Would you attack them with racist slurs if they were Black?
If that's wrong, then it's also wrong to attack them with fat-shaming. Weight is not something one can change, which is why diets almost never work. When you fat-shame someone, you are attacking them for something they cannot change. And you are defining one group of people as superior to another by virtue of the genes they were born with.
Note that I have always been in the "normal" weight range. I have done nothing to achieve that. I was born with genes that put me in that range. And, unlike others, I refuse to use that genetic fact to feel superior to or to put down others.
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