University of Illinois Chicago wants to ban the word 'obesity' because focusing on body size is 'rooted in racism'https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10829285/Woke-experts-warn-word-obesity-RACIST-suggest-people-larger-bodies-instead.htmlMultiple woke academics now claim the word 'obesity' is racist and should be dropped in favor of 'people with larger bodies.'
The University of Illinois Chicago's school of public health published a health brief titled: 'Addressing weight stigma and fatphobia in public health' that explored 'the association between racism, weight, and health.'
According to Amanda Montgomery RD, public health's focus on preventing obesity has brought in an increase of negative attitudes towards 'people with larger bodies' - her preferred alternative term - and is currently one of the only socially acceptable forms of discrimination.
The brief claims that public health approaches related to obesity can be harmful because of the focus on one outcome - weight loss- and because it tends to ignore the root cause of the issue.
Academics say many of the causes are rooted in discrimination borne of settlers driving Native Americans off their land, then forcing black and Hispanic workers to farm that land for low pay.
But according to the brief the focus on body size is rooted in racism, claiming that previously a majority of societies actually favored larger bodies but that all changed due to racism and eugenics.
Montgomery wrote that race scientist, including Charles Darwin, created a 'hierarchy of civilization' that placed people of color, specifically black people, at the bottom, because they were considered to be 'less civilized which was justified by 'fatness' and other differing body characteristics.
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