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Originally posted by sugar and spice
My boyfriend and I were discussing this issue a couple days ago, and I actually compared it to race relations. I basically said that skinny people can complain about how they can relate to fat people's problems because they get "discriminated" against too, but it's not the same thing at all . . . much like some white people like to pretend that "reverse discrimination" is as painful as the discrimination that minorities face. 
An interesting analogy.
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Discrimination, taunting, and offensive comments and behavior towards the obese/overweight is the last acceptable form of prejudice. It's an -ism, fatism. And it's so ingrained and accepted, that many people don't realize that they are doing it nor do they feel bad about it either...