Ungendered activist claims GLP-1s are fascist and genocide fat people in unhinged moment during DSA conference
They’re declaring war on Ozempic! In a completely jaw-dropping moment at the recent Democratic Socialists of America-backed Socialism 2026 conference in Chicago, an unhinged radical made the outlandish claim that GLP-1 drugs are “fascist” because they “genocide fat people.” “The political deployment of GLP-1s is fascistic, not because individuals take them, but because the conditions under which they become necessary are shaped by a world fixated on genociding fat people,” proclaimed Atlanta activist Da’Shaun L.Harrison.The extremist claimed the drugs, like Ozempic, Wegovy and Mounjaro — which were developed to treat diabetes are credited with lowering the risk of death from heart attack or stroke by 20% in high-risk patients — exist “to sustain a social order in which fat people are monitored, restricted, guilted, stolen from and punished.”“Body fascism is not some relic from the past, it’s an active feature of modern imperial regimes,” lambasted Harrison, who proudly plasters their Instagram page with snaps of their swimsuit-clad overweight body.
“Every time a government decides whose bodies must be protected and whose bodies must be erased for the sake of national imagery, this is body fascism.”Harrison, a self-described “ungendered” author and “trans theorist,” who penned the 2022 book, “Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness,” spoke at the conference attended by more than 3,000 comrades from across the country.“We have to give up the fantasy of being fitter than the fascists,” chimed in Beatrice Adler-Bolton, another crazed speaker on the “Health Fascism, Body Politics, and the Anti-State State” panel.“Fitness is a measure of relative disposability under capitalism.Our task is not to become less disposable to become more useful to the ruling order…The point is not to beat the fascists at their own game.
It is not to lay a better claim on their own territory by being fitter...