TRUMP GOT COVID

ban seems way harsh imo...body shaming is obv. ugly but we can get there by discouraging it...and as endlessly debated a valid argument can be made in table-turning e.g. on the body-shamer In Chief

personally I'm not clear on where to draw the lines btw Hitler's ball/Trump's corset/and somebody as relentlessly cruel as Christie's obesity

it suffices to lambast the cruelty in these cases, the body-shaming is spurious and prurient

imo there are so many other ways to talk about people you don't like, potentially millions

bodyshaming is usually a bellwether for other shitty behavior, imo

I'm going on the assumption that burrito doesn't even dislike Christie, just wanted to be transgressive here. One hallmark of the Minor Troll. (AC 11, HP 8, speed 30, etc)

Permitting or excusing body-shaming drives people away from ILX, and attracts bullies.

Please don't call the president crazy since it could offend actual paranoid schizophrenics.

this but unironically

bodyshaming is usually a bellwether for other shitty behavior, imo

Please choose better words to use instead of making light of people with digestive ailments.

https://empirenews.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/soiled.jpg

And whatever you do, please do not make light of the photo above.

is it ok to shame people for living in arkansas

Absolutely.

what if it was just you

for real though shaming people for their behavior is always a better way to go

How about thoughts and beliefs?

Pointing out that Chris Christie is a fat fuck and got sick after flouting COVID-19 guidelines is absolutely fair.

I don't see what's so hard to understand

It's making his fatness part of your overall hatred for him. It's making being fat a hateable characteristic.

I occasionally forget about the "right to be fat" thread and think ilx is full of progressive people who hate such singling out. It sometimes lasts weeks instead of days so maybe that's progress.

bodyshaming is usually a bellwether for other shitty behavior, imo

this wasn't aimed at anyone, btw - i didn't scroll upthread to see the posts that were being referenced

onimo otm i feel like people are just being purposefully mean

I mean, of course they are. This is the same deal when (White) people chomp at the bit to throw dubious racial insults at Candace Owens

onimo otm i feel like people are just being purposefully mean

They should just go back to wishing people were dead or crippled by infirmity but leave out the (dead) body-shaming. That's mean.

They should just go back to wishing people were dead or crippled by infirmity but leave out the (dead) body-shaming. That's mean.

Wishing ill on powerful, bad people is valid, if unsavoury. Calling people out as fat fucks on a board that fat people read is an insensitive dick move.

Permitting or excusing body-shaming drives people away from ILX, and attracts bullies.

Whereas threads full of people wishing someone was dead is like a warm comforting embrace.

no one reading this message board is dead

some ghosts lurk

Neither are the people you lot are wishing were dead. That's how the wishing thing works.

Wishing ill on powerful, bad people is valid, if unsavoury. Calling people out as fat fucks on a board that fat people read is an insensitive dick move.

Yeah, this is really not that complicated a distinction!

get back out there champ

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Tuesday: Johnstown, Pennsylvania
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— Jenn Pellegrino OAN 🇺🇸 (@JennPellegrino) October 10, 2020

I don't understand what's so hard to grasp about this. Body-shaming insults have a collateral impact on people who didn't do anything wrong. Wishing death on someone doesn't involve stigmatizing a general characteristic in the same way.

even the "Orange Man Bad" shit, cringe as it is, we can at least pretty safely assume there isn't a contingent of orange ILXors cringing through that shit out of personal affront

the humble cheeto is my favorite food.........

Will Trump walk out in PA to "Highway Patrolman"?

I have some sympathy with jon via cheeto and think it would be best if everyone just let go.

― Stop Gerrying Me! (onimo), Friday, 11 January 2013 18:45 (seven years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Sorry

feel like insulting/bodyshaming/wishing death on Fellow Message Board Posters is probably grounds for a ban from a Message Board, but insulting/bodyshaming/wishing death on public figures who aren't afawk Fellow Message Board Posters is probably not. but thank you for your protective hypervigilance W.M.C.

heard a sick remix of highway patrolman last year fwiw

i think it was in a HAAi set

Mitch McConnell resembles a turtle.

Being reported that Trump was scheduled to speak for 30 minutes, but ended at 17. When was the last time Mr. Babble McStamina went *under* his allotted time?

If it’s not ok to direct racial slurs at black republicans it’s not ok to call Chris Christie a “tub of lard” this is extremely basic stuff what is wrong with you

this isn't about whether or not it's "ok" to call Chris a fat tub of lard. it's about whether or not I should be removed from the community for it.

it's not "ok" to laugh at someone for having a disease either. do we really need to have this conversation

https://hbr.org/2018/05/tips-for-reading-the-room-before-a-meeting-or-presentation

I flagged that post so yes xp

so, calling a politician a fat tub of lard is a worse and more bannable offense than celebrating the news that they've contracted a potentially fatal disease? do I have that right?

Sure. “I hope bad things happen to this person because they are a Republican” seems fine to me. There’s even a strong utilitarian argument for it in this case.

Not sure how to compare that to a non sequitur about someone’s weight.

I'm not in favor of calling out people for being fat, even heinous ones like Christie, but burrito does kind of have a point there

I don't hate Chris Christie. He's a funny, charming, likeable dude. I don't agree with his policies, but he pours bags of M&Ms into larger bags of M&Ms at baseball games, and that is adorable. I don't want Chris Christie to get sick or die. But the truth is, he's a fat tub of lard, and the phrase "fat tub of lard" is funny to me so I use it once every few years when talking about people like Chris Christie who wobble around in their little suits vindictively ordering unnecessary bridge lane closures.

xp I'm not "in favor of it" either, but I did it.

engaging in bodyshaming inherently insults people other than the people you imagine you're targeting, and it contributes to a shitty, fatshaming culture that causes real psychological and medical harm. it's bad, and it's also bad for this board.

also, fwiw, i have been exposed to a fair amount of fat activism for a non-fat person, and i have never seen anyone carve out a "well, if they're turning the tables on a bad person, then that's okay" exception.

wow burrito you need to stfu

“I hope bad things happen to this person because they are a Republican” seems fine to me

I disagree that it's "fine" to hope bad things happen to anyone, but because I'm a tolerant and open-minded person, I won't fp you for it.