# Obese Boy Scouts not allowed to attend Jamboree. Fat discrimination or common sense?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obese-boy-scouts-not-allowed-to-attend-jamboree-fat-discrimination-or-common-sense/663634>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 16, 2013, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obese-boy-scouts-not-allowed-to-attend-jamboree-fat-discrimination-or-common-sense/663634 "2013-07-16T02:49:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Showing post:** 150

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Tequila\_Party](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a6a055/32.png) [@Tequila\_Party](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tequila_Party)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2013, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obese-boy-scouts-not-allowed-to-attend-jamboree-fat-discrimination-or-common-sense/663634/150 "2013-07-18T02:01:55Z")

</div>

> [@Troppus](#):
>
> You’re using it wrong. That phrase is only funny when applied to topics that aren’t about children. Like the complaints about nudity in Super Bowl halftime shows. Get it? That’s the battle cry of entitled parents who believe the entire planet should be sanitized and infantilized for the sake of the children. This isn’t remotely related.
> 
> This topic, in case you need a recap, is about the children. Some of whose best interests need protecting if pushy, grandstanding parents force their potentially dangerous participation in strenuous activity in order to make a stand for fat acceptance.

My point was, that you seemed to ignore the first time I responded to you and again the second time, was that you were wrong. After seeing you in action in multiple threads, I take it that you don’t cotton to having that pointed out much. Again though, you never admitted your error about rides at Disney and now, you can’t seem to grasp that I was illustrating how your rallying cry every post was futile.

Shaming those who think differently than you by tugging at the heart strings of the old adage “Won’t someone think of the children!?” is ludicrous. Some people here feel like these kids shouldn’t be discriminated (their word, I suppose) and that viewpoint is valid without all the syrup.

But keep up the good work. I see you’re winning over people right and left to agree with you.

---

_[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obese-boy-scouts-not-allowed-to-attend-jamboree-fat-discrimination-or-common-sense/663634)._