Comments on: Moral Panics, Moral Crusades, and the Obesity Folk Devil

By: I am not your cautionary tale | Spilt Milk

I am not your cautionary tale | Spilt Milk — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 10:30:56 +0000

[...] literally use fat as short-hand for bad, wrong, excessive. Fat bodies are ridiculed, dehumanised, demonised and charged with [...]

By: Medieval « Defective Thin Person

Medieval « Defective Thin Person — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 19:15:23 +0000

[...] Of course that’s incompatible with mainline discussion of the obesity crisis, which is a moral panic, and the opposite of science, at any rate indistinguishable from the pseudoscience patter that has [...]

By: The Obesity Epidemic is a Moral Panic, FTW! « Big Liberty

The Obesity Epidemic is a Moral Panic, FTW! « Big Liberty — Wed, 19 May 2010 12:09:37 +0000

[...] The Obesity Epidemic is a Moral Panic, FTW! May 19, 2010 by bigliberty A quick hit today, for anyone who’s still wondering whether the so-called ‘obesity epidemic’ is really a phenomenon rooted in concern over public health, or has reached the fever-pitch of a moral panic: [...]

By: The Mia Freedman Debacle, or, Why Moral Panics Need Strawmen « Big Liberty

The Mia Freedman Debacle, or, Why Moral Panics Need Strawmen « Big Liberty — Thu, 13 May 2010 15:10:24 +0000

[...] the part of a so-called body image advocate to claim that highlighting feederism in the midst of a moral panic where fat people are the folkdevils isn’t harmful to fat people in [...]

By: On Being Pro-Liberty and Anti-Dieting « Big Liberty

On Being Pro-Liberty and Anti-Dieting « Big Liberty — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:17:51 +0000

[...] evidence suggests that dieting doesn’t work. The evidence suggests that we are in a moral panic where fat people play the part of folkdevil. The evidence suggests that the vast majority of fat [...]

By: Case-building: Making Fatties the Deviants « Big Liberty

Case-building: Making Fatties the Deviants « Big Liberty — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 22:01:47 +0000

[...] Making Fatties the Deviants 2009 November 27 by bigliberty In every good moral panic, one needs a deviant group on which to blame the ills of the current moral (financial, political) [...]

By: A short comment about comparing fat and racial prejudice « Big Liberty

A short comment about comparing fat and racial prejudice « Big Liberty — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 13:37:49 +0000

[...] a way that would most clearly represent what I had to say. Additionally, I’ve been studying moral panics and moral crusades as a historical phenomena in the interim, and it has really enlightened me as to how certain [...]

By: Bad Fatty Revolutionary « Big Liberty

Bad Fatty Revolutionary « Big Liberty — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 17:24:54 +0000

[...] The Obesity Epidemic is a moral panic, and the War on Obesity is a moral crusade. The torch-carriers are Healthists. Their weapons are science by press release, and the belief in the moral imperative of health. [...]

By: Libertarians don’t care if you’re fat. « Big Liberty

Libertarians don’t care if you’re fat. « Big Liberty — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:32:54 +0000

[...] are powerful political tools. Since that statement sounded rather strange, I’ll explain: many moral crusades and moral panics gain foothold with an appeal to others that, in their current state, children are somehow being [...]

By: A Nice Follow-Up - Obesity Epi-Panic « Big Liberty

A Nice Follow-Up - Obesity Epi-Panic « Big Liberty — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:18:23 +0000

[...] is not falling” post over at Junkfood Science. I think it serves as a great follow-up to my post this week on the Obesity [...]