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Originally posted by Shine
I personally don't discriminate against anyone except by their personal actions. Many people in this world fail to do that.
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That's the way to view people, and I wish everyone in the world could do that, because there would be way fewer problems... but unfortunately people don't.
Although I never tried to imply that being skinny was as bad as being... well, not... it is interesting when I think about it and compare that point to my personal experiences with race. I know how hurtful it is to be upset about discrimination against people of your race (hispanic in my case) and have others say things like "oh get over it." It happened in a thread on GC! I was like, you're white so you don't know what it's like... what gives you the right to tell me to get over it???
So when I think about it that way, and think about the way some people have misread my posts and some others' posts, I see where you guys are coming from when you say you can't compare the two. But for the record, I didn't see anyone actually trying to say that being skinny was worse than not being skinny... but I can see how it could have been read that way.