This paper offers a novel argument for the claim that "environmental" explanations of obesity meant to help address racial health disparities may actually reinforce racism. While some contend that these explanations reinforce racist and sizeist interracial dynamics, we argue that environmental explanations can bolster intraracial hierarchies of whiteness that reinforce white supremacy. Deployments of environmental accounts in contexts like the U.S. invoke and intertwine two damaging dichotomies: the "good fatty/bad fatty" and the "good white person/bad white person." This supports a cultural system that oppresses people of color and enables thin, white proponents to position themselves as "good white people" against those who deploy racist, moralizing accounts of obesity, and against fat white people, who are implicitly framed as morally inferior. This analysis furthers our understanding of racist and sizeist discourse about fatness and the insidious ways that attempts to address racism can reinforce it.

本文提供了一个新颖的论据，声称旨在帮助解决种族健康差异的肥胖的“环境”解释实际上可能会加剧种族主义。虽然有些人认为这些解释强化了种族主义和体型歧视的种族间动态，但我们认为环境解释可以加强种族内的白人等级制度，从而加强白人至上主义。在美国这样的背景下，环境账户的部署调用并交织了两种破坏性的二分法：“好胖子/坏胖子”和“好白人/坏白人”。这支持了一种文化体系，该体系压迫有色人种，并使瘦弱的白人支持者能够将自己定位为“好白人”，反对那些实施种族主义的人，并反对肥胖的白人，他们被含蓄地诬陷为道德低下的人。这一分析进一步加深了我们对关于肥胖的种族主义和体型歧视话语的理解，以及试图解决种族主义的阴险方式可以强化它。