Comments on: Rights of the Rubenesque: London Considers Making Fatism a Form of Hate Speech http://jonathanturley.org/2009/10/19/rights-of-the-rubenesque-london-considers-making-fatism-a-form-of-hate-speech/ Res ipsa loquitur ("The thing itself speaks") Tue, 14 Feb 2012 07:32:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: JEFF http://jonathanturley.org/2009/10/19/rights-of-the-rubenesque-london-considers-making-fatism-a-form-of-hate-speech/#comment-86803 Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:05:45 +0000 http://jonathanturley.org/?p=16280#comment-86803 Can we just get on with the civil war against these morons. They should not be breathing the same air as us!

]]> By: Morning Links | The Agitator http://jonathanturley.org/2009/10/19/rights-of-the-rubenesque-london-considers-making-fatism-a-form-of-hate-speech/#comment-86739 Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:06:54 +0000 http://jonathanturley.org/?p=16280#comment-86739 [...] wants to make it a hate crime to say mean things to fat [...]

]]> By: C.L. http://jonathanturley.org/2009/10/19/rights-of-the-rubenesque-london-considers-making-fatism-a-form-of-hate-speech/#comment-86609 Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:51:54 +0000 http://jonathanturley.org/?p=16280#comment-86609 Interested how many people would seek to define someone as a “fatist” simply for calling someone overweight, but not to define a sexist by calling someone a woman, a racist for calling someone black, or even an agist by calling someone old.

]]> By: CCD http://jonathanturley.org/2009/10/19/rights-of-the-rubenesque-london-considers-making-fatism-a-form-of-hate-speech/#comment-86452 Tue, 20 Oct 2009 04:23:58 +0000 http://jonathanturley.org/?p=16280#comment-86452 From the linked article:

Dr Ian Campbell of the charity Weight Concern said, “People who are very overweight do experience a lot of prejudice both in their social life and working life…”

For folks with weight issues, it is a complex problem, but
self acceptance and self esteem go along way.

]]> By: Queen http://jonathanturley.org/2009/10/19/rights-of-the-rubenesque-london-considers-making-fatism-a-form-of-hate-speech/#comment-86434 Tue, 20 Oct 2009 01:13:24 +0000 http://jonathanturley.org/?p=16280#comment-86434 Everybody, punch up another play of Fat Bottomed Girls right now!

]]> By: lottakatz http://jonathanturley.org/2009/10/19/rights-of-the-rubenesque-london-considers-making-fatism-a-form-of-hate-speech/#comment-86411 Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:40:46 +0000 http://jonathanturley.org/?p=16280#comment-86411 Elaine M.
“May I suggest a new law term … How about habeas corpulence?”
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Outstanding! :-)

]]> By: Anonymously Yours http://jonathanturley.org/2009/10/19/rights-of-the-rubenesque-london-considers-making-fatism-a-form-of-hate-speech/#comment-86403 Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:32:53 +0000 http://jonathanturley.org/?p=16280#comment-86403 Queen,

Are you suggesting that you like big men, go back and re-listen to that song and listen to it from the point of view as a gay man. You will not be amused and you see, I think life is funny because people like things and do not know what it is all about.

You wanna know about heroin, listen to uncle kracker and follow me:

]]> By: Queen http://jonathanturley.org/2009/10/19/rights-of-the-rubenesque-london-considers-making-fatism-a-form-of-hate-speech/#comment-86402 Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:25:24 +0000 http://jonathanturley.org/?p=16280#comment-86402

]]> By: Tom http://jonathanturley.org/2009/10/19/rights-of-the-rubenesque-london-considers-making-fatism-a-form-of-hate-speech/#comment-86401 Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:22:50 +0000 http://jonathanturley.org/?p=16280#comment-86401 If you are going to prohibit “fatism” shouldn’t you also prohibit “skinnyism” and wouldn’t that bar critism of the fashion designers who use very slender models?

]]> By: Anonymously Yours http://jonathanturley.org/2009/10/19/rights-of-the-rubenesque-london-considers-making-fatism-a-form-of-hate-speech/#comment-86398 Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:11:31 +0000 http://jonathanturley.org/?p=16280#comment-86398 You know I was contacted by someone that got turned down for Short Termed Disability. They claimed that 15 pounds over is obesed. Come on man this is where the insurance laws are headed here in the US.

There are some people that like big women. I don’t really care so long as the heart is in the correct place. I have dated many of a women and I have learned that beauty is skin deep and UGLY is to the bone. I would much rather be alone that with someone that is ugly, mean and nasty….

]]> By: Anonymously Yours http://jonathanturley.org/2009/10/19/rights-of-the-rubenesque-london-considers-making-fatism-a-form-of-hate-speech/#comment-86391 Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:32:01 +0000 http://jonathanturley.org/?p=16280#comment-86391 Gyges 1, October 19, 2009 at 4:12 pm

First they came for the fat jokes, but I said nothing, because I’m big boned.

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I guess you’d have to have one….bada boom

]]> By: John Donne http://jonathanturley.org/2009/10/19/rights-of-the-rubenesque-london-considers-making-fatism-a-form-of-hate-speech/#comment-86390 Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:31:23 +0000 http://jonathanturley.org/?p=16280#comment-86390 No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend’s or of thine own were: any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.

]]> By: Elaine M. http://jonathanturley.org/2009/10/19/rights-of-the-rubenesque-london-considers-making-fatism-a-form-of-hate-speech/#comment-86388 Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:27:22 +0000 http://jonathanturley.org/?p=16280#comment-86388 Three cheers for the Rubenesque: Hippy, hippy, hooray! Phat phorever!

May I suggest a new law term if “fatism” is determined to be a form of hate speech in the US and people are charged with the offense? How about habeas corpulence?

]]> By: Dietrich Bonhoeffer http://jonathanturley.org/2009/10/19/rights-of-the-rubenesque-london-considers-making-fatism-a-form-of-hate-speech/#comment-86386 Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:22:46 +0000 http://jonathanturley.org/?p=16280#comment-86386 “First they came for the Communists, but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Socialists and the Trade Unionists, but I was neither, so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Jews, but I was not a Jew so I did not speak out. And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me.”

]]> By: Gyges http://jonathanturley.org/2009/10/19/rights-of-the-rubenesque-london-considers-making-fatism-a-form-of-hate-speech/#comment-86385 Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:15:39 +0000 http://jonathanturley.org/?p=16280#comment-86385 Can’t believe I didn’t make this connection 4 min. ago.

]]> By: Gyges http://jonathanturley.org/2009/10/19/rights-of-the-rubenesque-london-considers-making-fatism-a-form-of-hate-speech/#comment-86384 Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:12:19 +0000 http://jonathanturley.org/?p=16280#comment-86384 First they came for the fat jokes, but I said nothing, because I’m big boned.

]]> By: nal http://jonathanturley.org/2009/10/19/rights-of-the-rubenesque-london-considers-making-fatism-a-form-of-hate-speech/#comment-86382 Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:04:15 +0000 http://jonathanturley.org/?p=16280#comment-86382 The First Amendment is being nibbled away.

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