What is discrimination really? So I like to listen to podcasts and I was listening to a podcast by Colleen Patrick Goudreau. She was telling a story about a time where she was going to teach a class on going vegan healthfully(now if you take issue with veganism that isn't the point of the store it just provides the context). The class was going to include small segment on the health benefits of going vegan and one of them was potential weight loss. Colleen stated that she never promised weight loss and never guaranteed it, but that people do often lose weight on a vegan diet. This class was going to be taught at a Unitarian universality church and one of the members was a fat activist. Enter reeing. Naturally, the fat activist took issue with the course including a segment on losing weight and said that she was being DISCRIMINATED against because of this segment. They went before the board because this woman, Judy, wanted the course to be canceled because, she believed, it discriminated against fat people. Here's the real argument part of. Colleen talked about how Judy stated that by saying that veganism will help you lose weight, it is implying that weight loss is better than being fat and thus discriminated against fat people. Colleen calls this a logical fallacy. This is much akin to saying vegans like animals, hitler liked animals, therefore vegans are like hitler. Colleen broke apart this woman's argument and showed that while Judy had a right to be offended, she did not have a right to be discriminatory, which is exactly what she was doing. Colleen wasn't discriminating against fat people. Discrimination is when you prevent a group of people from doing something. Colleen was not preventing his woman from doing anything. In fact, it was the opposite. This woman was preventing Colleen from giving a 7 hour class on veganism, of which maybe 30 minutes was dedicated to health, because this woman was offended. In the end, the board cowardly told Colleen that if she was going to have her class she had to have a fat activist present and pass out materials on fat activism AND was not allowed to talk about weight loss and health AND Judy would STILL protest the entire class as fat shaming. In the end, Colleen moved the class to her home and ceased all activities with the church. I think it parallels a lot with us. Fat activists want to shut us down because they are offended. We are not preventing them from doing anything, but they have pushed us off reddit, planned takeovers of our sites and had several fitness hashtags on instagram flagged. We have been censored and discriminated against. Anything fats are unable to do is by their own doing, we didn't make them too big for their seats. tl;dr: Discrimination is preventing someone from doing something because of their being a part of a certain group, fats have prevented us from having our space thus discriminating, but we have prevented them from doing anything. They can't do things because of their own doing.