REALLY BIG TRIGGER WARNING: Our society is churning out unthinking fascist bigots on an industrial scale and I feel compelled to describe this phenomenon in gory, close-up detail. Good luck stomaching today’s blog, people.

So, regrettably, the Giant Crabs of the Andromeda star-systems did not invade today, wiping out all life on this blue-green ball-full-of-dumb-people, which means (sunrise, sunset) it’s time for today’s blog.

As I usually do to get myself in the right mood for these entries, I went for a jaunt through the Fat Acceptance tag in order to find the people who abuse the tag- the anti-FA crowd- like the bunch of whingeing little man-bitches they are. And of course, there was the usual crowd of barely-ambulant cock-ends proclaiming that “ugh! Fat is unhealthy! And other people’s health is somehow my business!”… while giving themselves an aneurism (I fucking hope) from the all the misdirected, judgmental, bigoted faux-rage they’re forcing their miniscule brains to cough up like so much ideological phlegm. With any luck, the cunts will also give themselves Repetitive Strain Injury what with all that fucking finger-wagging they’re doing.

I’ve already explain why these people are not only wrong but also stupid (and possibly authentically subhuman, like a gorilla or the less-spotted Shitting Bonobo) at least fifty times, so if you want my full argument on that score, you can hit my archive (and also like some of my older posts while you’re there, because, y'know, web-traffic). But that’s not what I want to talk about today.

No, what I wanted to talk about a little is a realisation I’ve come to about these dickheads (and not just the fat-haters, but also the racists, homophobes, sexists and other bigoted backwards yeehaws… but let’s stay focused on the fat-haters shall we, since kicking the shit out them literally never gets old). The realisation is that they’re not really people in any meaningful sense of that word. I realise, of course, that in the eyes of Tumblr, casually dehumanising someone like I just did is considered just about the worst possible thing you can do in a debate, but bear with me, I’m going somewhere with this (also, the day I start caring about the feelings of bigots whose existence is actively making the world worse is the day you, my lovely readers, will know for sure that I’ve been replaced by the Pod People from Outer Space). You see, an actual, real-life person has an analytical faculty. They can look at the world and at themselves and see why they feel the way they do about certain things. They have at least some ability to recognise the prejudices and social inputs that affect their opinion. A person is capable of differentiating from a natural, or self-formed opinion and one that we have simply been told until we believe it. And this faculty- this ability to pierce the layers of social bullshit that swaddle us- is something that the fat-haters simply don’t have.

They’ve been told “this group of people is bad- you have permission to hate them”. They’ve been told “if you have a certain body-type, the only emotion you’re allowed to feel is shame”. They’ve been told “this way of life is correct, regardless of how much pain it might cause or how little the people we’re trying to thrust it on actually want it”. And they’ve not only accepted it, they’ve fucking embraced it. Most people, you see- and I’m talking about any random bumcrack in the street here, not just people who actively rebel- may not think to consciously question the steam of toxic bullshit that’s been stamped onto their consciousness, but they do at least cross-reference it subconsciously against the stuff they’ve learned about respecting other people and personal boundaries. That’s why most people don’t yell abuse at perfect strangers in the street, or go online to actively propagate prejudice. For the fat-haters (and yes, other species of prejudiced twat), even this limited, low-level analytical function has been suspended. They’ve given themselves so completely to hateful opinions that they’ve been told that they don’t really have any of their own. They’re just vessels for the toxic, backward tripe that’s been hammered into them from the word go. When Fascist ‘thinkers’ (and I use that term loosely) spoke of a New Man who, rather than being an individual could be filled up with the unreasoning ideology of his state and be subsumed into the totalitarian hole, this is the exact kind of psychopathology they were talking about. The casual prejudices of modern society have managed to inadvertently emulate Hitler’s and Mussolini’s most disturbing wet dreams, and the worst thing is this unadulterated fuckery isn’t even deliberate: it’s just the result of a lot of very stupid people, in chorus with a lot of people who stand to profit from said stupidity, being allowed to say a lot of very stupid things for far too long. And the result is a truly terrifying quantity of the Fascist Man thought dead in the first half of the twentieth century- a terrifying quantity of blank-slate, unthinking unpeople, waiting to be filled up with whatever the flavour-of-the-month is in the world of bigoted hate-spewing.

Sorry to depress the fuck out of you. I didn’t know I was going to type half of that until I did. Guess I best go back to the top and add a fucking trigger warning lest I singlehandedly cause mass outbreaks of weepings.