Cross-posted from my comment in the thread in question:

I’ll be honest, I saw the title "Comrades, time to unlearn the fatphobia we've internalised from society" and immediately negatively reacted to it. I’m still wary that fat acceptance, in the worst cases, lead people to reject losing weight for health reasons like heart disease.
However, a lot of the discourse in the thread have been very enlightening to me. In particular, anti-fatphobia != fat acceptance. Some of the commenters here show how fucking awful fatphobia has traumatized them and actively prevented them from developing healthy relationships with food. I hate to imagine people see this post ratioed and have the same initial reaction I did.
The post, and these kinds of posts, are the shit I like chapo for. People come in as skeptics with the intellectual curiosity and humility to study the discourse or material, and people hold one another to a standard for mutually respectful discussion. Fuck R*ddit circlejerks getting off on hating the people commenting for one position or the other. Criticism is aimed at the positions themselves. The circlejerk is reserved for liberals and the system that fucked people's health. Makes me feel like I'm in a real community with a common enemy y'know. Keep up the good work comrades, hoping to see more sessions like this.

  • PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS [he/him, they/them]
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    4 years ago

    Not sure how many here were on Reddit for the r/FatPeopleHate shit, but it was truly outrageous, shocking and vile and went on for a long fucking time

    • congressbaseballfan [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      One of my lowest points (from the point of view of being a good person) was that I subscribed to that sub when it first started. Back then it was making fun of the people who yelled at doctors for telling them that obesity leads to comorbidities and that they should consider weight loss.

      The sub took a quick turn for the worse, and started being downright mean and horrible. I unsubscribed but am still embarrassed about it. Like of course it was going to go that direction. When the anti-sjw shit came in that made me do a quick 180 and realize some of my internal biases. I remember getting attacked on the old cth sub for getting mad at a meme with a very obese person on a motor scooter at a trump rally, and being unable to articulate the problems with that in a way that didn’t come come across as sjw concern trolling, but my experience with FPH saw the red flag immediately when seeing that image used in that way

      I think fat acceptance is different than having solidarity and recognizing your own biases.

      • LeninWalksTheWorld [any]
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        4 years ago

        lol I also subscribed to that godawful sub for some reason back then. I was literally a child but you're right that place got vile quickly and I'm glad I stepped off before that shit poisoned me.

        • Kappapillar [comrade/them,undecided]
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          4 years ago

          I feel it though. I used to love seeing cringeposts. It was this shitty satisfaction that I was soo much better than the "fat, cringy mlp furries with dyed hair" everyone was laughing at. Fuuuck I was a shitty little teenager. Getting older helped with the empathy, and now I'm here boiiiiz

  • wizzyrodhamrobe [it/its]
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    4 years ago

    I was pro-ana to fatpeoplehate and even got "verified," which you did by sending a timestamped pic of yourself shirtless. Not surprisingly, the modship and verified users were almost 100% children, bulemics or anorexics like me, or the usual reddit mods that desperately want to leverage their little power for sexual favors. Male mods and a female skewed userbase (for reddit)

    Really fucking toxic, super glad they banned it,

  • anaesidemus [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    I have internalized fatphobia, I've never had to worry about my weight, so I can't really fathom what "overweight" people go through. Mostly I feel pity, which is probably not a helpful emotion.

    What I do know is that the commercialized Hollywood definition of healthy is most likely more unhealthy than being "medically overweight".

    I agree with OP, it's good to learn more about the struggles of others

  • wtypstanaccount04 [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Comrades, time to unlearn the fatphobia we’ve internalised from society

    I negatively reacted to it too, even though I'm fat and I agree. I just don't like social justice buzzwords, I think.