by Cullen Linebarger, The Gateway Pundit:
We already know actual journalism died years ago in the corporate media, seeking clickbait and woke lies over laboriously seeking the truth. But Time Magazine may have achieved the pinnacle of media indolence and delusion on Thursday by claiming that exercise is racist.
The failing rag interviewed Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, the associate professor of history at New York’s The New School about her new book “Fit Nation: The Gains and Pains of America’s Exercise Obsession.” The overriding premise of her book is that exercise started as a pastime for white Americans to strengthen their race to counteract growing immigration and the end of slavery.
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The White Supremacist Origins of Exercise, and 6 Other Surprising Facts About the History of U.S. Physical Fitnesshttps://t.co/SRwSLRpnCV
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Petrzela claims Americans previously viewed obesity as a net positive because it signified “affluence.” Wealthier individuals, after all, had access to nourishment that the rest of the country could only dream of.
“Until the 1920s or so, to be what would be considered today fat or bigger, was actually desirable and actually signified affluence—which is like the polar opposite of today, when so much of the obesity epidemic discourse is connected to socio-economic inequality and to be fat is often to be seen as to be poor.”
Hot Air writer David Strom, however, points out how fallacious this argument is. From Strom:
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