{"id":3336,"date":"2011-05-11T16:56:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T16:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2011\/05\/meanwhile-the-hip-bigotry-for-the-enlightened-american.html"},"modified":"2011-05-11T16:56:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-11T16:56:00","slug":"meanwhile-the-hip-bigotry-for-the-enlightened-american","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2011\/05\/meanwhile-the-hip-bigotry-for-the-enlightened-american.html","title":{"rendered":"Meanwhile, the hip bigotry for the enlightened American"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Continues to gain steam<\/a>.\u00a0 In a retraction, Illinois congressman Shane Cultra assures us he really doesn\u2019t want to impose a special tax on parents of grotesquely and disgustingly fat obese kids.\u00a0 Yet he can\u2019t just say he was taken out of context without adding:
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<\/em>I am sensitive to the need to reduce childhood obesity. But I don\u2019t believe a new tax one everyone who buys juice, soda and energy drinks will accomplish the goal. Parents have to take some responsibility.<\/em>\u201cYep, because no matter what the reason for obesity, no matter how genetic the basis, it must be stopped!\u00a0 Those who are obese and raise fat kids must be punished.\u00a0 Of course the fact that some may be genetically predisposed toward being overweight is irrelevant.\u00a0 It\u2019s\u00a0not like being physiologically predisposed to a sexual preference that is medically shown to be leading to death and misery or anything.\u00a0 It\u2019s fat, sloppy fat, obnoxious fat, grotesque fat people.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

When you stop focusing on one group to feel contempt for, I can\u2019t help but believe a society needs to pick up another.\u00a0 Bigotry is, after all, the life blood of any civilization.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Continues to gain steam.\u00a0 In a retraction, Illinois congressman Shane Cultra assures us he really doesn\u2019t want to impose a special tax on parents of grotesquely and disgustingly fat obese kids.\u00a0 Yet he can\u2019t just say he was taken out of context without adding: I am sensitive to the need to reduce childhood obesity. 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