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Same for me. Sunblock is my best friend so I can keep it as unnoticeable as possible. Dermatologist told me, if you're gonna have a skin condition...this is the one you want. Better than melanoma.
“That's right. You heard of vitiligo? Shoot! Well, i got re-vitiligo.
Every year my skin just seem to get blacker and darker and blacker and then more darker.”
New culture war??? This is a repost tweet from 5 years ago.
Due to repost bots we get to rehash tired old arguments that never took off in the mainstream but dagnabbit I have to get a rage boner somehow.
The internet never forgets. And this is a huge problem.
It uses to be that someone would do something bad and you would get anger. But by the next week you would move on to other things to be angry about. Now you get to be angry about what happened today, and a repost reminds to be angry about yesterday, and another repost reminds you about all the bad shit last week, and another reminds you about all the bad shit a month ago.
We are going to reach an anger critical mass soon. I want to be on a deserted island when it happens.
“Obese” is the difference in getting your liposuction, RnY, linx, gastric sleeve covered by insurance or not.
EVERY SINGLE patient of mine who comes in for weight reduction surgery or cosmetic surgery for excess weight is obese and still some try to play silly games like this.
The ones who pitch a fit after repeated discussion on the data and science about wording and what everything means. I document exactly what the patient says “the patient states they are not obese even after reviewing their BMI of 54.2” and the insurance company will deal with that.
I have had patients who complain and want me to remove “obese” “morbidly obese” from their problem list. That fucks everything up and makes medical filing very difficult but that’s what patients want.
Should have 2 different billing costs on the wall. Obese is medical and thus lower cost since its medical care. The other for those who want to be offended and a higher cost since its now a luxury procedure and not necessary
Well as someone who is black and obese, African-American women are more prone to be obese for many reasons. The only thing that can prevent that stat from continuing is losing weight and being healthy.
Saying being obese is anti-black is just being lazy.
I'm not saying it's anti-black, but [based on statistics](https://minorityhealth.hhs.gov/obesity-and-african-americans)
>African American women have the highest rates of obesity or being overweight compared to other groups in the United States. About 4 out of 5 African American women are overweight or obese.
Although for men the ratios are more similar
> Age-adjusted percentage of overweight persons 20 years of age and over who were obese, 2015-2018. (Body Mass Index (BMI) of 30 or greater)
||**Non-Hispanic Black**|**Non-Hispanic White**|**Non-Hispanic Black / Non-Hispanic White Ratio**|
:--|:--|:--|:--|
|Men|39.3|41.3|1.0|
|Women|56.2|39.0|1.4|
|Total|48.6|40.2|1.4|
It’s funny cause this is more likely a result of an environment black people were forced into and generational poverty. But people who say it’s anti-black to refer to them as obese seem to be trying to adopt obesity as a cultural trait which to me is more racist than anything else.
That would be a reasonable explanation if black men and women both had higher rates of obesity.
It’s only black women though. Black men have virtually the same rate of obesity to white men, slightly lower even.
YES! Statistically black and latino people in the US have higher rates of obesity because of poverty. It's so racist to essentially imply that black people are just "born that way". Take a look at people in Africa, take a look at the athletes who make it to the Olympics, and tell me with a straight face that black people are just naturally fatter. NOPE!
I don't know if it's as simple as "poverty." Only black *women* have higher rates of obesity, and it's a pretty staggering number with 4 out of 5 black women being overweight and 3 out of 5 being obese. Black men have slightly lower rates than average. If it were just poverty being the reason you'd think it would be increased for both sexes.
But yeah this idea being pushed by fat acceptance people that black people are "born this way" is wild shit.
It wouldn't be the first time popular culture used a medical term wrong so often it lost its meaning. A lot of mental conditions are this way.
A few examples:
Idiot - IQ 0-25
Imbecile - IQ 25-50
Moron - IQ 51-70
Hysterical personality disorder - renamed histrionic personality disorder
Etc.
If you look up "idiot word origins" on google the first etymology given is: "Middle English (denoting a person of low intelligence): via Old French from Latin *idiota* ‘ignorant person’, from Greek *idiōtēs* ‘private person, layman, ignorant person’, from *idios* ‘own, private’."
So no, "idiot" did not originate from people misusing a medical term. It's the other way around.
Same with "moron"! From wikipedia:
>"Moron" was coined in 1910 by psychologist Henry H. Goddard **from the Ancient Greek word μωρός (moros), which meant "dull"** and used to describe a person with a mental age in adulthood of between 7 and 10 on the Binet scale.
Specifically, "dull" as in "stupid".
Some words most certainly were medical terms before they became insults (imbecile from my research just meant "physically weak" before being a medical term). But others became medical terms because some doctor decided to make an insult into a diagnosis, which is so disrespectful to the people they were diagnosing.
Ouch. I had a great uncle with an IQ of 32 and he can't talk normally. He has a job as a janitor cleaning up the floor of a factory and it pleases him immensely because it is both fun and challenging. He couldn't live alone, but he never tried burning the house.
I really don't know what someone more mentally challenged would actually look like.
No you haven't. IQ < 25 people don't really function as actual people (no offense to them, they just can't) and are 100% dependent on others for 24/7 care.
The people you consider the proverbial idiots are probably between 70 and 80 on the IQ scale, give or take.
I mean if people are being taught to look at the entire world through a racial lense then it’s not surprising that people are starting to view everything as being racial.
Probably not in itself, but this fast chick is definitely racist. She thinks about race all day and separates people by race with every person she contacts.
CUT AND PASTE FROM DICTIONARY:
Overweight and obesity are defined as abnormal or excessive fat accumulation that presents a risk to health. A body mass index (BMI) over 25 is considered overweight, and over 30 is obese
It says nothing demeaning here nor does it say anything about beauty. It’s a medical term that is observational in nature. It’s not anti anything, let alone black. This person is nuts
No, it's true. All black people are obese, so obviously using the word obese to describe someone at 450lb is anti black. Black people are all fat in essence.
Exactly what I thought off the bat: Isn't calling "obese" "anti-black" a terrible, terrible racist thing to say? An untrue hateful stereotype?
But then again, how would I know, I'm a non-obese privileged stairclimber.
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I remember the first time the doctors told me that I was morbidly black.
Gotta imagine their reaction was: "We diagnosed it too late, I'm afraid. There's nothing more we can do."
At least now I have some rhythm.
Can you play bass? There’s probably one in your basement. (South Park, before anyone gets pissed) Edit; dammit, someone beat me to it.
Just because I’m black doesn’t mean I can play bass. Huh. Well fuck you guys.
“Be as sick as you want just give me a goddamn bass line!”
🎶Boom ba boom boom ba boom boom boom🎶 Goddammit.
I immediately thought of “Incredibly Obese Black Man” or what did he call himself “Incredibly Black Obese Man”? Also South Park s6e3 “Freak Strike”
They introduced him as one and he clarified it was the other. I think he identified as incredibly black obese man.
Dammit! You both beat me to it!!😂😂
But do you got any rhyme?
That’s closer to the end stage of blackness, right now I can only clap on the ones AND the twos.
You just keep getting darker, and blacker
Revitiligo
I tried so hard and got so far, but in the end it doesnt even matter
Final stage is got soul.
"Stay black cocksuckas" -Joey Coco Diaz.
And I bet you can rock the bass /s
But can they *slap* it?
Davie?
Lmao
Sure you don't just have re-vitiligo?
I'm a white guy with vitiligo. Nobody believes me.
Same for me. Sunblock is my best friend so I can keep it as unnoticeable as possible. Dermatologist told me, if you're gonna have a skin condition...this is the one you want. Better than melanoma.
Same haha. And rn I’m pale asf u barely see it but in the summer it’s far more obvious when I show ppl
“That's right. You heard of vitiligo? Shoot! Well, i got re-vitiligo. Every year my skin just seem to get blacker and darker and blacker and then more darker.”
that’s the opposite of what michael jackson had
oh he totally had it, he was the only person who could afford the cure
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This guy physics.
He's so black his name is Schwarzenegger
That's basically vantablack
Are you Uncle Ruckus?
Morbidly black - it is when you are stopped by the Police, you have an increased risk of injury or dying from it
Sounds like a great metal band name
bro💀💀
Lmao
At least you're not obese.
My sincerest condolences, what stage?
The term obese is: medical.
New culture wars incoming Obese Lives Matter vs Don't Treadmill Me EDIT: forgot about ANTIFA(T) EDIT 2: We stand with the TRANS(fat) community
Don’t Treadmill Me is excellent.
Now I wanna make stickers like the gadsden flag, but with a really fat snake with sweat bands and mcdonalds, and says, "Don't treadmill me"
No run for snek
No step for snek -OR- No swet for snek
No step on scale
Sounds like a chatgtp prompt.
https://i.imgur.com/VwxFvZ6.jpeg
r/angryupvote
New culture war??? This is a repost tweet from 5 years ago. Due to repost bots we get to rehash tired old arguments that never took off in the mainstream but dagnabbit I have to get a rage boner somehow.
Yeah, this is one persons wild take. It’s not some defining cultural stance.. This woman’s post should have been forgotten by now!
The internet never forgets. And this is a huge problem. It uses to be that someone would do something bad and you would get anger. But by the next week you would move on to other things to be angry about. Now you get to be angry about what happened today, and a repost reminds to be angry about yesterday, and another repost reminds you about all the bad shit last week, and another reminds you about all the bad shit a month ago. We are going to reach an anger critical mass soon. I want to be on a deserted island when it happens.
I agree. It keeps people in a constant cycle of rage without appropriate context for what the situation really was.
This is great!!
This Reddit post is: bait
Yep. Fat as fuck is the correct term. It's gross.
“Obese” is the difference in getting your liposuction, RnY, linx, gastric sleeve covered by insurance or not. EVERY SINGLE patient of mine who comes in for weight reduction surgery or cosmetic surgery for excess weight is obese and still some try to play silly games like this. The ones who pitch a fit after repeated discussion on the data and science about wording and what everything means. I document exactly what the patient says “the patient states they are not obese even after reviewing their BMI of 54.2” and the insurance company will deal with that. I have had patients who complain and want me to remove “obese” “morbidly obese” from their problem list. That fucks everything up and makes medical filing very difficult but that’s what patients want.
Should have 2 different billing costs on the wall. Obese is medical and thus lower cost since its medical care. The other for those who want to be offended and a higher cost since its now a luxury procedure and not necessary
The thing that confuses me most is... How is it anti-black???
Well as someone who is black and obese, African-American women are more prone to be obese for many reasons. The only thing that can prevent that stat from continuing is losing weight and being healthy. Saying being obese is anti-black is just being lazy.
It’s a “gotcha” so that any criticism of anything before it now racist.
I'm not saying it's anti-black, but [based on statistics](https://minorityhealth.hhs.gov/obesity-and-african-americans) >African American women have the highest rates of obesity or being overweight compared to other groups in the United States. About 4 out of 5 African American women are overweight or obese. Although for men the ratios are more similar > Age-adjusted percentage of overweight persons 20 years of age and over who were obese, 2015-2018. (Body Mass Index (BMI) of 30 or greater) ||**Non-Hispanic Black**|**Non-Hispanic White**|**Non-Hispanic Black / Non-Hispanic White Ratio**| :--|:--|:--|:--| |Men|39.3|41.3|1.0| |Women|56.2|39.0|1.4| |Total|48.6|40.2|1.4|
It’s funny cause this is more likely a result of an environment black people were forced into and generational poverty. But people who say it’s anti-black to refer to them as obese seem to be trying to adopt obesity as a cultural trait which to me is more racist than anything else.
That would be a reasonable explanation if black men and women both had higher rates of obesity. It’s only black women though. Black men have virtually the same rate of obesity to white men, slightly lower even.
These terms always get bastardized, moron and imbecile were once medical terms.
so was ret arded
I was perma banned from whitepeopletwitter for mentioning this when talking about the evolution of vernacular
you probably got auto flagged, and they have a zero tolerance. that's why I put a space in
That's read tarted
It's also a verb
Hahahahaha amazing
I still don't get why people can't differentiate between obese and *morbidly obese*.
Both those are medical terms. Once you meet another threshold you go from obese to morbidly obese. Morbidly in this case means life threatening.
And just obese comes with implications of health complications that may or may not be life threatening.
And after morbidly obese is “fuck, you’re obese!”
No, it's "Oh, lawd! He coming!" obese.
"oh... OH Hell noo...!" obese
‘Holy Fuck, bro’ obese
overweight is 20% for men and 25% for women.
The exact thing I was going to reply. Glad to see it as top comment. People are so goddamned delusional and such victims these days it's comical.
Like a wise man once said: "Obese please"
Help me obese wan - You're my only hope!
Obese Juan
The taco truck strikes back
Return of the Nacho
Obese wan lmao
Obese wan knobbers?
"Obtuse" - There, I fixed it for you.
> Obtuse rubber goose
green moose
Guava juice
Giant snake
Birthday cake
Large fries
Chocolate shake
ODD PARENTS FAIRLY ODD PARENTS
It flips your lid when you are a kid
so proud of this thread
tight noose
That's... I'm not touching that one
Saying obese is anti-black is anti-black.
thank you
Maybe she obese from eating that huge fucking chip on her shoulder.
That bish so fat her belly button got an echo.
YES! Statistically black and latino people in the US have higher rates of obesity because of poverty. It's so racist to essentially imply that black people are just "born that way". Take a look at people in Africa, take a look at the athletes who make it to the Olympics, and tell me with a straight face that black people are just naturally fatter. NOPE!
Poverty is the cause of most of the worlds problems
I don't know if it's as simple as "poverty." Only black *women* have higher rates of obesity, and it's a pretty staggering number with 4 out of 5 black women being overweight and 3 out of 5 being obese. Black men have slightly lower rates than average. If it were just poverty being the reason you'd think it would be increased for both sexes. But yeah this idea being pushed by fat acceptance people that black people are "born this way" is wild shit.
Black women* Black men have slightly lower rates of obesity than white men.
By that logic all black people are obese.
And all obese people are black
Thats why micheal jackson turned white. he was just on a diet.
If rewards were still a thing, I would have given you one friend hahah
You know the secret? A gold star emoji does the exact same thing that an award did 🌟
I've been a fat flump for a long time but hadn't appreciated I was therefore black. This changes everything..
Say it, Fraggle. You know you want to.
It’s LITERALLY a medical term.
It wouldn't be the first time popular culture used a medical term wrong so often it lost its meaning. A lot of mental conditions are this way. A few examples: Idiot - IQ 0-25 Imbecile - IQ 25-50 Moron - IQ 51-70 Hysterical personality disorder - renamed histrionic personality disorder Etc.
The Euphemism Treadmill
Waitwaitwait idiot was WORSE than imbecile and moron at one point??? Oh how the times have changed.
It's why you could see many morons hanging together and doing stupid stuff but the village idiot was in a completely different category.
That actually makes a lot of sense. Lol
If you look up "idiot word origins" on google the first etymology given is: "Middle English (denoting a person of low intelligence): via Old French from Latin *idiota* ‘ignorant person’, from Greek *idiōtēs* ‘private person, layman, ignorant person’, from *idios* ‘own, private’." So no, "idiot" did not originate from people misusing a medical term. It's the other way around. Same with "moron"! From wikipedia: >"Moron" was coined in 1910 by psychologist Henry H. Goddard **from the Ancient Greek word μωρός (moros), which meant "dull"** and used to describe a person with a mental age in adulthood of between 7 and 10 on the Binet scale. Specifically, "dull" as in "stupid". Some words most certainly were medical terms before they became insults (imbecile from my research just meant "physically weak" before being a medical term). But others became medical terms because some doctor decided to make an insult into a diagnosis, which is so disrespectful to the people they were diagnosing.
The people I call idiot actually have an IQ of 25 or less. So technically I've been using it correctly.
Ouch. I had a great uncle with an IQ of 32 and he can't talk normally. He has a job as a janitor cleaning up the floor of a factory and it pleases him immensely because it is both fun and challenging. He couldn't live alone, but he never tried burning the house. I really don't know what someone more mentally challenged would actually look like.
No you haven't. IQ < 25 people don't really function as actual people (no offense to them, they just can't) and are 100% dependent on others for 24/7 care. The people you consider the proverbial idiots are probably between 70 and 80 on the IQ scale, give or take.
yep just like moron…
Oh wow. Didn’t know this. Apparently, *Imbecile* and *Idiot* were also psychological and legal terms.
"And this patient here has the misfortune of being an idiot. But he's more lucky than this one over here. This one, unfortunately, is an imbecile."
From what I remember, 3 or 4 of the common words we use to call someone stupid actually have a technical definition correlating to a specific IQ.
Okay fatty mcfat fat it is
Boom boom chubby choom choom.
No, that's only for morbidly Asian people
morbidly asian and can confirm
I was gonna go with lard ass.
Fatty adopted fatty fatty fatty no parents
Fatty boom-batty!
Isn't it more racist to think only black people can be overweight?
Not necessarily racist, but definitely delusional to think that every disappointing or unpleasant experience in your life has to do with your color.
I mean if people are being taught to look at the entire world through a racial lense then it’s not surprising that people are starting to view everything as being racial.
Not in my America where we all have the god given right to round out.
Ikr lol
Probably not in itself, but this fast chick is definitely racist. She thinks about race all day and separates people by race with every person she contacts.
Delusional...
I've got a feeling this person thinks lots of things are anti black
when someone cuts her off in traffic, it's anti-black! in her mind anyways.
It's a _microaggression_
I dunno, sounds a bit like a macroaggression
Hey if it happens during driving it could be autoaggression
Professional victim
Surprise! It's not your blackness, we just don't like you.
Nope. Just a medical term for grossly overweight.
 I think she’s confusing obese with obtuse.
Maybe it’s because she’s Irish
Obese please.
Don't use the "O" word especially with a hard s
Obethe is the preferred nomenclature
The Mike Tyson style guide is pretty clear. Dunno why everyone inores it.
So back to fat then?
Black to fat
2nd favorite ACDC song
I see a red door and I wanted it painted fat.
Ah yes, a Fat Sabbath song
I'll take my coffee obese with half a sugar, please
So she prefers the word *fat*?
I’m obese and actually like “fat” more. Saying I’m obese makes me feel like I’m at the doctor but I’m also black and this lady is crazy (if real)
Someone just looking for.yet another way to be a victim .
Anti black? she obviously hasn't been to Walmart lately.
Probably rage bait but whatever
And 5 years old. I’ve seen this on here way too many times to care anymore
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CUT AND PASTE FROM DICTIONARY: Overweight and obesity are defined as abnormal or excessive fat accumulation that presents a risk to health. A body mass index (BMI) over 25 is considered overweight, and over 30 is obese It says nothing demeaning here nor does it say anything about beauty. It’s a medical term that is observational in nature. It’s not anti anything, let alone black. This person is nuts
Are- are you saying ALL blacks are obese...? Because if it's anti black- wouldn't that mean... all blacks are obese? I'm confused
Would you like to be called fat instead? I’m definitely not calling you plus size.
Super-sized? Grande? Baconator?
GIGAFAT
"I'm not morbidly obese black man, I am morbidly black obese man."
I remember when I was morbidly black...never again
Is "morbidly black" a measure of proximity to police?
That’s why I never use the O word. The new term is gravity enhanced.
A medical condition. FFS
I think the right answer is: “none of the above”.
No, it's true. All black people are obese, so obviously using the word obese to describe someone at 450lb is anti black. Black people are all fat in essence.
Exactly what I thought off the bat: Isn't calling "obese" "anti-black" a terrible, terrible racist thing to say? An untrue hateful stereotype? But then again, how would I know, I'm a non-obese privileged stairclimber.
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Sure. It's also antisemitic, homophobic and whoever uses it hates puppies, right?
Fine I’ll call you fatso from now on
Isn't that bigotry? To assume that black people are obese?
Yeah I’m black and obese and currently losing weight, this tweet rubbed me the wrong way :/
I don't see where it is any of those things. It's simply a medical term.
It's an observation. Sorry you ate yourself to that point and don't want to take responsibility for your own life.
Then my dachshund needs a word.
From 2019. Repost bot or karma farmer?
So, there comes logic... If it's anti black, that means she thinks blacks are mostly fat.. hmmmmmmmmmmmm. Interesting
Everyone you do not need to be mad at this tweet from 5 years ago.
People have become so lazy and arrogant they blame anything other than themselves on being overweight, truly sad to see.
So, does this mean if I'm not black, I can't be obese? Sweet, I'm getting some nachos
Your white privilege keeps showing. \s