University of Maryland offers $5,000 'fat studies' course on how 'fatness' and 'Blackness' intersect

[InWalkedBud]

Link: University of Maryland offers $5,000 'fat studies' course on how 'fatness' and 'Blackness' intersect

...the course 'examines fatness as an area of human difference subject to privilege and discrimination that intersects with other systems of oppression based on gender, race, class, sexual orientation, and ability.'...

...Titled 'Intro to Fat Studies: Fatness, Blackness and Their Intersections,' the course is worth three credits and is part of the university's diversity quota — with most students required to take two diversity courses before graduating...

U of M charges $1645 per credit. Sounds like an excellent way to spend five grand.

 

[ttwtt78640]

Seems like a perfectly fine “diversity course” to me.

 

[multivita-man]

Link: University of Maryland offers $5,000 'fat studies' course on how 'fatness' and 'Blackness' intersect

...the course 'examines fatness as an area of human difference subject to privilege and discrimination that intersects with other systems of oppression based on gender, race, class, sexual orientation, and ability.'...

...Titled 'Intro to Fat Studies: Fatness, Blackness and Their Intersections,' the course is worth three credits and is part of the university's diversity quota — with most students required to take two diversity courses before graduating...

U of M charges $1645 per credit. Sounds like an excellent way to spend five grand.

Actually, I think there's value in understanding why one of our biggest public health problems disproportionately impacts certain demographics.

 

[ataraxia]

Yes. How dare they highlight similarities between vulnerable and demonized demographics? All these people just deserve to continue to be mocked and ridiculed with contempt for being stupid and lazy. /s

 

[NatMorton]

Actually, I think there's value in understanding why one of our biggest public health problems disproportionately impacts certain demographics.

I can save you five grand. Ultimately, for the vast majority of people impacted by "fatness" it comes down to a set of life decisions that lead one to consistently consume more calories than one burns. Pretty much everything else is noise.

 

[Bok Tuklo]

I can save you five grand. Ultimately, for the vast majority of people impacted by "fatness" it comes down to a set of life decisions that lead one to consistently consume more calories than one burns. Pretty much everything else is noise.

So any discrimination is deserved?

 

[multivita-man]

I can save you five grand. Ultimately, for the vast majority of people impacted by "fatness" it comes down to a set of life decisions that lead one to consistently consume more calories than one burns. Pretty much everything else is noise.

Maybe you could spend five grand and realize you don't know what you don't know about corporate/industrial food supply & distribution and how it disproportionately impacts certain communities. I know you aren't interested, though. Conservatives think they have all the answers and aren't interested in learning anything new, which is a defining feature of conservativism pretty much everywhere on the planet.

 

[ttwtt78640]

So any discrimination is deserved?

The US military seems to think so.

 

[ataraxia]

I can save you five grand. Ultimately, for the vast majority of people impacted by "fatness" it comes down to a set of life decisions that lead one to consistently consume more calories than one burns. Pretty much everything else is noise.

Everything is so simple. I don't know why these libtards just like to make everything out to be so much more complex than it is. They're so stupid.

Obesity is complicated — and so is treating it - Harvard Health

Along with the growing realization that obesity is a complex disease comes greater understanding that treatments need to be highly individualized and address the physical and emotional factors that...

www.health.harvard.edu

 

[ataraxia]

The US military seems to think so.

The US military also doesn't take people with lupus. Those stupid lupus patients- they just need to go pick themselves up by the bootstraps. Simple.

 

[Bok Tuklo]

The US military seems to think so.

Thank God.

Not sure what that has to do with the day to day discrimination directed at people who are overweight but I’m all for military readiness. I would say the same for other professions as well.

 

[NatMorton]

Everything is so simple. I don't know why these libtards just like to make everything out to be so much more complex than it is. They're so stupid.

Obesity is complicated — and so is treating it - Harvard Health

Along with the growing realization that obesity is a complex disease comes greater understanding that treatments need to be highly individualized and address the physical and emotional factors that...

www.health.harvard.edu

It's not that they fail to see it as simple. They see obesity -- like the do so many other issues -- as a political opportunity for expanding government.

 

[ttwtt78640]

The US military also doesn't take people with lupus. Those stupid lupus patients- they just need to go pick themselves up by the bootstraps. Simple.

Maybe that group will become the topic of a “diversity course” at UM.

 

[NatMorton]

Yes. How dare they highlight similarities between vulnerable and demonized demographics? All these people just deserve to continue to be mocked and ridiculed with contempt for being stupid and lazy. /s

One wonders if you would ever dare to miss an opportunity to virtue signal.

 

[Bok Tuklo]

The US military also doesn't take people with lupus. Those stupid lupus patients- they just need to go pick themselves up by the bootstraps. Simple.

They also engage in age related discrimination.

 

[Bok Tuklo]

One wonders if you would ever dare to miss an opportunity to virtue signal.

Or you to vice signal.

 

[ttwtt78640]

Thank God.

Not sure what that has to do with the day to day discrimination directed at people who are overweight but I’m all for military readiness. I would say the same for other professions as well.

Does that mean you’re OK with employment discrimination based on obesity?

 

[Port & Starboard]

I suggest a class action lawsuit against all the cutlery making companies.

Everyone knows that spoons make you fat and these companies are using predatory marketing practices with their focal point on minorities.

 

[BirdinHand]

Sounds like an interesting class to me

 

[eman623]

Actually, I think there's value in understanding why one of our biggest public health problems disproportionately impacts certain demographics.

Racism. It's obviously racism. No doubt about it.

I'll PM you where to send my $5K.

 

[Bok Tuklo]

Does that mean you’re OK with employment discrimination based on obesity?

No.

 

[ttwtt78640]

They also engage in age related discrimination.

Yep, in multiple different ways.

 

[zincwarrior]

If Calories eaten > Calories burned = body fat increases

 

[BirdinHand]

Does that mean you’re OK with employment discrimination based on obesity?

You think this doesn’t exist?

Companies discriminate every.single.day - for a variety of reasons.

It is just REALLY hard to prove it because companies have armies of attorneys that know how to fight claims of discrimination for all but the most egregious of accusations and cases.

 

[Lovebug]

I can save you five grand. Ultimately, for the vast majority of people impacted by "fatness" it comes down to a set of life decisions that lead one to consistently consume more calories than one burns. Pretty much everything else is noise.

All that healthy organic stuff is readily available to all and costs mere pennies.
Let them eat cake.