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From YouTube: APRIL 6 2023 Statements Aman Singh
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The Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
4th Session
42nd Parliament
A
Member
for
regiment
Queensborough,
thank
you.
Mr
Speaker,
in
the
wake
of
an
Oscar
win
for
the
whale,
a
horrifically
discriminatory
movie
that
uses
fat
suits
and
don't
be
mistaken.
A
fat
suit
is
just
blackface
in
another
context
and
a
storyline
to
paint
the
protagonist's
grotesque.
Pitiful
is
well
beyond
time.
We
talk
about
fat
phobia.
We
talk
about
racism,
homophobia,
transphobia,
ableism,
sexism,
but
we
don't
address
the
systemic
oppression
that
affects
people
who
live
in
large
bodies.
A
Fat
phobia
is
the
implicit
and
explicit
bias
that
is
rooted
in
a
sense
of
blame
and
presumed
moral
failing
being
fat
is
highly
stigmatized
in
culture.
Anti-Fatness
is
intrinsically
linked
to
anti-blackness
racism,
classism
misogyny
and
many
other
systems
of
Oppression.
Often
it
is
blaring
and
obnoxious,
but
more
often
than
not
fat
phobia
is
less
overtly
mean
and
instead,
cloaked
and
concerned
for
the
fat
person.
Your
mom
clipping
articles
about
how
being
at
higher
weight,
causes
worse
complications.
It's
actually
way
more
complicated
than
that.
A
Sometimes
it
looks
like
unsolicited
suggestions
to
exercise
or
subtle
weight,
loss,
advice
or
fat
phobia
can
come
out
as
a
classic
microaggressions.
You
have
such
a
pretty
face.
The
unspoken
part
the
rest
of
you
not
so
much,
there's
this
mistaken
belief
that,
if
you
diet
or
or
you
eat
a
certain
way,
you
can
control
things,
but
there's
more
and
more
evidence
that
we
are
largely
not
in
control
of
our
body
size.
The
harm
full
effects
of
fat
phobia
are
a
constant
for
people
in
larger
bodies,
and
it
is
more
intense
for
women
higher
weight.
A
People
of
color
also
face
dual
segmentization
that
can
compound
things
like
the
wage,
Gap
and
medical
discrimination
experiencing
weight.
Stigma
has
real
life
effects.
The
stress
and
repeated
trauma
that
aggressions
create
leads
to
more
illness.
It
causes
anxiety,
depression,
poor
body
image,
poor
self-esteem,
women
earn
less
as
they
gain
weight
people,
especially
women,
seen
as
fat
get
poorer,
Medical
Care.
This
is
a
life
and
death
issue.
For
many,
it
destroys
people
it's
up
to
us,
Mr
Speaker,
to
make
this
world
a
better
place
for
everybody.
Let's
do
that.