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NYC Council Votes to Ban Weight Discrimination
New York Post ^ | May 12, 2023 | Olivia Land

Posted on 05/12/2023 10:08:49 AM PDT by nickcarraway

New York City lawmakers approved a bill to ban weight discrimination this week, making the city the largest municipality in the country to ban anti-fat bias.

The proposal passed the New York City Council by a vote of 44-5 on Thursday, The Hill reported. The approved legislation will amend the city’s administrative code to make perceived and actual weight and height discrimination illegal in employment, public accommodations, and housing.

The move was spearheaded by Democratic Councilmember Shaun Abreu, who said he was alerted to the need for “changing culture” around weight after he gained 40 pounds during lockdown. “Just recently someone who I considered to be a friend came up to me and touched my stomach and said, ‘we’re getting bigger there buddy.’ And it just speaks to the toxic culture that exists in the United States when it comes to people that are above their average peers weight,” he said of the

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To: No name given

450 pound firefighters and 600 pound lieutenants, no more getting rescued, sleep at your own risk in your own bed.


21 posted on 05/12/2023 10:34:23 AM PDT by Colt1851Navy (What was wrong with Nixon?)
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To: Glad2bnuts

he’s not even that fat. Sounds like somebody needs to call a waahmbulance for him.


22 posted on 05/12/2023 10:36:22 AM PDT by ronniesgal (friends don't let friends be Kardashians)
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To: nickcarraway

Put down the slurpee you stinky fat pigs. Lazy pieces of garbage...go for a damn walk ya beluga.


23 posted on 05/12/2023 10:36:42 AM PDT by toddausauras (Trump Lake 2024....Go down swinging!)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie
Yes it was necessary. I’m paid by Big Flour.

Ha!

24 posted on 05/12/2023 10:39:12 AM PDT by llevrok (Pronouns: Me/myself/& I)
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To: nickcarraway

Wow. In a city where innocent people are being attacked without provocation and being thrown under trains, is this a priority? Really?


25 posted on 05/12/2023 10:39:33 AM PDT by Spok (“Winston, how many fingers am I holding up?”)
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To: nickcarraway

Or a 90 pound, 4’-5” woman?


26 posted on 05/12/2023 10:39:43 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (I don’t like to think before I say something...I want to be just as surprised as everyone else…)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

A lot of good night time fun in all those rolls.....


27 posted on 05/12/2023 10:40:19 AM PDT by llevrok (Pronouns: Me/myself/& I)
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To: nickcarraway

It’s good to see them focusing on the important things. Victor Hanson always says when they cannot tackle or fix the big things, they focus on the tiny inconsequential crap...and this is “Exhibit A.”


28 posted on 05/12/2023 10:41:01 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (I don’t like to think before I say something...I want to be just as surprised as everyone else…)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

Big Flour?

I can see that. It might take 25 pounds of flour to find that wet spot.


29 posted on 05/12/2023 10:41:42 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Donald Trump is a setting sun. Ron DeSantis is a rising star.)
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To: nickcarraway

Whale, cow are you.
Just about every “norm” is being turned upside down.
Destruction of western society.
End of the republic: 05/12/23!


30 posted on 05/12/2023 10:41:50 AM PDT by 9422WMR
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To: nickcarraway

Look at pics and home movies from the 50s and 60s - you seldom see a fast person. Then go to Walmart.


31 posted on 05/12/2023 10:41:59 AM PDT by bigbob (Q)
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To: nickcarraway

Look at pics and home movies from the 50s and 60s - you seldom see a fast person. Then go to Walmart.


32 posted on 05/12/2023 10:42:12 AM PDT by bigbob (Q)
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To: napscoordinator

You’re behind the times, Naps. They will reduce the physical requirements and dumb down the tests. Then do it again. And again. Just like the military.

Physical Tests are racist, sexist, and fatist.


33 posted on 05/12/2023 10:43:28 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (I don’t like to think before I say something...I want to be just as surprised as everyone else…)
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To: nickcarraway

“The move was spearheaded by Democratic Councilmember Shaun Abreu, who said he was alerted to the need for “changing culture” around weight after he gained 40 pounds during lockdown. “Just recently someone who I considered to be a friend came up to me and touched my stomach and said, ‘we’re getting bigger there buddy.’ And it just speaks to the toxic culture that exists in the United States when it comes to people that are above their average peers weight,”

So a FRIEND, speaks the truth lightheartedly to you, and your response is we need another law?

There is absolutely no hope for liberals


34 posted on 05/12/2023 10:45:43 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: SpaceBar

We now see the spectacle of anorexic-shaming, becoming the “new normal”.


35 posted on 05/12/2023 10:58:38 AM PDT by alloysteel (Fiction has to be at least plausible, while reality obeys no such constraint.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Eye bleach will not matter, you cannot now unsee that image.


36 posted on 05/12/2023 11:00:54 AM PDT by alloysteel (Fiction has to be at least plausible, while reality obeys no such constraint.)
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To: No name given

Them Ratchets fighting at Popeye’s can now be police, firefighters and such.


37 posted on 05/12/2023 11:05:13 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again," )
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To: nickcarraway
“Are there gaps in this bill? For sure. But I think it’s the perfect first step,” she said of the city’s new legislation.

There's no gaps when she's standing there. It reads like this is really about "people of size" not liking to be reminded of their volume.

38 posted on 05/12/2023 11:07:21 AM PDT by FoxInSocks ("Hope is not a course of action." — M. O'Neal, USMC)
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To: HamiltonJay

We had a Democrat congresswoman who was pushing a bill to force kids to wear a bike helmet because she couldn’t get her young daughter to wear one.


39 posted on 05/12/2023 11:16:05 AM PDT by alternatives?
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To: Responsibility2nd
And the high-fruitose corn syrup spin-off of gasohol
40 posted on 05/12/2023 11:17:45 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again," )
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