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Fat-shaming columnist gets booted from Fergus Falls newspaper
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| February 20, 2017 — 9:31pm
| By John Reinan
Posted on 02/21/2017 6:35:22 AM PST by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger
There’s nothing worse than skinny people being offended by proxy in the name of how they feel others feel.
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posted on
02/21/2017 6:40:37 AM PST
by
Rurudyne
(Standup Philosopher)
To: Red Badger
He wrote it.
They published it.
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posted on
02/21/2017 6:41:36 AM PST
by
Celerity
To: Celerity
Yes, they fired him for their decision................
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posted on
02/21/2017 6:43:59 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(If "Majority Rule" was so important in South Africa, why isn't it that way here?.......)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
02/21/2017 6:44:19 AM PST
by
simpson96
To: Red Badger
A Virtue Signaling Posse.
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posted on
02/21/2017 6:45:17 AM PST
by
Paladin2
(No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
To: Red Badger
To: Red Badger
"Not only did this offend many of our readers, it offended us,"Then why did the morons publish it?
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posted on
02/21/2017 7:00:21 AM PST
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: Red Badger
Stupid writer writes stupid article. Which they published.
So, why don’t they just let him answer the phone and deal with the complaints for a day, and then counsel him to be a bit nicer in future?
Why do they have to make a big show of sacking him? Can’t he just write a mea culpa column and get on with it?
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posted on
02/21/2017 7:01:46 AM PST
by
marron
To: Red Badger
Last night my son told me that the average weight of American women has just reached the average weight of American men in the 1960’s (160#). He stated that the current “body acceptance “ trend is killing women as obesity is very unhealthy.
The reaction to what was supposed to be a humorous piece just proves that people have no sense of humor anymore.
To: TexasGator
He should be fired.
Not for the fat comments.
For making fun of the way we talk...............
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posted on
02/21/2017 7:02:17 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(If "Majority Rule" was so important in South Africa, why isn't it that way here?.......)
To: Red Badger
Sounds like a great opportunity for selling ads for pie and cake stores. Not so muck for fitness centers.
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posted on
02/21/2017 7:02:42 AM PST
by
FatherofFive
(Islam is EVIL and needs to be eradicated)
To: Red Badger
The article struck me as more an observation on the fact that the other passenger spoke Jaw-juhn than his size.
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posted on
02/21/2017 7:03:54 AM PST
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: DuncanWaring
They fired him for their mistake. Now they feel better about themselves. That's how liberalism works..................
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posted on
02/21/2017 7:04:32 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(If "Majority Rule" was so important in South Africa, why isn't it that way here?.......)
To: Red Badger
So I just read the article-he was poking fun at southerners more that he was at fat people. No one jumped to the defense of those who speak with a southern accent.
To: marron; NorthstarMom
They fired him for their mistake. Now they feel better about themselves. That's how liberalism works..................
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posted on
02/21/2017 7:06:24 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(If "Majority Rule" was so important in South Africa, why isn't it that way here?.......)
To: Red Badger
Fat shaming is a very POSITIVE thing to do. Fat is dangerous and ugly. It’s as bad as telling an anorexic person that she looks great.
To: Red Badger
OK, I broke tradition and actually read the article.
I still say, the guy wrote for them for 30 years and they fire him for one silly article? Really? And he was an unpaid columnist, they never paid him in all that time... and they fired him?
Self-righteous prigs.
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posted on
02/21/2017 7:06:48 AM PST
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marron
To: NorthstarMom
We, as a group, are not a protected class.
Since about 1865 or so..............
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posted on
02/21/2017 7:07:23 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(If "Majority Rule" was so important in South Africa, why isn't it that way here?.......)
To: Red Badger
People are too fat these days. Some can’t help it but most can.
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posted on
02/21/2017 7:09:33 AM PST
by
Crucial
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