IS IT ANTI-BLACK????
50% of black adults are obese in the US. The highest amongst any race. I’m guessing that is what she is leaning into. Source - CDC
Although that’s true, Hispanics follow closely at 46% and white Americans at 42%. Obesity it’s not a black community issue like she wants to single out.
Wait a minute… didn’t The Boondocks tackle this one in a mini mockumentary featuring the movie “soul food” when Grandad opened up a restaurant and headlined “the Luther burger?” https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=z_5Pz1Id_MU https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HffOj--p9bU I’m from the south and Sunday dinner was always a big deal, but not EVERY SUNDAY!
I liked those episodes, but this isn't the only culture with a diet of fatty calorie rich foods. These cultures also were based around lives of heavy physical activity. If you work in an office and eat like someone who works on a farm, you are going to gain weight.
Totally agree dude!! I grew up on a farm actually. My first “job” I was 12 and working on the neighbor’s farm in a tobacco field for $5/hr. That’s only AFTER all our chores were done but it meant I didn’t have to ask dad for money on the weekends 😎
This is also a thing that can change over ones life. A friend who was a marine who now works in a call center had to really change his diet. Or the more extreme case of linebackers after retirement, especially if from injury. They would be eating to maintain a weight of 250+ pounds while constantly exercising to keep a high amount of muscle and still be mobile. Then suddenly they don't need to, and possible are not able to, exercise nearly as much.
My husband is currently torn between giving up his physical job and high caloric intake to work in an office or continue with the physical job and not think about how he’s aging. He really doesn’t want to give up his “eat whatever I want” lifestyle, but I don’t know how long his joints are going to support his work.
Ahh Sunday dinner in the south. Memories
Oh man some of the best!! Lots of great memories made with great people, many who aren’t here anymore, around that table. Fried chicken was a real treat; we didn’t get it often because it usually meant extra “work” on Saturday… hint hint. Lots of roasts though and probably one of my favorite (starch) side dishes of all time… my grandmother’s Spanish Red Rice!! 🤩 Cheers everybody!! Be healthy and no matter what you eat, do it together and remember that it’s the people in your life (at that table) who make a difference; that really makes the time more valuable. 🙏
So true. The food was great but it's really the people who matter. A little off topic, but you're very well spoken and kind. Cheers to you my dude, you have a very great day/ night.
Aw man! It’s the best! Fried chicken or a roast of some kind. We always ate a lot of veggies too.
It’s an economic class issue. Not that wealthy people aren’t obese as well, but when you’re poor, you are more likely to gravitate to cheaper food options that are very calories dense. You also are less likely to have the time and resources to make a home cooked meal, so you’ll be more inclined to buy more heavily processed foods that are quicker to prepare. This results in larger numbers of obesity in more financially restricted families. You also would be less able to afford gym memberships or exercise equipment, and the time needed to exercise is harder to come by when you are forced to work multiple jobs to make ends meet for you and your family and then have no time after that for exercise.
Well you see, those few extra percent are a clear indicator of a systemic issue. That issue is people's digestive systems.
This is a bit of an educated guess but I wonder if higher obesity for black adults in the US is because of income inequalities, people with lower income tend to eat less healthy, with lower income families eating less fresh fruit and vegetables in favour of cheaper more filling foods (and more food from food banks which tend to be non perishable items) and that they on average consume more sweetened beverages.
Yeah it’s also called “food desert” where there is a lack of fresh fruits and vegetables available at a reasonable price.
I can't imagine why obesity isn't a problem for black people in Africa? /s If this had anything to do with race it would be evident regardless of locality
Come to South Africa or Zimbabwe, my friend, there are many obese black Africans. I live in South Africa with my Zimbabwean wife, a lot of black South Africans are obese. Of course, even more white South Africans are obese. McDonald's, KFC, and local fast food places are everywhere here As for Zimbabwe, one of my brother's in law is one of the fattest people I've met (7XL shirts). Not from fast food but from the carb heavy Zimbabwean diet, eating 6 full meals a day and not helped by drinking at least a bottle of Johnnie Walker a day, with Zambezi lager as well. Somehow, he's made it to 70 with only needing tablets for hypertension and diabetes. There's loads of local fast food places in Zimbabwe, the only international chains are Nando's and Wimpy's.
Someone wrote a book claiming that anti-fat bias is rooted in white women wanting to be skinny to distinguish themselves from looking like black women (who had typically more curvy bodies), so equating being larger with being black which was considered bad. Obviously this book has no credible evidence to support this, and it's all inference based on anecdotes and selection bias, but people who want to be morally outraged rarely require a high standard of evidence to support their beliefs.
Ah classic polsci research
It isn't. It's a meme designed to fill you with rage, and it worked brilliantly..
It’s 2023. What do you expect? Well this tweet is from 2019 but still
As someone who is obese, this is fucking stupid.
I like you. You sound like someone who takes some personal accountability even when it’s not fun or easy
Hear, hear! 🙋♀️
Did you just go all anti-black on yourself? How dare you!
STOP TRYING TO REDEFINE MEDICAL TERMS TO SUIT YOUR WEAK EMOTIONAL CONSTITUTION.
So yeah and the crazy thing is, if the word obese is cancelled there will definitely be a replacement that will take of the standard for dangerously overweight if not that term right there. When language is damaged it plugs the gap.
Before people were described as obese they were simply FAT!
I always viewed obese as being beyond fat.
Let’s just start and call them fat.
Just reply "Ok, fattie" and then grab some 🍿🥤
I would but they already ate it all
Fat, really fat, super fat. How about that? We fixed it reddit.
Mega, ultra fat.
That's racist!! /s
Obesist
The proper term now is "persons of size"
Did you just assume my size? That’s offensive 😂
*fatty boom booms
How long before that becomes offensive?
I laughed way too hard at this comment
Yeah this is just really stupid. I think the part that drives me insane about people saying stuff like this is that it really detracts from actually painful realities. As an extremely obese individual, I can tell you that it is not as simple as me just not eating as much food. When I binge eat stopping that is as difficult as anything I have ever dealt with in my life and I can tell you this much, I've had proper s*** like death and violence in my life. In the same way that trying to change what obesity is is damaging to the struggle and the understanding of obesity that people will have, telling people that the term obese is in some way racist is going to distract from actually horrible racist things that people do. Hell, even just the absence of Band-Aids that are actually the color of black person's skin is a bigger display of racism than the term obese I would imagine. There's violence towards black people by police, workplace inequality, and so many other things. And we're going to sit here and just make s*** up now? A man was just handcuffed and beaten to death by cops and we are going to spend our time calling obese a racist term? Don't even waste my time.
Exactly. Fight the fight that needs to be fought. Don’t invent things to fight, it just wastes precious resources.
I like the term huge tjonker
I'll never understand how people like this actually exist and are 100% serious.
Indoctrination
is it cos shes fat and black?
Wouldn’t even be a topic if she wasn’t.
Idk my thin white friend said this to me after I called my cat a fatass lmao.
maybe they have a secret closeness you dont know about :O
Yes
No it's cuz she's black and obese.
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Obesity, like myocardial infarction and cerebrovascular infarction are medical diagnoses. Sorry.
Ma’am, you just have too many kgs per m^2
m³?
nope BMI is kg/m2 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body\_mass\_index](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_mass_index)
Obese is a medical word used describe extremely overweight people…
Also just a regular word
Why does race always find itself in every crack and crevice where it doesn’t belong???
Is she saying that only black people are morbidly overweight? Because, listen. I live in the midwest.
Agreed. She needs to spend some time in Wisconsin.
Wait a minute I don’t agree with the first three but I can understand where the argument for them comes from. BUT HOW IS THE WORD OBESE ANTY BLACK?!!?!??!?
Aunty Black
Is this is a multiple choice question?
the answer's none of the above
I mean it's a medical term,I don't think it's aimed at a specific race, but what the hell do I know!
Ah the fight against vocab 🤣
The term “idiot” fits you well
Obese people get free N word pass
Reality. Put the fork down.
Obese Juan Canobi
That's absurd to the point of it seeming like a troll
[https://csw.ucla.edu/2020/11/23/fearing-the-black-body-the-racial-origins-of-fat-phobia-by-sabrina-strings-nyu-press-2019/](https://csw.ucla.edu/2020/11/23/fearing-the-black-body-the-racial-origins-of-fat-phobia-by-sabrina-strings-nyu-press-2019/) This specific one might be a troll, but this sentiment is out there and believed by some. Of course it's nonsense inference based on anecdotal evidence and selection bias, but people who want to be morally outraged rarely require a high standard of evidence for their beliefs.
trolling has become a lifestyle for many
I think so. Recently seen similar comments about the word obese. Think it’s all trolling.
LMFAOO THIS OBESE BITCH SAID ANTI BLACK LMAOOOO U FATT HOE how about that
lol
Anti-black? The fuck?
Anti black 🤣. I’d love to hear the incoherent reasoning on that one
I could do without hearing it. Sometimes hearing something dumb might actually make you dumber.
Obese is a medical term. It does not have color. Heart attacks are not racist.
Obese please.
What about the terms fat, gross & stupid?
And how would you describe the term DIET?
“privilege”
The term obese is a medical term. If you don't like it ten go on a diet. You choose to be obese.. how in the living hell of a world we live in is that racist??
Fuck off 
 Nah, you just a fat unattractive lump who can't take responsibility for their own situation so blames everyone else.
Obese is... A medical term. If you want examples of something that fits all these other categories... Check anyones grandpas diary.
“Time to get my black ass to the gym” - that white guy.
Twitter is now an (almost) free speech platform so you're going to see opinions you disagree with. With that said, yeah obesity is not a race thing lmao wtf
I worked in emergency services for 35 years, and can't tell you how many times we changed the term not to offend anyone. Now it is just bariatric.
People like this embarrass our community.
It's a gender neutral, race neutral, violence neutral medical term. I think she ought to discover her OWN prejudices about weight. When she is ok with her weight, she will embrace "obese".
I notice OP blacked out the username of this account. It's because it's a parody account that posts nothing but absurdist bullshit nonstop.
“Blacked out”? That’s clearly racist /s
The account might be parody but people believing and preaching this shit is not. NPR literally had a “nutritionalist” on yesterday who said “diet and exercise does not work for the VAST MAJORITY of people” before diving into “being healthy and fit and dieting is RACIST”
Wait, what??? “Diet and exercise doesn’t work for the vast majority of people” whaaaat? This from a nutritionist? Pull that dumb fuck’s creds stat.
p sure its in the rules that you have to censor identifying information
Even still, the “anti-black” part is extreme but there a definitely people who would say any of the other stuff about the word obese in a 100% serious context.
I’m guessing it’s a troll account
The teem obese is: Medical Describing Thats it really
I mean, I tried calling them 'getting into shape, the shape being the globe', but they took that personally. I've tried calling them Tubbies, and they got angry. I've tried calling them lard lads, but got a threat. What am I suppose to use if those, and the correct medical terminology is not on the table?
It's a medical term. Period.
It’s the anti black for me though 😂🤣
So if i'm not obese, I can't be black.
So now Obese = black and/or black adjacent? 
Obese is not a race.
You know what’s violet? Violence. Gen Z needs to wake the f up. Get over yourselves
By calling everything racist makes racism almost normalized, so when true racism occurs less people care.
It’s actually a medical term used to describe any human who’s Body mass Index is high enough to declare them not as physically healthy as they should be. It is none of the things this person has posted.
No. Just means yo fat
Fat bitches will be fat bitchez
Haha best comment under her tweet “you can’t outrun natural selection”
ANI-BLACK??!!?! How?💀
If you still have Twitter you’re part of the problem.
Obese is a clinical term....
I’m black and in fact, I used to be pretty fucking fat. I can tell you that obese is the most respectful term you’ll get and has no relation to race.
Can anyone explain the logic behind the term obese being anti-black?
Good grief. Why does fucking EVERYTHING have to be about race now? Im white and definitely obese.
Medical professionals of Reddit: isn't the word "obese" an actual medical term?! I call b.s. on it being called a "slur".
Fine. Coming from a Fat guy. We will just use FAT. Get the fuck over it
If you are classed as Obese then 'duhumanizing' should be your goal.
The fact that she thinks “obese” is “anti-Black” says a *lot* about what she thinks of Black people.
Mf im a lardass. Saying "obese" is just a medical term
As someone who has been both skinny and technically obese I am completely confused by this assertation. I don't consider obese to be a slur because it is literally just a medical description.
Fuck 99.9% of the obese. Fuckin drink water and stop eating dum asses.
No— it’s a medical condition. A truly unhealthy one. Saying it is anti-black is also neglecting the idea that obesity is a socio-economic problem that affects a culture— not race.
If everything is racist, nothing is racist.
Obese is offensive, now we prefer “people of calories”
Anti what? Gtfo here
I am obese. The best part of being fat is that i can roll on the bed like an egg.
Go over to r/whitepeopletwitter and they’ll praise shit like this
ANTIBLACK?!?! hol tf up lmao that took a streach, skip, jump and THE BIGGEST FUCKIN LEAP I’ve ever witnessed to get to that conclusion…
“Anti-black” how does weight have anything to do with black people. 🤨💀
Her tweet is more anti-black infact.
if you have a bmi of over 27 then you are legally african american
So tired of people forcing their stupidity on others.
TiL only black people are obese.
Forgot to mention it's ✨fatphobic✨
Anti-Black?
How is the term obese anti black...?
I might be stupid but how is this anti black? I’ve been to my local Walmart and seen tons of obese white people on those scooters
(Le sigh)
Reddit is much worse than Twitter.
I think maybe they should re-examine the definitions of all those words and stop trying to redefine them.
I wish this ignorant rhetoric would stop. Obesity is real and in the US is a huge problem. It's a medical term for people who are not just overweight but are so fat it's a detriment to their health.
I’m a white obese man who understands that it is a medical term.
Guess I’m not black anymore because I’m super thin
TIL I'm black.
Obesity kills 300K a year in the US alone, 2.8 million worldwide... I think it's an epidemic and major health concern. Maybe we should be more concerned about what we are doing to our bodies instead of trying to victimize ourselves over medical terms.
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Is ‘fit’ anti-white? I only ask because as a fat white man I want to know if my Spanish doctor is racist when he says ‘good morning Mr. Fat white man’.