New York City enacts law barring discrimination based on weight

The Post Millennial ^ | November 27, 2023 | Libby Emmons

[Twotone]

New York City just enacted a law banning discrimination against height or weight. Mayor Eric Adams, who just slashed the city's budget by 5 percent across the board, signed the bill in the spring. This means that in addition to other protected characteristics like age, gender, race, or religion, a person's weight and height will also be considered protected identifiers under the law.

The law will bring fat discrimination under the jurisdiction of New York's Commission on Human Rights. This is the body that heads up discrimination issues for other identifiers and characteristics, such as LGBTQ, race, etc. Commissioner Annabel Palma said, at the time the bill was signed, that "Most forms of appearance-based discrimination have persisted unchecked."

The bill was sponsored by city councilman Shaun Abreu, who was inspired to propose the bill after gaining weight during the pandemic and noticing that people didn't treat him the same as when he weighed less. With a law like this in place, he believes that it will dissuade employers from discriminating against fat people.

"It's also about changing the culture in how we think about weight," he said. Lawmakers in Albany are considering bringing a law that mirrors the one in the Big Apple.

[Recovering_Democrat]

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ohhhh let’s watch this one play out

[ABStrauss]

600-pound policepersons? It probably doesn’t matter if they’re wheelchair bond as long as it is powered.

Christie could be chief of police.

[I want the USA back]

The intention is to create a new, privileged protected class that can get anyone fired, arrested or canceled. They now will be able to officially shed the blame for their failures and cast it upon anyone they dislike.

We’ve seen what happened with other protected classes and how they blame their failures on other people.

[JonPreston]

[hanamizu]

600-pound policepersons? It probably doesn’t matter if they’re wheelchair bound as long as it is powered.

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Why not? It’s important to have a police force that ‘looks like the community it serves’. Diversity is our strength!
/s

[KobraKai]

Ralph Kramden was always paranoid about getting fired for being too fat to drive a bus!

[lepton]

Are they actually discriminating based upon weight?

Or volume with accompanying lack of fitness?

[dayglored]

Somebody needs to tell that model about her top, specifically the part behind her shoulder blades.

Showing front-boob? Great.

Side-boob? Nice.

Under-boob? Sweet.

But back-boob? Not so much.

[Kaiser8408a]

So fat police officers are OK??

[READINABLUESTATE]

That’s it! No more free mustache rides.

[RedMonqey]

How about fat fire fighters? They lowered standards for women so why not for the morbidly obese ?

[Deepeasttx]

I guess reruns of the old You Bet Your Life with Groucho Marx will now be banned! He never held back on letting an overweight lady receive it.

[Jeff Chandler]

a law that mirrors the one in the Big Apple

If they had more mirrors, perhaps they would be shamed into healthier behaviors.

[NorthMountain]

a person's weight and height will also be considered protected identifiers under the law.

Perfectly suited to being a New York Police Officer.

[xp38]

More horizontal than vertical but at least reality comes to the team name a bit.

[Vaduz]

I pity the man that wakes up next to that.

[Vaduz]

Liberalism Law

Discrimination = Anything You Don’t Like

Including stepping into dog droppings

[cgbg]

Fat fire fighters are my favorite.

Climbing ladders and going into burning buildings with full gear is difficult and dangerous for anyone—for fat people it is Russian roulette.

[TexasFreeper2009]

LMAO

I hate liberals.