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I love how mostly liberal(and good) viewpoints about the badness of body shaming go out the window when it comes to their enemies. Whether it was about his wei

I love how mostly liberal(and good) viewpoints about the badness of body shaming go out the window when it comes to their enemies. Whether it was about his weight, or penis or hand size. Heck, there was even a popular statue made of a nude trump with a micropenis which people were lining up to have their picture taken with.

teachrdan 4y ago
This is a false equivalence. The reason people make fun of Trump for being ugly is because he himself mocks others based on their appearance -- particularly women. This is akin to queer activists in the 80s outing closeted gay Republicans who were advocating for anti-gay laws. Turnabout is fair play. If Trump doesn't want people to make fun of him for his physical qualities, he shouldn't do the same for others. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/16/us/politics/trump-women-insults.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/16/us/politics/trump-women-i... https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/08/donald-trump-protester-weight-problem https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/08/donald-trump-protest...
- throw009 4y ago
  If you think that decency is a human right and not a privilege to be given out only the the worthy then you're a hypocrite for treating people the way they treat others. If on the other hand you think that special grounds deserve special rights then go ahead. I have an apartheid to sell you though.
- googlryas 4y ago
  I've never heard "body shaming is bad unless you're body shaming a body shamer". It misses the point in that there is collateral damage for body shaming as well - if you mock trump's weight because he is a bad person, you're still implying "fat=bad" to every good fat person out there too. So am I allowed to mock those liberals physical qualities now, since they mocked trump for mocking someone's physical qualities? If they don't want to be mocked they shouldn't do the same to others.

teachrdan 4y ago

This is a false equivalence. The reason people make fun of Trump for being ugly is because he himself mocks others based on their appearance -- particularly women. This is akin to queer activists in the 80s outing closeted gay Republicans who were advocating for anti-gay laws. Turnabout is fair play. If Trump doesn't want people to make fun of him for his physical qualities, he shouldn't do the same for others. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/16/us/politics/trump-women-insults.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/16/us/politics/trump-women-i... https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/08/donald-trump-protester-weight-problem https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/08/donald-trump-protest...

throw009 4y ago
If you think that decency is a human right and not a privilege to be given out only the the worthy then you're a hypocrite for treating people the way they treat others. If on the other hand you think that special grounds deserve special rights then go ahead. I have an apartheid to sell you though.
googlryas 4y ago
I've never heard "body shaming is bad unless you're body shaming a body shamer". It misses the point in that there is collateral damage for body shaming as well - if you mock trump's weight because he is a bad person, you're still implying "fat=bad" to every good fat person out there too. So am I allowed to mock those liberals physical qualities now, since they mocked trump for mocking someone's physical qualities? If they don't want to be mocked they shouldn't do the same to others.