Jonathan Alpert
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“We’re seeing more and more ordinary issues viewed through the same lens: Who has power? Who’s oppressed? How does race factor into it? Now even a conversation with your doctor about weight or diet can be framed as a form of oppression,”
Jonathan Alpert · said date not stated · reported 2026-09-07
Alpert said ordinary issues are increasingly being viewed through lenses of power, oppression, and race.
“There are fair criticisms of BMI and how it’s used. But calling it ‘body fascism’ is what happens when ideology gets inserted into almost every part of life,”
Jonathan Alpert · said date not stated · reported 2026-09-07
Alpert told Fox News Digital that Harrison's comments reflect ideology being inserted into everyday life.
“As a psychotherapist, I think there’s a psychological cost to that. If you teach people to interpret uncomfortable information as an attack, they become less willing to hear things they may need to hear. Sometimes a doctor telling you that you need to lose weight or change your diet isn’t racism, oppression or an attempt to control your body. It’s medical advice,”
Jonathan Alpert · said date not stated · reported 2026-09-07
Alpert argued that teaching people to interpret medical advice as oppression carries a psychological cost.
“That fits neatly into the worldview being promoted at a conference like this. Instead of seeing people primarily as individuals who make choices and have some responsibility for their lives, everything gets explained through systems, identity and power,”
Jonathan Alpert · said date not stated · reported 2026-09-07
Alpert criticized the worldview promoted at the conference for explaining everything through systems, identity, and power.
“Socialism may be an economic philosophy, but the culture surrounding this version of it goes much further. Personal problems become political problems, and individual responsibility gets pushed aside in favor of identifying the system or group supposedly responsible,”
Jonathan Alpert · said date not stated · reported 2026-09-07
Alpert said the culture surrounding this version of socialism turns personal problems into political problems.