Re: Are you prejudiced against fat people?
Smiley,
That is pretty close to how I feel. The thing is, all you have to do is replace "fat" with "black" in your paragraph and maybe "unhealthy" with something like "dumb" or "violent" and it becomes pretty much exactly what a lot of racists would say and it would make me think much less of you. Yet, the way your statement stands, it's pretty much how I feel.
I am very strongly opposed to just about every other form of prejudice I can think of except for this one. Not sure what to make of that. Of course, everyone will say "but this one is something people can control" which of course is part of the equation here, but I don't think it's quite that simple to dismiss or all that different, really.
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