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Nowhere in her post did she

Nowhere in her post did she say that this bill was the SAME as racial prejudice; she was illustrating fat discrimination by showing a similarity in how blacks were treated by restaurants in recent history. You are making this into far more than anything she wrote or even implied. As a regular reader of fat discrimination literature the parallels are quite striking between fat and discrimination against many other oppressed peoples. For your to dismiss the parallel by making a pseudo-argument is something that might make it valuable to examine your own uncomfortableness with the parallel.

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