Opinion | Mike Daisey: 'Pelosi isn't a modern George Bernard Shaw, discovering the boring fact that people love to insult fat people by saying that we are fat. She's just exercising ritual bigotries' - NBCNewsTHINK
Pelosi knew this; she likely chose to insult Trump in this manner, anyway, because, like many thins, she does not care about fat people's feelings. If she is now being forced to reckon with the connections between her behavior and Trump's, she will probably tell herself that he is much worse and that, as many thins say ,"it's not like it's a real identity, being fat — if they just lost the weight, they wouldn't have the identity ...
She seemingly calculated that fat people are already self-hating and silenced enough in our culture that no one will make that much of a fuss and the devastating own will have been be worth it. She did the math instinctively — like an experienced politician; I'm sure she's right that it worked out for her. In December, Joe Biden
, fat-shaming a voter who had the audacity to ask him a perfectly reasonable question at a campaign stop. None of this is a surprise to my fellow fats: You wake up in the morning and you know what the world has been telling you every moment of your life.
And you thins are basking in the same hatred. For many of you, it manifests a fear of contagion — that you will catch weight from us. Others frame it as a kind of puritanism — fatness is laziness, after all, because if we had better characters, we'd apply willpower and shed these pounds.
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