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Colleges Now Have ‘Fat Studies’ Courses and Groups Fighting ‘Weightism’ and ‘Fatphobia’
National Review ^ | January 12, 2016 | Katherine Timpf

Posted on 01/13/2016 8:11:51 AM PST by C19fan

College campuses nationwide are treating fat people as a new protected class, launching “fat studies” courses that teach that being fat isn’t unhealthy and awareness groups that fight so-called “fatphobia” and “weightism.” Yes — “fatphobia” and “weightism” are apparently things now. And it’s apparently a big (sorry) deal.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: college; education; studies
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My alma mater made the list. That is why I have never given a dime to the school.
1 posted on 01/13/2016 8:11:52 AM PST by C19fan
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More courses for students who can’t do college-level work.


2 posted on 01/13/2016 8:12:40 AM PST by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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Within five years: smoking-studies for a degree, baldness studies, redneck studies, trailer trash studies, harlot studies, Gunsmoke studies, car driving studies, and Mountain Dew studies.


3 posted on 01/13/2016 8:14:38 AM PST by pepsionice
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I’m a fitness trainer, and I say...um....


4 posted on 01/13/2016 8:14:49 AM PST by freepertoo
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When I went to school one could ignore these BS Studies courses but the SJWs are now adding these courses as part of the requirements.


5 posted on 01/13/2016 8:16:17 AM PST by C19fan
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Interesting that the greatest health issue among the “poor” in America is.....obesity.


6 posted on 01/13/2016 8:17:07 AM PST by circlecity
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Just another bubble created by massive spending and debt


7 posted on 01/13/2016 8:17:19 AM PST by PGR88
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I’m a 5’6” white Christian male, when do I get my turn?...............................................still waitin’. lol


8 posted on 01/13/2016 8:17:57 AM PST by V_TWIN
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People who are fat need to do to things. 1. Stop eating so much. 2. train hard for the 1 mile race.


9 posted on 01/13/2016 8:18:05 AM PST by WENDLE (Trump is not bought . He is no puppet.)
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That’ll really help them get a job.


10 posted on 01/13/2016 8:18:50 AM PST by beethovenfan (Islam is a cancer on civilization.)
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I’m a fitness trainer, and I say...um...< br/>
Oooohhh, you're one of them judgmental 'conversion therapists.'
11 posted on 01/13/2016 8:19:24 AM PST by posterchild
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I guarantee when we get socialized medicine and people are going to be forced to pay for the fatties’ medical treatment, those attitudes will change.


12 posted on 01/13/2016 8:19:35 AM PST by dfwgator
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When I went to school one could ignore these BS Studies courses but the SJWs are now adding these courses as part of the requirements.

I got through engineering school and only had to take two: "macroeconomics" and political science.

Both were absolute nonsense.

I got a C in political science, which I took first.

Then I wised up, learned how to "puke back" memorized BS that made no sense, and got an A in "macro."

The thing I remember about that class was the pseudo-mathematics the TA constantly spouted.

He used mathematics like the cargo-cult people used the wooden headphones they carved.

13 posted on 01/13/2016 8:19:42 AM PST by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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This is the kind of crap that makes tuition rates skyrocket.

If they weren’t being subsidized you’d see all these bs identity studies programs either away.


14 posted on 01/13/2016 8:19:52 AM PST by Shadow44
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To: circlecity

You can’t slim down when you live in a ‘food desert.’


15 posted on 01/13/2016 8:20:44 AM PST by posterchild
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What do you think obama care does now?


16 posted on 01/13/2016 8:20:49 AM PST by WENDLE (Trump is not bought . He is no puppet.)
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The fat acceptance movement is the only movement that’s name is the solution to the reason they are the way the are. No one see’s the irony?


17 posted on 01/13/2016 8:22:08 AM PST by IllumiNaughtyByNature (Trump/Cruz 2016 or the other way around.)
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You ain’t seen nothing yet.


18 posted on 01/13/2016 8:22:14 AM PST by dfwgator
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“Interesting that the greatest health issue among the “poor” in America is.....obesity.”

Fast food is much cheaper than healthy food when eating out.

Healthy meals prepared at home can be had for less than the cost of McDonald’s, but it requires preparation and forethought.

Fat and lazy go together now more than ever.


19 posted on 01/13/2016 8:24:16 AM PST by ConservativeWarrior (Fall down 7 times, stand up 8. - Japanese proverb)
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Perhaps they can make a hot chick turning down a fat dude as serious a charge as rape


20 posted on 01/13/2016 8:24:30 AM PST by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%)
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