Re: Are you prejudiced against fat people?
good and others,
"Negative in what way?"
I think my reaction could be accurately described as something like "ugh, what is wrong w/ you, how can you be like that?"
As I said, that's just a negative bias I hold. If they turn out to be good, smart, nice people, I have no problem being their friend or whatever. I just start out by default feeling somewhat negative towards them until I have information to make me feel otherwise.
More specifically, let's take this example. I have two resumes that look similar in terms of backgrounds, experience, etc. I walk into the room where they are waiting and I find:
a black guy and a white guy - I won't hold a preference towards either
a short guy and a tall guy - Again, no preference
a fat guy and an in shape guy - Not having anything to do with health insurance costs or sick days or any specific things having to do with health, I will have an innate bias against the fat guy in a sort of "I'd prefer having the other guy around than the fat guy" way.
This of course assumes that neither of the resumes has an obviously Jewish last name.
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