The Blog That Goes Ping

5/15/2007

Paul Campos on Gina Kolata’s Rethinking Thin

Filed under: General — Ed That Goes Ping @ 8:02 am

Rocky Mountain News – Opinion Columnists:

This inspires me to point something out to my more liberal readers. Remember that particularly clueless right-wing acquaintance of yours? The one who believes that anybody in America can become rich, because he thinks about poverty in a completely unscientific, anecdotal way, which allows him to treat the exceptional case as typical? The one who can’t seem to understand the simplest structural arguments about the nature of social inequality?

The next time you see some fat people and get disgusted by their failure to “take care of themselves,” think about your clueless friend.

Via fat-fu.

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