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‘Fat Activist’ Speaks at Public Health School, Denounces ‘Thin Privilege’
http://heatst.com/culture-wars/fat-activist-speaks-to-university-of-minnesota-school-of-public-health/ ^

Posted on 05/11/2016 7:41:09 AM PDT by neuroworld

The University of Minnesota’s School of Public Health was a lot less healthy this week.

In celebration of “International No Diet Day,” the school of public health, together with the University of Minnesota’s School of Social Work and its College of Food and Agriculture, invited Virgie Tovar, a self-proclaimed “fat activist,” to instruct America’s future nutritionists, dietitians and social workers on the finer points of “fat oppression.”

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TOPICS: Education; Food; Health/Medicine; Society
KEYWORDS: trigglypuff
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1 posted on 05/11/2016 7:41:09 AM PDT by neuroworld
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To: neuroworld

Newbie FAIL award for 5-11-16 goes to.......


2 posted on 05/11/2016 7:45:54 AM PDT by Delta 21 (Patiently waiting for the jack booted kick at my door.)
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To: neuroworld

This is the opening wedge. Before we know it, obesity will be a protected category and we will have fat people quotas for the gymnastics, track, soccer, and other sports teams. Football will not have much of a problem ....


3 posted on 05/11/2016 7:46:31 AM PDT by sphinx
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To: neuroworld

It’s amazing how many people are completely detached from reality. Unhinged, really.


4 posted on 05/11/2016 7:51:44 AM PDT by grimalkin (Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. - Winston Churchill)
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To: neuroworld

They’re always inventing new grievance groups. Unbelievable.


5 posted on 05/11/2016 7:52:48 AM PDT by fwdude (If we keep insisting on the lesser of two evils, that is exactly what they will give us from now on.)
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To: neuroworld

Introducing the speaker for:

International No Diet Day

 

6 posted on 05/11/2016 7:54:06 AM PDT by TheShaz
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To: neuroworld

“Sorry dude, your dysfunction isn’t my privilege”


7 posted on 05/11/2016 7:55:32 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: neuroworld

Virgie Tovar has a blog “Lose Hate not Weight”.

She’s part of a women’s movement whose members expect entitlement to be loved.


8 posted on 05/11/2016 7:55:42 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Big government is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
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To: neuroworld

Odd that we never see thin fat activists.


9 posted on 05/11/2016 7:57:44 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: neuroworld

Yet a tiny group of men wearing dresses is dictating federal policy.


10 posted on 05/11/2016 8:05:29 AM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: PapaBear3625

Ever notice that women are permitted to only like fit guys, but guys who admit only liking fit/thin woman are evil?


11 posted on 05/11/2016 8:17:19 AM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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“Virgie Tovar, a self-proclaimed “fat activist,” to instruct America’s future nutritionists, dietitians and social workers on the finer points of “fat oppression.”

Stay fat, stay stupid; we don’t care. Just don’t pretend to be oppressed!

Go to the drive-thru and wallow in your misery. (Waddle)in your misery?


12 posted on 05/11/2016 8:27:46 AM PDT by heterosupremacist ("Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God." Thomas Jefferson)
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To: neuroworld

Why are the mentally ill given such a forum? This fat slob needs “counseling”.


13 posted on 05/11/2016 8:28:51 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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To: neuroworld

What about ‘smart” privilege or “tall” privilege or “pretty” privilege?


14 posted on 05/11/2016 8:29:58 AM PDT by aquila48
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To: TheShaz

Put the fattie in pig pen # 5...


15 posted on 05/11/2016 8:33:28 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: neuroworld
I just signed up to be a fat do at to painfully thin people. I have the ability to turn chocolate cake into fat - a superpower- and now I know I can help others. 😀
16 posted on 05/11/2016 8:33:34 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (BREAKING.... Vulgarian Resistance begins attack on the GOPe Death Star.....)
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To: neuroworld

When you glorify victimhood, you get many more proud victims demanding that their plight be shared.


17 posted on 05/11/2016 8:34:01 AM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

Previous post:

Fat Donor


18 posted on 05/11/2016 8:34:32 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (BREAKING.... Vulgarian Resistance begins attack on the GOPe Death Star.....)
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To: onedoug

***Odd that we never see thin fat activists.***

That is because the are behind the fat ones.


19 posted on 05/11/2016 8:36:29 AM PDT by ThomasThomas (Fools find no pleasure in understanding but delight in airing their own opinions.)
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To: neuroworld

Are they going to need their own bathroom, too?


20 posted on 05/11/2016 8:36:54 AM PDT by MrsEmmaPeel (a government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take everything you have)
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