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To add to the conversation,
To add to the conversation, the benefit of the Jim Crow comparison is
that it highlights the proposed legislation's unreasonableness as
well as the way that it infantilizes those with BMIs over 30 (i.e.
you must not be able to control yourself, so you don't get to make
your own decisions), just as Jim Crow legislation did. But the
comparison seems more interesting when I think about both of these
instances in terms of choosing one's politics based on appearance -
or, rather, how others are able to implement their politics based on
one's appearance. Jim Crow laws allowed one group of people to
discriminate against another group based on physical appearance, and
this law does the same.
But to follow up with Melanie's initial point, is it irresponsible to
visually align one kind of discrimination (fat hatred) with another,
when the legacy of the latter was/is so atrocious? I would agree with
Melanie in this particular instance. Sandy Szwarc doesn't
contextualize her use of the image in a responsible way or offer an
in-depth explanation of how the two might be connected (unlike in
Nate's post).