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Fatphobia, Victimhood, and the Culture of Dodging Responsibility
When we think of fatphobia, what comes to mind? Personally, I picture someone being insulted in the street, spat on, or banned from entering a public place just for being fat. But… does this actually happen? Let’s be real: no. Most people are too busy with their own lives to care about your body or what you’re wearing.
But then comes the loud narrative: people with morbid obesity claiming that everything is fatphobic. Airlines? Fatp…
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Over the decades, I have watched many Ken Burns films and I see Burns as one of our most skillful American filmmakers. However, I also consider Burns to be a partisan propagandist. This film, about America and the Holocaust is not the first of his to take a political side and to make generalized condemnations of conservatives and the working class.
Ken Burn’s career-long client, the institution that broadcasts his documentaries, has been Public Television. In the past, I have made large donations to PBS. Over time, I have come to recognize that, in representing their coverage of history as being objective, neither Burns nor PBS are being truthful or fair and I do not believe that they are acting in good faith.
Today, I prefer to make my charitable donation to people and institutions, without a partisan agenda, institutions such as F.A.I.R. and F.I.R.E..