SteveBarnes21

TLDR; Addiction is a disease.
There is an issue here between whether people class mental illness as a disease. This comment will treat mental illness as a disease.

There are very few people who would argue Anorexia was not a disease. Anorexia is a type of addiction, albeit an addiction that is not understood very well. There are other addictions, such as to drugs, that less people would argue as a disease, but I would argue addiction, in any form, is a disease. Obesity is an addiction to food and as such, is a disease.

There is a difference between "racism" and "racist" which means there are issues in the phrasing of this opinion. Anyone can be racist, regardless of their own race. For example, a black person saying "all white people are evil because they are white" would be racist, but it would not be an example of racism as racism requires structural and institutional power that, in terms of race, only white people have.