OTOH, there's the "healthy at any size" idea that seems to encourage obesity, at least in effect, if not in purpose. I have to wonder if this is another aspect of that woke culture you speak of.
Well, yes, that part is. They call it "fat shaming" and lose their minds if you even hint at someone being overweight or suggest that being overweight isn't particularly healthy or attractive.
It's not that it's ok to bully someone who is overweight. But for a group that wants you to believe there is tens of thousands of different genders, the woke have a rather extreme binary view of the world. If you don't accept that that 600 pound guy wolfing down half a dozen large cheese pizzas every single day is a beautiful, healthy, wonderful human being, then you're the worst, most bigoted kind of person imaginable. (Naturally this only applies as long as said 600 pound man doesn't say anything on Twitter that enrages the mob.) There is nothing anywhere in the middle.
Right, so maybe it's intended? Isn't it possible that some general presented this as a feint?
Nope. You're only fooling yourself if you think the intention with this insanity was simply to trick Russia, China, and everyone else who hates our guts into believing we're weak. There's nothing at all in it for us to do that and a lot that could work against us. Also, Biden isn't exactly running on all cylinders these days, and frankly I don't believe military strategy was his forte even when he was.
With all due respect: wut? Sigh, this'll turn into "well it's more a general thing and not just this one thing"
Actually that one was outright stated to be the case something like three, maybe four years ago I think in one of the many self important papers that far left professors and academics like to publish. I remember it because I remember thinking at the time I saw it that it had to be a joke. Like 20 years ago someone who just lost an argument might say "Oh, sure, if you wanna use logic then I guess that's true." But they weren't joking.
I'm also fairly sure (but not 100%) that it was among the items listed as part of that horrible "elements of white culture" piece or whatever it was called that the Smithsonian did a little while back. Right up there alongside things like individualism, punctuality, work ethic, sleep, etc.
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