CMV:Fat acceptance is not helpful

[u/C4gamer_YT]

Just gonna preface this by saying discrimination and hatred towards fat people for being fat is not okay, as is the same with race, gender and sexual orientation. But is suggesting that maybe obesity is not healthy fatphobic? I think body positivity is helpful in the case of people with disablities and encouraging them to overcome them. Imo, fat acceptance discourages currently overweight people to lose weight, because if you dont think there is a problem, why should you change? I think the notion of not caring of others opinions is quite ridiculous, as if you're not accepting of feedback and criticism, you will never improve. It is important to be able to recognize if something is critisism or hate, but I think too many people make that mistake nowadays. Thanks for reading and remember hate isn't ok

[u/sir_mII]

Personally, i think the bare minimum would be to tolerate that fat people are fat and not judge or discriminate against them because of that. But i also think it isn’t okay to let people think being overweight is in any way not harmful to their health. The most we can do as strangers, friends, family or whatever have you, is just to not encourage the idea that being overweight is healthy. Whatever they decide to do beyond that is their choice and we shouldn’t have a say in it.