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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Maybe enough fat people will move there looking for jobs that NYC will finally sink to the center of the Earth and spare the rest of the nation their stupidity and arrogance.
This is what you get when you have a one party government with no opposition and the news media is your lap dog.
BEYOND DISGUSTING
Probably wants a job as a UPS driver.
Finally those fat people on all those reality shows about the morbidly obese will be able to get jobs!
Poor health discriminates against obesity. Why is it that the woke mob incessantly ignores science?
Why are these people encouraging the most unhealthy diet in the universe-and pretending it is all okay? What will the employers do when half their workers are on oxygen and an insulin drip-at a desk littered with bags of McDonald’s crap and Twinkie wrappers? Denial is not just a river in Egypt...
-PJ
Hope she has someone to wipe her @$$ for her...she sure can’t reach it around all that fat!
Is there another gang of losers who can make laws that affect normal people? Every lazy, sick, fat, mental patient idiot has some law that says they are normal. We live in the twilight zone. Go get a reality show and stfu. Literally. If you stfu you can’t cram Doritos down your oversized gullet.
The ‘plan’ to take over the schools has already happened. Your schools are being run by perverts and the kids have already been taught to hate their country.
The commercials with homos and fatsos all pushing drugs so they can continue to exercise and flaunt their lack of self control are nonstop. 3/4 of the commercials consist of listening to the side affects, which always include death.
You all called them lard asses. But now they have their pimp hand strong. They will be throwing their weight around with fat discrimination lawsuits. Lizo style!
😍 LOL
At one time Free Republic used to focus upon wholesome, family oriented and decent post material.
When that actually was true, I can’t remember.
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You’re right. I shouldn’t have posted that remark. It pushed the decency boundaries a little too far.
But that’s what I do. I’m a rebel.
I’ll leave it to the moderator to decide whether or not to delete post 29.
Does this mean Bloomberg’s drink size limit is illegal?
I know.
Look at pics and home movies from the 50s and 60s - you seldom see a fast person. Then go to Walmart.
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I’m elderly and walk with the aid of a cane or walker, I’m not over weight and never have been, I used to enjoy doing my own grocery shopping but now my daughter does it for me. I got tired of going to W-M and finding no electric cart available as they were all being used by the morbidly obese.
Yes, I could buy my own electric cart but then I’d have to buy a vehicle to transport it in. Too expensive for the likes of me.
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