So I scrolled down on the comments, because even when I'm goofing off, I goof off. I have no legitimate reason. And I saw someone's comment saying she liked it- She said it was clean, simple, and skinny. Which it is. These are facts. Someone made a joke, which I liked-"real fonts have curves". It's a good joke.
But then someone attacked the OP (original poster). I'm posting the whole comment, and even though I'm not giving you the link to Google's blog, it's not hard to find, but please, whatever you do with this, don't troll this guy. He seems sad enough to me.
So you hate fat people? Just what I would expect from a racist. Look what America has become. Accept the lord as your master and savior! This is the only way those blacks will go to heaven anyway... Screw your PC bullshit
So it seems a little hypocritical to me-calling someone a racist, then saying a racist comment saying Black people won't go to heaven unless they accept the Lord as their Savior. It's also really uncalled for, but that's not what I'm here to talk about.
Even if the OP said that she did hate fat people, that's not racist. Racist means, simply, a prejudice for or against a particular race. From Merriam-Webster-"racism-a belief that some races are by nature superior to others; also: discrimination based on such belief". Weight is not a race. There is no shared fat-people culture, or skinny-people culture, they are not all from one country (and I've heard several variations of the "fat Americans" joke), and they are not all of one skin tone.
That's not to say that there isn't a word for prejudice against the overweight. When I was on iFunny the other day, I found a picture of an excerpt from a book called "Politically Correct Bedtime Stories" (you can just google "politically correct fairy tales" and get a PDF to read). I found myself a PDF and it was FUNNY! I won't tell you any of the stories, because they're just a pleasure to read, but it opens up with an introduction that tells you how silly the book is going to be (not in those exact words, of course). Here's the important part:
"If [...] I have inadvertantly displayed any sexist, racist, culturalist, nationalist, regionalist, ageist, lookist, ableist, sizeist, speciesist, intellectualist, socioeconimicist, ethnocentrist, phallocentrist, heteropatriachalist, or other type of bias as yet unnamed, I apologize and encourage your suggestions
for rectification."
Not all of those prejudices are words, I'm pretty sure. But my point is, there are so many types of prejudices out there, and they're not all racism, or race-oriented. Some people are just misguided, in fact, and dislike people. I always wonder how neo-Nazis can find anything admirable in the Nazi party to the point where they want to emulate it. (If anyone has any ideas, please tell me. I don't understand, seriously, and would like to.) But just calling someone a racist when they display (or you think they display) some kind of prejudice as the guy above did is wrong, and you lose a lot of credibility as a debater. (Not to mention the amount of Katie-points you lose by not carefully choosing your words!)
Anyway, that's all. Just thought I should clarify for everyone.
