Jesse chose to use the language of disease to refer to a concept that can’t exist outside of the people who embody it. so either he is too stupid and careless to realize the impact this would have, or he’s smart and chose it purposely to scaremonger
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No joke, I wanted to look up "social contagion" and the obesity thing was on the first page of results
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The whole thing has really nasty implications - fat people existing in public make more people fatter? Assuming this is even true, what can you do with that, that isn't horribly oppressive? search/replace "fat" with "trans" and well. Here we are I guess.
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