No, this isn't a law yet here in America, but no doubt it'll be on the agenda of the feelgood PC police sooner or later.Saying Someone Fat Refers to Contempt:
The Korea Times : "Telling someone they are fat shows a kind of contempt, the court said Tuesday.
The Suwon District Court fined a hospital administrator, identified by initial J, 300,000 won for making derogatory comments about one of the nurses at his workplace."The 66-year-old man allegedly told the 38 year-old nurse last January in the hospital lobby in front of the nurse’s colleagues, ``How can you nurse someone when you are so fat? You are a patient, too and if you don’t look after yourself, you will die.’’
Many people have been convicted of showing contempt by swearing at a person, but it is difficult to prove contempt when a person talks about another’s appearance. continued
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