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Grendel  ·  3489 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: If you want to steal some reddit users, this is your chance

Personally, I just want free speech to be... free. That means that I recognise people's right to say mean things. I'd also like to say that, although making fun of fat people can hardly be considered a good use of this right, the subreddit in question was just one side of a coin. You've probably heard of the "fat acceptance/healthy at any size" movement that's been growing bigger and louder recently, and I think subreddits like fatpeoplehate are partly a reaction to this attempt to make obesity look normal.