Actress wants prison time for fat-shamers

Being fat is unhealthy and it makes you feel slower because you are slower with many of the activities you might want to do, such as walk up a long flight of stairs, or catching a bus. It's also a known cause of many serious medical conditions such as hypertension, diabetes and heart disease.

But that isn't what this post is about.

There's an actress, Jameela Jamil, who wants to classify "fat-shaming" as hate speech, First Amendment be damned.

Now fat-shaming is wrong and cruel because its intention is to make a fat person feel bad about their excessive weight.

And calling Jews "termites" is wrong because it is intended to dehumanize Jews. And calling liberals "morons" is cruel, since it makes morons feel bad because it gives them a bad name. But it isn't illegal--it's simply wrong.

But it's freedom of speech to do so, and the remedy to this disgusting speech is more speech from the other side, the other opinion. Because who is it to determine what is hate speech over free speech? Certainly not you or me. It will end up to be the government, and we all know what happens when the government takes over something.

Jamil announced announced last week that she would start a company based on her Instagram account, “I Weigh,” which focuses on body positivity. She said in a tweet last Wednesday that one of her new company's  “main goals is to work towards a policy change that means this way of talking about people’s bodies is considered hate speech.”

“Fat-phobia is real, it is pervasive and prevalent and is damaging the mental health of millions,” she added, obviously not understanding the term "phobia," or irrational fear. Fat-shaming has nothing to do with fear of being fat or fear of fat people, it's a form of abusive negative speech that when used against a person of girth, needs to be countered with an intelligent put down of the moron [there I go again insulting morons] who fat-shamed.

But to make it illegal is an attack on the U.S. Constitution.

Jamil's tweet was a response to a Twitter user who posted photos from a tabloid showing two female celebrities in bathing suits. In one photo, Rebel Wilson wears a one-piece bathing suit with the caption: “The stand-up comedian, 29, made a big splash in Pitch Perfect, and does the same when she hits the surf!”

Not very nice.

Now one might not see this as cruel, but the comment is made among other photos mocking celebrities for their looks, including Tara Reid’s “botched surgery.”

The person who posted this crap is obviously an anal sphincter of the first kind.

Another photo posted by the same sphincter shows “Glee” actress Lea Michele in a bikini bending over with the caption: The 28-year-old singer’s most famous role was on Glee, but her biggest rolls are…” the photo cuts off. The image includes a circle around her torso and the words “roll player.”

And so on with other famous people.

Jamil explained that her Instagram account and her new company aren't about “making women feel more better” [more better is redundant, which, like excessive fat, is an excess of words] but about “encouraging people to see beyond their exterior and celebrate attributes that aren’t about their aesthetics.”

Honestly, Jamil probably means well and is a successful signaler of virtue, but you cannot allow hate speech to be equal to a hate crime.

Well here we are in the beginning of a new year and the world still hasn't come to an end with President Trump in the White House, in spite of what the media and the left [but I repeat myself] would have you believe.

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