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The stigma is fine. It's the bullying that's a problem. But recent efforts have been focused on blurring the lines here.
by psychphysic 4y ago
The stigma is fine. It's the bullying that's a problem.
But recent efforts have been focused on blurring the lines here.
- paulmd 4y agoThis is basically "heritage not hate" but for a socially-acceptable target. You're saying racist opinions and discourse are fine as long as you don't act racist. The stigma causes the hate, they're effectively the same thing (I used them interchangeably) and leads directly to adverse actions against those individuals. And as I said above - the argument generally shifts at that point to "it's good for them to be attacked, maybe it'll motivate them". Because again, it's just a socially-acceptable vector for hate. We've gradually run out of other forms like racism and sexism, for a while it was homophobia (and the argument was that was a choice too, so it was fine to attack), but we'll always have fat people. Stop attacking, hating, "stigmatizing", whatever you want to call it, based on traits. It's all "isms" and 50 years ago it is the same argument used to defend racism. Just be civil and treat people like human beings, it's not that complicated.