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

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**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")\
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**Author:** ![Troppus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a587f6/32.png) [@Troppus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troppus)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2013, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obese-boy-scouts-not-allowed-to-attend-jamboree-fat-discrimination-or-common-sense/663634/78 "2013-07-16T23:19:57Z")

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> [@brazil84](#):
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> I’m not talking about forcing anyone to do anything. I’m simply criticizing the Boy Scouts’ policy. Assuming that it’s their prerogative to exclude fatties, members of the public are perfectly free to voice objections on computer message boards. That’s my prerogative. (Assuming the operators of those boards permit it, of course.)

Sure it is. But I’ll ask again, why criticize them for declining to serve kids with a BMI above 40 but you’re not criticizing Disney for excluding pregnant women from rides?

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