"As blatant racism has diminished, 'sizism,' the prejudice against fat people, rears its ugly head as the most acceptable and marketable form of discrimination in the Western World," claims E.K. Daufin, an assistant professor at California State University at Los Angeles. Daufin is not alone in her assessment of discrimination against fat people. Susan C. Wooley, director of the eating disorders clinic at the University of Cincinnati, maintains that "we're running out of people we're allowed to hate, and to feel superior to. Fatness is the one thing left that seems to be a person's fault—which it isn't." The National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance (NAAFA), a non-profit organization committed to ending sizism, considers size discrimination a serious threat to the civil rights of millions of overweight Americans

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