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Hamilton ’18 Op-Ed: What Good in Body-Shaming a Body-Shamer?
Sarah Hamilton ’18 penned an op-ed in Minnesota’s Star-Tribune on the disturbing pervasiveness of body-shaming in today’s political discourse—from both sides of the aisle.
While President Trump has time and again made insensitive comments related to body-type, Hamilton writes, his critics have often done the very same thing in reference to him.
“What good comes from shaming a body-shamer?... It is easy to demonize everything Trump says, but much harder to accept that we may be perpetuating the same system of marginalization.”