Socialism 2026 Chicago event discussion
di Jolyon: Sean Hannity
Jamie points out a strange moment at Socialism 2026 in Chicago where speakers labeled GLP-1 drugs as tools for genociding fat people and advancing body fascism. One presenter argued that BMI, gyms, and weight-loss medications are designed to police Black fat flesh while propping up capitalism. Another figure suggested the political left should stop clinging to the fantasy of being fitter than the fascists. The proposed revolutionary program involves keeping excess weight, calling scales Nazi tools, and treating Ozempic like the Luftwaffe. Despite these claims, many people are purchasing these drugs because they work, reduce knee pain, and lower A1C levels. Jamie argues that any ideology requiring obesity to survive is ultimately fighting metabolism rather than oppression.
Trascrizione (en)
When it's time to attack capitalism in America, I didn't think our soft bellies would be the key. Evidently, the GLP-1 weight loss drugs such as Ozempic, for those people that find themselves in a gym, shaving their chest, trying to get their deltoys defined, you, ladies and gentlemen, are, drumroll please, a fascist. And part of the problem, fitness needs to be attacked with fatness. Here it is. GOP-1s just mark a new phase in body fascism. The political deployment of GOP-1s is fascistic, not because individuals take them, but because the conditions under which they become necessary are shaped by a world fixated on genociding fat people. This is a structural critique that asks, what happens when the conditions produced by capitalism, by public health, by the state apparatus, and by anti-Black desire align around a single bodily ideal that leaves little to no DIABETES, IT'S NOT A BODY THAT DOES. IT'S A BODY THAT DOESN'T DO. IT'S NO ROOM FOR DIVERGENCE AND PUNISHES ANYBODY THAT DOES. WHEREAS EARLIER DRUGS WERE OFTEN ASSOCIATED WITH VANITY OR ADDICTION, GLP-1'S ARE POSITIONED AS RESPONSIBLE MEDICINE PROMISING RELIEF RATHER THAN RESTRAIN. ALL RIGHT. WHAT? THAT'S JUST NUTS. JUST NUTS. THE GLP-1, ALL DOCTORS, YOU KNOW, MOST OF THE DOCTORS LOVE IT. BUT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH WHAT WAS HE EVEN TALKING ABOUT?
