You can't understand Rwanda? Or Cambodia or the Nazis?
By the end of the day, you will be killing fat people. Your logic with be as perversely irrational as it is perfectly logical.
I presented my case to a group of students after hearing Daniel Goldhagen speak about his most recent book, Worse than War: Genocide, Eliminiationism, and the Ongoing Assault on Humanity.
How could people ever do this?
We forever ponder this question, protecting our imagined, invariable innocence against such horrors.
But we do hate fat people. Consciously, subconsciously this hatred saturates our culture.
If we are not actively attempting to make ourselves skinny, we are fat. Damnable. Damned. Asking for our punishment.
So for those of us strong enough to be skinny, our killing would be buoyed by Far People's self-hatred.
Yes, let's make them a class, a type, a capitalised other: those Fat People. A cancer, corroding the true nature of being human -- other than human. Fat People.
Spit, scorn, hack. Kill.
•••
Could this happen?
We're well on our way. Billions spent on dieting, insecurity, self-killing anorexia, depression, anxiety.
Better than a genocide, we have an auto-in-fat-icide and we don't even know it.
What's to do?
I'm headed to the gym.
By the end of the day, you will be killing fat people. Your logic with be as perversely irrational as it is perfectly logical.
I presented my case to a group of students after hearing Daniel Goldhagen speak about his most recent book, Worse than War: Genocide, Eliminiationism, and the Ongoing Assault on Humanity.
How could people ever do this?
We forever ponder this question, protecting our imagined, invariable innocence against such horrors.
But we do hate fat people. Consciously, subconsciously this hatred saturates our culture.
If we are not actively attempting to make ourselves skinny, we are fat. Damnable. Damned. Asking for our punishment.
So for those of us strong enough to be skinny, our killing would be buoyed by Far People's self-hatred.
Yes, let's make them a class, a type, a capitalised other: those Fat People. A cancer, corroding the true nature of being human -- other than human. Fat People.Spit, scorn, hack. Kill.
•••
Could this happen?
We're well on our way. Billions spent on dieting, insecurity, self-killing anorexia, depression, anxiety.
Better than a genocide, we have an auto-in-fat-icide and we don't even know it.
What's to do?
I'm headed to the gym.
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