Discrimination against fat people might not be all the fault of bullies, international scientists say.
To me, this point should have been amplified in the article. Not all stigmas are created equally. The stigma of being overweight is said to be one of the last acceptable prejudices. I am worried that many will use the results of this study as a justification of their rejection of overweight people.
For example, the same can be said for racial and ethnic discrimination -- that there is an evolutionary/genetic basis -- but we recognize that only fringe people (KKK members and neo-Nazis) will they use the evolutionary/genetic explanation as a reason for their prejudice.
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