Reply #21: here's one way to look at it...

[dfong63]

i think many of those who display prejudice against fat people are really just terrified of being fat themselves. they want to believe fat people bring it on themselves - despite medical and scientific evidence pointing to a variety of causes including genetics, viruses, and diseases - because they (fat-phobics) need to feel that "it can't happen to me".

maybe it's not much different from the half-Jewish anti-Semite, or the half-black white supremacist, the closeted homophobe, etc...