By John Loftus
In the lovely cesspool of San Francisco, it’s time to Make Obesity Great Again.
Never mind the poop and dirty drug needles littering the streets; the San Francisco Department of Health seems to want fat citizens to feel comfortable in their own bodies, to feel accepted by society, to feel like they can live their truth without any fear of judgment. To do so, they apparently hired a fat-shaming expert to work as a consultant — two labels that should send chills down your spine — on “weight stigma” and “weight neutrality” — two buzz phrases as hollow as they are silly.
Virgie Tovar, a self-described “plus-size Latina” and “leading expert on weight-based discrimination,” announced Monday she will work with the city’s health department to achieve the aforementioned “weight neutrality,” which, in my estimation, entails yet another feckless waste of taxpayer dollars for some unbelievably stupid liberal theory.
“I’m UNBELIEVABLY proud to serve the city I’ve called home for almost 20 years in this way! This consultancy is an absolute dream come true, and it’s my biggest hope and belief that weight neutrality will be the future of public health,” Tovar wrote on Instagram.
With all due respect to my weight-challenged brothers and sisters in America, you have no business eating up taxpayer dollars working for the city health department to “make weight neutrality … the future of health.” On its face, it is an absurd notion. But it is also a testament to how deluded left-wing ideas have become — and that, somehow, they are still embraced by otherwise normal people.
Once again, a local government is wasting time and resources on a radical agenda for no other reason than to pander to a fringe group of activists — in this case, the anti-fat shaming left. How will “weight neutrality” help city residents become healthier? How will it help the countless drug addicts, homeless, and defecating on every street corner, ever recover and rebuild their lives? I’m sure Tovar has all the answers.
Tovar’s new consulting gig reminds me of an essay by Tom Wolfe, “Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers,” which chronicles the hilarious exchanges between young, militant San Francisco residents who would shake down the white, liberal bureaucrats at the Office of Economic Opportunity and pressure the dorks to divert cash to their preferred ethnic groups. I can imagine Tovar thundering into the Department of Health Office, crashing down some doors, demanding they throw her some cash so she can make PowerPoints about fat-shaming, with neat little sound effects, as well, and feel good about herself. I can also imagine the city bureaucrats quaking in the presence of such a colossal force of nature, such a brilliant mind.
