thin people hate being told they don’t have moral superiority over fat people; that their bodies—& the food associated with their bodies—are not “better”; that fat people are not inept, and therefore people who just “couldn’t become thin.”

that’s their problem, not mine.

it is not by happenstance that foods that are “moral,” “better,” “good” are foods most often associated with (and afforded to) white/thin/middle class or rich people.

that is an intentional act of anti-Black, anti-fat, capitalistic violence.

i made this thread knowing the type of response it would get because thin people (and some fat people) hate hearing that when we call foods “junk,” we moralize food and therefore moralize some bodies (& make other bodies immoral). https://twitter.com/dashaunlh/status/1325800149411639296

you cannot get mad at Keke and then turn around and get mad at me for saying that food should not be called moral or immoral; good or bad; junk or healthy. Keke’s tweet is a product of this line of thought.

it makes no sense to talk about food deserts and food insecurity if where you draw the line is at fat Black people demanding that our bodies not be seen as immoral—we are disproportionately at the crux of this crisis.

unlike many of the people in my mentions, i spend most of my days reading about all of this. on fatness, on Blackness, on food deserts, on (im)morality. that’s my work.

you all are tweeting with a piece of knowledge from your 7th grade biology class.

as explained here, “morality” and “food” cannot be separated because the birth of diet culture—the thing that helps sustain food deserts—comes from someone who knew the two were linked. https://twitter.com/dashaunlh/status/1325859427413598209

as explained here, diet culture is not about anything more than eradicating fatness and fat bodies. it’s eugenics; ecocide; ecological genocide. https://twitter.com/dashaunlh/status/1325857140930703364

if you care about food deserts, environmental racism, environmental justice, you must ALSO care about fat liberation and fat justice. it’s very simple.

to not care about the latter is to make null your care for the former.