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"Nearly all of us, fat and thin alike, have spent a lifetime learning to see fat people as problems, pariahs, or scapegoats. But what if, instead of doing what we know how to do–instead of comfortably, distantly blaming fat people–we looked at ourselves? What would happen if we interrogated our own beliefs? What would happen if we acknowledged our own complicity in hurting and harming fat people? What would become of us if we sat quietly with our own misconceptions,…
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