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My Statements About Trans Fats Were Wrong And Hurtful
Recently I wrote a (since deleted) blog post about my experience on the “keto” diet. In it, I wrote that a diet rich in fats was both healthful and useful for weight loss. However, I also made a distinction between “healthy fats such as those found in nuts and fish” and so-called “trans fats, which raise cholesterol and increase the risk of heart disease, stroke and type 2 diabetes.”
These words were not merely clinically inaccurate but hurtful acts of violence. It pains me terribly to think of the danger in which I put the readers of my reckless words. That I am an older man who grew up in a much fitter and more active era than today’s slackers and 24/7 social-media users is no excuse. I now know that my words constituted an act of violence against tater tots, nondairy creamer, women, pre-prepared cake frosting, microwave popcorn, people of color, vegetable shortening, fried fast food, the undocumented, frozen pizza, stick margarine, Muslims, pie crusts, fried chicken, the differently abled, cookie dough, onion rings, and the gays.
My thoughtless words were not only wrong from a scientific perspective but from a moral one. Oprah, Rosie O’Donnell, the director of the Food and Drug Administration, the leadership at the National Association To Advance Fat Acceptance, and more than 200,000 (and counting) Twitter users have helped me to understand what should have been obvious to me at the time: trans fats are fats, full-stop.
I am also learning that apologizing and promising to do better, while necessary, is not sufficient. That is why I am going on a “listening tour” of the United States. No, I won’t be performing my standup comedy or dispensing hateful nutritional facts. In fact, I won’t be speaking at all, but listening to those whose lives will never be the same after reading my irresponsible words.
Some in Hollywood have privately suggested that I ignore what they call the “clinically insane mob” for the approximately 72 hours it takes for them to get bored and move onto new and easier targets, like Seth Rogen. I reject this. Instead, I will be taking time to stay quiet, away from social media, and refraining from all press interviews. If and when I return to public life it will only be after I have listened, learned, and atoned.
Some will say that I don’t deserve the opportunity at redemption, let alone resumption of my weekly gig emceeing New Material Mondays at the Chuckle Hut in Garden Grove.
To such people, I can only say “I feel your pain.”
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I’m sorry, but on behalf of the trillions of trans fat molecules everywhere, most of whom I’ve spoken to personally, I do not accept your apology. Many of them were too traumatized to clog arteries or increase inflammation for several days.
We’ve had it with you privileged cis-lipid people (he says, looking for that ignore button…).
Cis-lipid!
STOP the FAT SHAMING. All fats shapes are equally beautify. The fat community (SUMPT+) needs to stand together.
* Saturated, Unsaturated, Mono-saturated, Polysaturated, Trans…
No, your “apology” is not acceptable. You were not humble enough, you need to grovel more.
Sorry I misunderstood. I thought we were talking about fat trans.
Thatsa good one, Boss!!
Fat lives matter!
Inspiring the great Deeble! Well done, HR.
I peel your feign.
Trans fats . . . the next liberal cause célèbre.
Thank you David, for your brutally honest apology . . .
From the David Deeble Master Class on how to boost your Social Credit Score while actually simply taking an offline RV vacation with your wife and kids.
TERN: Transfat Exclusionary Radical Nutritionist.
99.9% of the time, you can tell just by looking.
Perhaps baking 1000 wedding cakes might do the trick.
Not if the couple is of different sexes.
And needless to say it has been taken over by Leftists – assuming it wasn’t conceived by Leftists.
My 11 year old son, who is easily the funniest person in the family, has said that instead of calling people “fat”, he will from now on call them “well-marbled”.
That’s it. That’s his joke.
That is outstanding!
Then transmarbled is when you have fat sucked out of your belly and put in your bum (or if you’re a guy, in your biceps).
That’s hilarious.
Is this satire? It’s so hard to tell these days.
And then I think about the elites who are telling us that meat will be a thing of the past.