The New Bigotry
It’s one of the last forms of bigotry openly accepted in this PC age. The derision of fat people. And now governments are getting into the act.
New Zealand immigration officials are keeping a U.K. wife from joining her husband “down under” because they say she is too fat, the Daily Mail reports.
British citizens Rowan Trezise, 33, and Richie Trezise, 35, are living apart as she tries desperately to shed the pounds needed to comply with New Zealand guidelines that immigrants maintain a healthy BMI, or body mass index.
BMI is a weight-height ratio that estimates percentage of body fat. The New Zealand Immigration Service requires all applicants to undergo a complete medical examination, which includes body size measures like “waist circumference.”
The regulations were supposedly put into place for budget reasons. The country’s health care system cannot afford to open its doors to overweight immigrants, a spokesman for New Zealand’s Fight the Obesity Epidemic explained to the Daily Mail.
This after it has been revealed that being overweight isn’t always unhealthy. In fact, you can be overweight and healthy. The BMI is a false method of judging people’s weight.
But between airlines charging passengers more and governments denying them visas we have a new form of segregation. One that is sanctioned by governments who are eager to push the “obesity epidemic” theory so they can cut people out of insurance plans. It’s yet another agenda to cut more people out of entitlement rolls.
You have to love it. They say we need socialized medicine because not everyone is getting adequate health care, then then first thing they do is start using it to deny people health care.
Posted by on 11/18 at 04:36 PMThat’s how bureaucracies work. Socialism is a scam. A ponzi scheme that benefits those on top and forces everyone to participate at the point of a gun.
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