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We live in a rather emotionally fragile culture.

Merely making comments about certain truths or realities in the world is widely deemed to be offensive, hateful, or bigoted, regardless of the intention of the person who made the comment.

That impacts virtually every aspect of our public life and the way we handle our problems as a nation, ranging from the border crisis and foreign policy to federal spending and healthcare.

We saw that on display recently when a morbidly obese rapper known as Dank Demoss filed a lawsuit against Lyft after a rideshare driver refused her access to his car due to her weight.

She ordered a sedan. She needed a semitruck.

The driver seems to have been worried that his small car would not be able to handle Demoss, who weighs nearly 500 pounds, and therefore canceled the ride. Demoss claimed that move was hateful, and her legal team even compared the incident to racial or religious discrimination.

“It would be no different than a driver pulling up and saying ‘I don’t want to have black people in my car’ or ‘I don’t want to have Christians in my car or Muslims in my car,’ under the law it’s the same,” one of her attorneys said, referencing laws in Michigan that ban weight discrimination.

In other words, our culture now likens protected categories like race and sex, which are immutable, to categories like weight, which is usually directly correlated with health decisions.

Such an absurd application of the civil rights regime ventures into completely denying reality. Someone who is black can fit in the back of a small car the same as someone who is white. Someone who weighs the same as two baby elephants may very well impact the vehicle.

She should look in the mirror and step on the scale.

The fragility of our culture has extended to the point that we are now affirming terrible health decisions and even making morbid obesity a protected category under discrimination law.

Such a cultural mindset is perhaps most harmful to those who fall into that category.

Demoss does not need to win a massive settlement from Lyft. Demoss needs to eat a salad and spend some quality time on the treadmill. Michigan discrimination law cannot change that truth.