I can see RFK Jr. writing this one down in his "ideas" notebook as we speak.
The nation of Turkey wants to battle obesity in their country and they've thought of a very non-PC way to do it.
Yes, fat shaming is BACK!
I'm not sure if fat shaming ever left places like Turkey, but now it's going to be government-sponsored fat shaming, so that's fun.
From the Daily Mail:
Another person who was checked by the inspectors, psychiatrist and academic Gökben Hızlı Sayar, wrote on X: 'I got caught in a fat checkpoint in Üsküdar Square. Luckily, they scolded me a little and let me go.
'Like drivers warning of speed traps, I tipped off three other chubby people heading that way. Solidarity, my fellow fat comrades!'
Memişoğlu responded to people joking about the scheme on social media: 'Dear young people, I read what you write on social media. You are very entertaining, but the issue of being overweight is serious.'
Pictures from around Turkey have shown people being guided onto weighing scales and having their height measured before their weight is calculated.
The anti-obesity campaign, which is described by officials as a 'national fight' and is running under the tag line 'know your weight, live healthy,' began on May 10 and plans to survey one in eight Turks.
The campaign's goal is to measure the body mass index (BMI) of 10 million citizens, roughly one in eight Turks, over two months.
They've got health officials just hanging around villages across 81 provinces in Turkey making random BMI stops, forcing people to hop up on a scale and get their waists measured.
People with a BMI over 25 are referred to state-run Family Health centres and Healthy Life centres, where they can receive free nutritional counseling and follow-up services.
If your BMI is over 25 they're literally going to send you to go get help (for context, that would be 75% of Americans aged 20 and older).
THE FAT CAMPS ARE REAL, PEOPLE!
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