(very soy Harvard PMC voice) "Noooo, you can't say that obesity isn't evil!!! Your methodology must be faulty if it doesn't help me rationalize my anti-worker bourgeois moralism!"
We have the receipts of these Mad And On NPR eugenicists who are being honest about their Malthusian fascism: "We have no choice but to shame fatties or else our health system will be overloaded because people will become too fat".
Funny how that PMC pro-capitalist, anti-worker class betrayal of the 1990s/2000s is repeating during covid19. "You need to listen to experts, they want to help you!!!" Stop lying, demon. These treacherous grifters probably only fear mongered about obesity so they can get research funding, like how they wanted to be friends with Epstein
supposedly people respond better to more overweight politicians, so if you want to get elected to office as a leftist that's a sound strategy most of the iconic and influential political figures of recent memory are or appear to be overweight; speculatively, the mechanism at work is that the more.. non-euclidean ? a person appears, the more people will try to project their fantasies unto this body, imagining it to be a veil for the true thing underneath appearances (Ben Garrison imagining Trump as a bear of a man instead of the ball of suet that he is) ;; or it's just that you put on weight as you get older, so it's just people being drawn to their elders as repositories of wisdom or as figures to be held in high esteem you can explain the inexplicable push by the Democrats to have Kamala or Pete as the faces of the party through a similar psychological blindspot, where 'empty' people (or fantasy psychopaths like Hannibal Lecter) are like sponges for your fantasies, you can project whatever you want on their bodies, on their faces, you can even make them do dances or spit back pop culture references, but there's nothing there