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Kanye West railed against the pro-fat movement, which is
afflicting black Americans at a higher rate than any other
group, Thursday night in a prime-time interview with Tucker
Carlson.

In their wide-ranging discussion, West, a rapper and a rising
icon in the fashion industry who is also known as Ye, slammed
the media’s obsessive efforts to normalize obesity in the 21st
century.

“Lizzo works with my trainer,” West said. “When Lizzo loses 10
pounds and announces it, the bots, that’s a term for people like
telemarketer callers on Instagram, they attack her for losing
weight because the media wants to put out a perception that
being overweight is the new goal when it’s actually unhealthy.”

“Let’s get aside the fact of whether it’s fashion, en vogue,
which it’s not. Let’s just — or if someone thinks it’s
attractive, to each his own,” West continued. “It’s actually
clinically unhealthy, and for people to promote that, it’s
demonic.”

Carlson pressed the celebrity on why the media and industry at
large are so consumed with glorifying obesity.

“Why do you think they would want to promote unhealthiness among
the population?” Carlson asked.

“It’s a genocide of the black race,” West said. “They want to
kill us in any way they can.”

The notoriously pro-life pop star went on to trash Planned
Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider, and the
organization’s roots in “eugenics.”

“I believe that if we saw ourselves as more — if we saw
ourselves as a people, and not a race, then we would treat our
people better,” West said.

That the media’s compulsive promotion of obesity is motivated by
anti-black racism is a stretch. Coverage framing obesity as
healthy is far likelier a consequence of apathy towards weight
gain among Americans, at least 66 percent of whom are
considered, at minimum, overweight. Nearly 42 percent of U.S.
adults are categorically obese, according to the Centers for
Disease Control. But on the broad issue of the pro-fat movement
dubbed “body positivity,” West makes an important point in an
area where racial dynamics are still at play.

By the modern left’s standards, the media’s embrace of the pro-
fat movement is institutional racism. CDC data shows black and
Hispanic minorities have the highest age-adjusted prevalence of
obesity of any group. Fifty percent of black Americans are
considered obese in addition to nearly 46 percent of Hispanics.

Meanwhile, there is no shortage of examples of bizarre and
growing hostility towards the active promotion of healthy
lifestyles — even when Lizzo, an icon of the deadly pro-fat
movement, does something productive for her own health. And the
pro-fat movement is deadly. Those who are overweight or obese
are at a higher risk of high blood pressure, cancers, diabetes,
stroke, coronary heart disease, breathing problems, high
cholesterol, and mental illness to name a few, all while
rendered sedentary in the immediate future.

Pop culture, however, continues to dismiss the American obesity
crisis as not a crisis at all. Magazines from Self to
Cosmopolitan have published cover series pitching obesity to
women. Just last month, California’s largest school district
published a video to its more than half a million students,
shaming those who suggest nutritious choices over “bad food”
such as donuts. Never mind that 1 in 5 children nationwide is
already considered obese.

West’s commentary on the issue is a sharp break from the growing
list of cultural influencers who grow their followings by
capitalizing on a sick and apathetic population.

https://thefederalist.com/2022/10/07/whos-really-fighting-to- make-black-lives-healthier-and-better-kanye-west-or-lizzo/

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