Calling someone fat could be made a hate crime in Britain
"Obese" is OK but "fat" is not????
As playground taunts go, it must be the oldest in the book. But calling someone ‘fatty’ should be deemed a hate crime, MPs warn today.
The Government should consider putting ‘appearance-based discrimination’ on a legal par with race and sexual discrimination, a report by the all-party parliamentary group on body image suggests.
The Equalities Act 2010 makes it unlawful to harass, victimise or discriminate against anyone because of their race, gender, sexual orientation, age, or disability.
Stop! Calling someone fat should become a hate crime on a par with racial or sexual discrimination, a new report suggests
Stop! Calling someone fat should become a hate crime on a par with racial or sexual discrimination, a new report suggests
The report, Reflections on Body Image, published today, recommends ‘a review into the scale of the problem of appearance-based discrimination’.
It says: ‘This may include exploring whether an amendment to the Equalities Act would be the most appropriate way of tackling discrimination.’
The report also calls for the NHS’s controversial weigh-in for children to be scrapped because it wrongly labels many youngsters as obese and could lead to bullying.
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A shame it takes a law to try to make people at least civil to one another.
ReplyDeleteas usual liberals are more concerned with words than actions (such as violence).
ReplyDeleteactions speak louder than words
ReplyDelete"Political correctness is a far greater threat to our freedom and liberty than is terrorism..."
ReplyDeleteAnnon 2:48 POLITICAL CORRECTNESS is a form socialism
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ReplyDeletelaws against murder do not stop murder. How will civility come about with laws?
Well, those who would go as far as murder may be fewer in number than those who might be persuaded by laws not to be just rude to other people.
ReplyDeleteassnon 4:46
ReplyDeletewhere does it stop? should it be a crime if you don't say "excuse me" after burping? why or why not?
Funny, they same liberals screaming about bullying and "hate speech" have no problem telling me "I hope you die" when I smoke outside.
ReplyDelete11:46 keep your loud music to yourself moron.
ReplyDeleteAnnon 11:46 if your going to use toilet talk then please FLUSH YOUR MOUTH
ReplyDeletehttp://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/TopStories/20120603/toronto-police-eaton-centre-shooting-investigation-120603/
ReplyDeleteShooting in Toronto, police too PC to release a description of a suspect. Guess its better to let people die than offend
What a beautiful smile you have. OOOPPS, a hate crime - I just made a comment about someone that is 100% 'appearance-based'. That must make everyone else around feel inferior. How hateful!
ReplyDeleteI guess that means No more of the FAT LADY that make her appearnce when the oprea is over
ReplyDeleteAll I see is some fools setting up children to be hauled to jail for typical schoolyard taunts.
ReplyDelete"You evidently have a childishly chauvinist view of history, and probably of everything else!"
ReplyDeleteHey, that's conservatism for you.
Hey can anyone rmemebr FATTY,FATTY TU BY FORE? and what about SKINNY & FATTY?
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