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zzr45 said:
BMI is racist:
www.bbc.co.uk

'Black people need to be included in BMI research'

Is BMI an appropriate measure of health for everyone?
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk

The BBC need to stop giving platforms to morons.
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It's not racist but it is most certainly outdated.

If they had of focused on how people stay fit they would have made a better point.

If you are simply judging someone's weight divided by his or her height then it's going to be askew especially nowadays.

A lot of body builders and modern sports stars in sports like rugby, American football, baseball, track and field etc... push over 220 pounds and there isn't a pick of fat on them.

They really should be adding other factors. Which I always thought they did. So it's really odd.

I remember a news article from a number of years ago from New Zealand about a rugby player being called obese and the piece slated its shortcomings. It was picked up by some American news sites and they did their own pieces on the same topic.
 
SteveSC said:
It's not racist but it is most certainly outdated.

If they had of focused on how people stay fit they would have made a better point.

If you are simply judging someone's weight divided by his or her height then it's going to be askew especially nowadays.

A lot of body builders and modern sports stars in sports like rugby, American football, baseball, track and field etc... push over 220 pounds and there isn't a pick of fat on them.

They really should be adding other factors. Which I always thought they did. So it's really odd.

I remember a news article from a number of years ago from New Zealand about a rugby player being called obese and the piece slated its shortcomings. It was picked up by some American news sites and they did their own pieces on the same topic.
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I absolutely agree, BMI was based on Belgians in the 1830s. It’s outdated in the extreme.

What I do disagree with is the belief that we should create a system that is more palatable to people of a certain ethnicity because they don’t want to be told they’re fat. (Not saying you said that, just to be clear!)
 
zzr45 said:
I absolutely agree, BMI was based on Belgians in the 1830s. It’s outdated in the extreme.

What I do disagree with is the belief that we should create a system that is more palatable to people of a certain ethnicity because they don’t want to be told they’re fat. (Not saying you said that, just to be clear!)
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Agreed.

That article is just silly.
 


A worthwhile watch. I think it'll make some rethink the standpoint that racism isn't a massive modern day issue. We've (and I mean the US, but I imagine other places are there too) haven't ever addressed it enough to actually consider it even a little bit fixed.
 
Prevenger17 said:
Aye, you could say the same about Rick and Morty but I still watch it. Agree on giving platforms to the likes of Jones though. Some lads are just dangerous idiots with nothing substantively interesting to say
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Rick and Morty? No way finally someone is at my intellectual level on GOT I watch that also.
 
Police at it again. Man opens door with one hand behind his back, is immediately told to show his hands, does so and kneels, still gets shot and killed in front of his girlfriend.

Police body cam video contains shooting so dont watch if sensitive
 
Zezti said:
Police at it again. Man opens door with one hand behind his back, is immediately told to show his hands, does so and kneels, still gets shot and killed in front of his girlfriend.

Police body cam video contains shooting so dont watch if sensitive
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You forgot to mention he had a gun
 
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