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thepotatoman
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I'm not entirely sure it is related to the thread.
But you'll likely have some people that want to promote it so they feel less guilty about being fat. And then you have people who think them being fat only affects them and therefore nobody else should judge them for it.
Maybe some people use it as an excuse get out of the responsibility of being healthy, but I think it's mostly about separating the problem out from the overall worth of the individual. Obesity is a problem, and maybe it's even a flaw, but everyone has flaws of some sort, it's just that obesity happens to be one of the few problems that are immediately apparent. Because of that, the non-acceptance usually is more focused on looks than an actual judgement of the problem of obesity.
Non-acceptance also often lacks the understanding of the difficulties surrounding obesity, and even when we try talk about that, people tend to do everything they can to trivialize it, some you don't see at nearly the same extent for every other type of problem people face. Just look at this very topic for evidence of that. You even have posts demising scientific studies as a whole, which would fit right in with the likes of anti vaxxers and climate change deniers.
And being fat does mostly only affect themselves, outside of extreme exceptions like Airplane flights. Even in medical costs they actually cost less than skinny people, since they usually don't live into their 90s when people start needing heavy medical attention damn near every day.