Cross-posted from my comment in the thread in question:
I’ll be honest, I saw the title "Comrades, time to unlearn the fatphobia we've internalised from society" and immediately negatively reacted to it. I’m still wary that fat acceptance, in the worst cases, lead people to reject losing weight for health reasons like heart disease.
However, a lot of the discourse in the thread have been very enlightening to me. In particular, anti-fatphobia != fat acceptance. Some of the commenters here show how fucking awful fatphobia has traumatized them and actively prevented them from developing healthy relationships with food. I hate to imagine people see this post ratioed and have the same initial reaction I did.
The post, and these kinds of posts, are the shit I like chapo for. People come in as skeptics with the intellectual curiosity and humility to study the discourse or material, and people hold one another to a standard for mutually respectful discussion. Fuck R*ddit circlejerks getting off on hating the people commenting for one position or the other. Criticism is aimed at the positions themselves. The circlejerk is reserved for liberals and the system that fucked people's health. Makes me feel like I'm in a real community with a common enemy y'know. Keep up the good work comrades, hoping to see more sessions like this.
This is a good post