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In reply to the discussion: I used to be fat [View all]roguevalley
(40,656 posts)I am like my old self. A few thoughts on this mess about Christie... They won't comfort you but it might help explain a lot of the reaction.
In the past, when greed was portrayed, it was always a fat person. For the good or bad, greed was personified with a rich fat person.
I think people hate Christie so much, they don't care. THey just hate all of his being, like Rush. If they weren't fat, they would still be hated this much. The same people who hate him this way would never turn around and take on anyone else over the same issue. I think for some, a visceral fragment of an old paradigm is part and parcel of this. Being fat myself for a long time, I get it. I don't particularly like it but for Christie, I will let it pass. That is my thinking on this. Rush, Christie ... they want to starve the world yet they stand there sagging with their own greed and hate made physical. Just a thought.