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I think the question holo is posing is why fat people are receiving negative treatment AS IF they were a racial group while other groups with vices just as unhealthy are not.
I believe it has something to with the consumer society the western world is building. All the advertising that is helping to define popular culture generated by these countries is instilling a superficiality in the people since advertising, for the most part, offers images, specifically of near perfect people.
Being a smoker or a drinker doesn't readily change one's appearance to the degree that being fat does, so, in our thin-obsessed era, I do believe that overweight people are the targets of a disproportionately large amount of criticism and prejudice.
For example: Here in the bay area the college social scene is far more accepting of the drinker or smoker than of the fat person.
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