but it does show it is possible even with your body working against you

Exactly my point. You don't just magically become fat

Well, hopefully only good things from here on now. Once you start your treatment

A reason all this talk of "privilege" really rankles with me is that really health and wealth are the only privileges. And this shit about skin colour or eating too many pizzas steals focus away from the real issues such as safeguarding our health or making sure people have roofs over their heads.

the most unfortunate side effect is the divirtion of aiming for strength

You mean how it valourizes victimhood? Or makes a virtue of victimhood?

people strive to be the biggest victim, over becoming as strong as possible

diverts people away from becoming strong

Sure

essentially ensuring the maximising of their own suffering

Hmm, most of it is pseudo-suffering though, that was my point. Having black skin is not a problem. Having cancer is.

yeah

But I know what you mean though, it's the mentality it injects.

i find gaad sad has a good hypothesis

that its a mass case of munchausen syndrome by proxy

Ha! yeah, good way to put it!

where people are using the "oppression" of other people to garner attention for themselves on the behalf of these minorities

regardless of wether these minorities agree with their beleifs of oppresion or not

i like his term OPS

Ostritch Parasitic Syndrome

how progressivism makes people bury their heads in the sand

even if tis based on teh myth that ostritches bury their heads in teh sand

how it spreads liek an ideological parasite

The latest Sam Harris podcast is a discussion with Coleman Hughes, who's just a philosophy student but has some great thinking on race. He made that point on the podcast that actually many of the "oppressed groups" don't generally agree with the victim status being foisted upon them by the critical theorists/SJWs.

XD

my favourite thing to pull on progressives

When you poll blacks, many of them don't want affirmative action, for example.

is how progressivism itself is a white invention from teh 1st world

its a symptom of peak privledge

Yes, absolutely. Thomas Sowell calls these guys "the anointed", in that they seem to think they have a divine mandate to engineer society to their tastes.

fuck critical race/gender theory

great for studying how these people think

crap for applying to any aspect of reality

Problem is it's graduates from these fields of academia who make up many of the journalists in our media. So they're creating the mass output which the public passively tunes into and it effects the broader culture. It shapes people's worldviews. Sounds silly to say but us here are the "woke" or "red-pilled" minority in that we're aware of this going on. Most people are oblivious to who controls the message they hear.

yeah we are defs in teh minority compared to these academic circles

but i know alot of people not in those circles that are wise to those shenanigans

BBC News website is a case in point. I've witnessed it become increasingly colonised by the critical theory mob in recent years and now it's just pure propaganda output.

on top of some that are in those academic circles that are also wise to the shennanigans

XD yeah cant argue that

Sure. Few can do anything about it though. Jordan Peterson is a bit of a lone wolf on that front.

propaganda parading as objective news