On Tuesday, my colleague Katie Jerkovich reported on the controversy around Vanity Fair penning a ridiculous and, frankly, odd article pertaining to the right's obsession with protein.
Only, we're not. I don't spend every waking hour thinking about protein, and I don't know anyone else on the right who does... except one of my friends, and he's a personal trainer. There is a common idea among most of us that health is a good thing, and being physically fit is something we should strive for, but it's far from being something that dominates our every thought.
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If there is something on the right that shows increased attention to protein, it has little to do with protein itself and more to do with fitness overall. The only reason the right would focus more on fitness is because the left has spent the last handful of years growing its hostility toward it and becoming anti-fitness.
In fact, it's pretty safe to say that the only fitness-obsessed people in the room are the left, as they've spent a great deal of time and effort attempting to push the idea that being healthy, slim, and eating right is another example of far-right hatred.
The left is, itself, obsessed with creating oppressed subgroups, and one of those groups is fat people. According to the left, you can be "fatphobic," just another social sin on a long list of social sins they made up.
They push ideas such as "beautiful at any size," and even accuse doctors of fat-phobia when they tell people that their obesity is actually threatening their health.
I wish I were kidding, but here's Eric July addressing one of the fat advocates.
Out of shape "personal trainer" says deliberately losing weight is "FATPHOBIC."
— Eric July (@EricDJuly) April 26, 2023
Full video is LIVE on YouTube! https://t.co/irMAw0PaRq pic.twitter.com/p8P31bER16
Here's another woman going off about companies that are "fatphobic."
Food brands that have the word skinny in it and have lower calories are fatphobic pic.twitter.com/n3Ux9UKONF
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) January 19, 2025
If you ever stopped to wonder why the left is so upset about Robert Kennedy Jr.'s MAHA movement, it's not just because he's working under Trump, it's because the man is literally attempting to make our food healthier so we don't wind up being fat, chemical-ridden blobs of flesh that look they would fit right into the Axiom in Wall-E.
Large parts of the left hate the idea that healthy choices are being pushed by anyone, especially in the government itself, because it's literally a potential voting group and activist pool drying up with every pound lost.
And the left definitely wants to push the idea that society is being borderline evil by rejecting anti-health. NPR once covered the Philadelphia "Fat Con," where it finger-wagged at society for not featuring fat people in a positive light enough:
According to the CDC, nearly 40% of the population in the U.S. is overweight, and yet I rarely see myself or my community represented except when discussing weight loss.
The National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance did a quantitative review of one year of national news coverage between Dec. 1, 2021, and Nov. 30, 2022, and found that a mere 48 articles about anti-fatness had been written or published by traditional news sources, and only 24 spoke about fat liberation or justice in any way.
That kind of coverage contributes to the rampant preconceptions and stereotypes that people have about those living in larger bodies.
But this preconception is wildly accurate. Being morbidly obese or overweight isn't good for you. It makes you susceptible to so many diseases, including heart disease, the number one killer of people in the Western world. Obesity was even one of the primary factors of actual COVID-19 deaths.
Yet, leftist states are on record wanting to ban "fatphobia" with discrimination laws.
The issue here is that these fact activists aren't convincing many people to follow them down this path, and as such, a cultural battle has to be waged to get people on board. As you can see, the tactic is the same as many others. They're going to guilt and bully people into fat acceptance. Once they do that, they'll have another powerful advocacy group on their hands that can create a cause for people to get behind, and be used to shift public opinion toward the Democrat Party.
But this is a much tougher sell than all the others. Watching a morbidly obese person struggling to do nearly anything causes a revulsion in people, which is actually pretty natural. The human brain is conditioned to want to separate itself from disease and harm, and understands that high levels of obesity are more apt to becoming diseased. It's a legitimate aversion response from your brain. It's an instinct to reject.
The fat-acceptance activists are fighting an uphill battle here, and we all know how they feel about going uphill.
It would be wrong to say that every person who is on the right has a healthy weight. I could lose a few pounds myself, but the point is that I haven't met anyone who is overtly hostile to the idea of eating better and getting out more. However, I wouldn't say that obsession with it dominates people's thoughts either. I see far more obsession with being fat, staying fat, and making other people fat, on the left.
You know how it goes with the left, though. If they're accusing you of something, it's because they're doing it themselves.
The Left torn down statues of American heroes and founding fathers and instead put up statues of random fat women.
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) May 7, 2025
It’s an intentional uglification and mockery of our great country. pic.twitter.com/OvPpPmvL4U
Need I say more?
