Comments on: Woman Kicked Out of New Zealand For Being Too Fat

By: LOL

LOL — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:00:47 +0000

heh, yeah woohoo hate on New Zealand because they set a standard for their country! it’s their choice, and they’re not taking a “holier than thou” approach to it. New Zealand is not pretentious. that’s stupid. it’s THEIR FREAKING COUNTRY! if you don’t like it, go to America and mind your own business! In America, you can do what you want and no one will stop you. be fat, I don’t care. In New Zealand, they care. SO DON’T GO.

By: Wow

Wow — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 10:34:32 +0000

That is funny.

By: Nuclear Ants

Nuclear Ants — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:13:59 +0000

First they came for the overweight and I did nothing because I wasn’t overweight. Then they came for the handicapped and again I did nothing because I wasn’t handicapped. Then they came for me and by then it was too late.

Not everyone who is overweight got there by eating, some medicines cause weight gain even if you eat according to proper nutrition. Discrimination is objectifying the person rather than seeing the value of the person underneath, this is usually caused by fear that the discriminator may become or is the same as the discriminated against.

By: Jarzout

Jarzout — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 21:00:11 +0000

The NZ government are doing her a favour keeping her out. NZ and it’s natives are dull and boring and nobody in their right mind would want to live there. I saw plenty of fat people while I was there, some of them were grotesque and looked like their diet consisted of lard washed down with cooking oil. Go somewhere else lady and live among normal people.

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 23:27:16 +0000

ok to everyone who assumes that this is suedo-fascism or unfair, think of it like this, NZ’s health care system is so socialized that if you have a problem you pay NOTHING taxes support keeping you healthy, with that in mind by allowing people who are at a particular health risk (fat people) they are telling all the taxpayers to pay the way of someone who hasnt been willing to do enough to lose weight, how is that fair at all that people can expect to be a cost to everyone but as soon as someone says they dont want to pay for someones completely avoidable health risk everyone gets up in arms.
Also for the record you wont get kicked out of New Zealand if you are fat citizens can be fat already but they just dont allow you to immigrate, like eln says its like discriminating against drug users.
In closing you have no right to live in new Zealand when you apply for citizenship you are asking politely to live there.

By: The Diet Guy

The Diet Guy — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 22:47:06 +0000

For goodness sake, put Lipstick on her! Push the dang table away!! And walk around the thing.

By: Grant

Grant — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:58:48 +0000

difference between this & for example cancer/aids, is that they can exercise and come to a healthy weight so they have the ability to change

where as cancer/aids they do not necessarily have the ability to rid themselves of there problem, so i can’t see NZ denying them.

so the difference here is they can help themselves.

By: AC

AC — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 09:04:38 +0000

The comments disgust me even more than the article.

By: NZ Citizen

NZ Citizen — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 05:41:48 +0000

Of course New Zealand requires immigrants to be able to write a cohesive sentence and also screens for other medical conditions such as AIDs mentioned above. In fact there is a whole range of criteria that applicants must meet most of to be allowed to migrate, except in extreme circumstances such as refugee status and a reasonable amount of migrants are accepted every year.

However its important to note that this is a residency application, I’m sure the lady would be welcome to visit on a short stay visa, and she has been given time to remedy the situation.

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 04:45:53 +0000

I agree with this stance by NZ – everyone knows their sheep are only rated to 90kg’s of back end pressure. The real issue here isn’t the strain it places on the Vets rather than the National Health Care system.