The increase of fascism across the United States and the rise of fatphobic, pro-skinny propaganda might seem like two different subjects that have no correlation, but they both, in fact, go hand-in-hand. Fascist regimes and fatphobia are inextricably linked, a term writer and trans theorist Da’Shaun Harrison calls “body fascism”.
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The infatuation over weight loss,
#SkinnyTok, and the onslaught on GLP-1 propaganda is white supremacy giving us a very clear sign: As we descend further into a fascist, authoritarian regime, the control over how our bodies look is a tool of how these oppressive systems are upheld.
White supremacy likes uniformity, where nothing and no one gets to be out of place — and if you do not meet the white supremacist standard, the standard of thinness and desirability, you are casted to the side, ignored, and villanized. Under white supremac...