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‘Fat Activist’ Speaks at Public Health School, Denounces ‘Thin Privilege’
http://heatst.com/culture-wars/fat-activist-speaks-to-university-of-minnesota-school-of-public-health/ ^
Posted on 05/11/2016 7:41:09 AM PDT by neuroworld
The University of Minnesotas School of Public Health was a lot less healthy this week.
In celebration of International No Diet Day, the school of public health, together with the University of Minnesotas School of Social Work and its College of Food and Agriculture, invited Virgie Tovar, a self-proclaimed fat activist, to instruct Americas future nutritionists, dietitians and social workers on the finer points of fat oppression.
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TOPICS: Education; Food; Health/Medicine; Society
KEYWORDS: trigglypuff
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To: neuroworld
Newbie FAIL award for 5-11-16 goes to.......
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posted on
05/11/2016 7:45:54 AM PDT
by
Delta 21
(Patiently waiting for the jack booted kick at my door.)
To: neuroworld
This is the opening wedge. Before we know it, obesity will be a protected category and we will have fat people quotas for the gymnastics, track, soccer, and other sports teams. Football will not have much of a problem ....
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posted on
05/11/2016 7:46:31 AM PDT
by
sphinx
To: neuroworld
It’s amazing how many people are completely detached from reality. Unhinged, really.
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posted on
05/11/2016 7:51:44 AM PDT
by
grimalkin
(Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. - Winston Churchill)
To: neuroworld
They’re always inventing new grievance groups. Unbelievable.
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posted on
05/11/2016 7:52:48 AM PDT
by
fwdude
(If we keep insisting on the lesser of two evils, that is exactly what they will give us from now on.)
To: neuroworld
Introducing the speaker for:
International No Diet Day
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posted on
05/11/2016 7:54:06 AM PDT
by
TheShaz
To: neuroworld
“Sorry dude, your dysfunction isn’t my privilege”
To: neuroworld
Virgie Tovar has a blog “Lose Hate not Weight”.
She’s part of a women’s movement whose members expect entitlement to be loved.
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posted on
05/11/2016 7:55:42 AM PDT
by
PapaBear3625
(Big government is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
To: neuroworld
Odd that we never see thin fat activists.
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posted on
05/11/2016 7:57:44 AM PDT
by
onedoug
To: neuroworld
Yet a tiny group of men wearing dresses is dictating federal policy.
To: PapaBear3625
Ever notice that women are permitted to only like fit guys, but guys who admit only liking fit/thin woman are evil?
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posted on
05/11/2016 8:17:19 AM PDT
by
MeanWestTexan
(Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
To: MeanWestTexan
“Virgie Tovar, a self-proclaimed fat activist, to instruct Americas future nutritionists, dietitians and social workers on the finer points of fat oppression.
Stay fat, stay stupid; we don’t care. Just don’t pretend to be oppressed!
Go to the drive-thru and wallow in your misery. (Waddle)in your misery?
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posted on
05/11/2016 8:27:46 AM PDT
by
heterosupremacist
("Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God." Thomas Jefferson)
To: neuroworld
Why are the mentally ill given such a forum? This fat slob needs “counseling”.
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posted on
05/11/2016 8:28:51 AM PDT
by
hal ogen
(First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
To: neuroworld
What about ‘smart” privilege or “tall” privilege or “pretty” privilege?
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posted on
05/11/2016 8:29:58 AM PDT
by
aquila48
To: TheShaz
Put the fattie in pig pen # 5...
To: neuroworld
I just signed up to be a fat do at to painfully thin people. I have the ability to turn chocolate cake into fat - a superpower- and now I know I can help others. 😀
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posted on
05/11/2016 8:33:34 AM PDT
by
aMorePerfectUnion
(BREAKING.... Vulgarian Resistance begins attack on the GOPe Death Star.....)
To: neuroworld
When you glorify victimhood, you get many more proud victims demanding that their plight be shared.
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posted on
05/11/2016 8:34:01 AM PDT
by
Teacher317
(We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
To: aMorePerfectUnion
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posted on
05/11/2016 8:34:32 AM PDT
by
aMorePerfectUnion
(BREAKING.... Vulgarian Resistance begins attack on the GOPe Death Star.....)
To: onedoug
***Odd that we never see thin fat activists.***
That is because the are behind the fat ones.
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posted on
05/11/2016 8:36:29 AM PDT
by
ThomasThomas
(Fools find no pleasure in understanding but delight in airing their own opinions.)
To: neuroworld
Are they going to need their own bathroom, too?
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posted on
05/11/2016 8:36:54 AM PDT
by
MrsEmmaPeel
(a government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take everything you have)
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