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Racial comment...yes or no?

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Was my commenr racist?

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brianmanahan said:
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No, this is racist. Actually its not either. Just stereotyping 😛

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Bird222 said:
I know many of us want to live in a post racial world but we have to be honest about things. If the only reason you are against someone is because of their race that seems clear to me that is racist. The definition was given above. It isn't lynching racist but it's still racist.
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Yes, but the definition is also flawed.

Saying one is not attracted to blacks is not akin to saying you are openly discriminating against the entire black race*. Rather, you are stating you aren't attracted to their common body figures. Hell, maybe you simply don't fine brown/black skin attractive. How is that discrimination? Quite often, people find beauty in the face (and body shape, if generalized); and black people, like every group in the world, have a strong tendency to have specific facial structures/bone shapes. I personally don't find many black women attractive for the given face shape reason, and hopefully people have enough of a thick skin to realize it's not slander, meant to be offensive, or otherwise an attempt to segregate or discriminate against everyone of their gene pool.
But there are definitely the stand out exemptions, ones who are jaw-dropping beautiful. Unfortunately, many seem to have mixed ancestry and probably draw from other gene pools. But once again, there are the exceptions - I have seen a few black as night (and thus, I assume "pure blood" ancestry, but I may be wrong) women who have both an amazing figure and beautiful face. One time, I was almost drooling, but then she opened her mouth and what came out (ghetto trash vocabulary and accent) left me disgusted.

Honestly, we have to get passed seeing the use of common features for general statements as such a terrible and sometimes racist thing.

You can just as easily say you don't find Greek women to be attractive and not once draw the racism flag. But in the end, it should be just as offensive if we want to be so easily offended. I use this as a reference, because personally I don't find Greek women, on average, to be attractive. once again, the exceptions can be made.

If we want to be truly Politically Correct, we'd drop all pretenses of "racism" and, in the meantime, move on to "ethnicism". 😛
For blacks, since in the "developed world" they all started in Africa and were forcefully brought to various places, but have since created their own heritage in those and other places, they'd need to have separate ethnic monikers imho. You can no longer truly refer to Blacks as "African" anymore (I am prepared to have someone be offended by that), since they have created their own localized gene pools in various places. As someone said earlier, black people in the Dominican Republic are quite different from the black people of Democratic Republic of Congo.

Ethnicity, in the end, is simply the build up of cultural traditions and a localized gene pool over many generations. So, the newest black ethnic groups are far younger than say, Germanic groups. But ultimately, all of our gene pools sprang from common sources long ago but we've mixed and bred with out pools, moved to new parts of the globe, and created our own groups.

Doesn't help to distinguish ghetto hood blacks from those who have mixed in with the rest of society and live an honest life. Which, dammit, is what I wanted to try and do at the end of that digression, but I can't. Ugh.
Because I can't be attracted to trash. Well, scratch that, I can be attracted to their physical looks, but then they expose their mind and attraction goes out the window.
(same goes for white hood trash, hispanic hood trash, etc. They can look divine, but once you see them for who they are, it's like "fuck! I can't date that shit")


* the best solution to this problem of definitions: we move beyond even calling attention to races; we aren't different races, just localized gene pools with, sometimes, different colored skins, much as different localized gene pools will produce a common eye color, hair color, face structure, height, etc.
 
destrekor said:
Yes, but the definition is also flawed.

Saying one is not attracted to blacks is not akin to saying you are openly discriminating against the entire black race*. Rather, you are stating you aren't attracted to their common body figures. Hell, maybe you simply don't fine brown/black skin attractive. How is that discrimination? Quite often, people find beauty in the face (and body shape, if generalized); and black people, like every group in the world, have a strong tendency to have specific facial structures/bone shapes. I personally don't find many black women attractive for the given face shape reason, and hopefully people have enough of a thick skin to realize it's not slander, meant to be offensive, or otherwise an attempt to segregate or discriminate against everyone of their gene pool.
But there are definitely the stand out exemptions, ones who are jaw-dropping beautiful. Unfortunately, many seem to have mixed ancestry and probably draw from other gene pools. But once again, there are the exceptions - I have seen a few black as night (and thus, I assume "pure blood" ancestry, but I may be wrong) women who have both an amazing figure and beautiful face. One time, I was almost drooling, but then she opened her mouth and what came out (ghetto trash vocabulary and accent) left me disgusted.

Honestly, we have to get passed seeing the use of common features for general statements as such a terrible and sometimes racist thing.

You can just as easily say you don't find Greek women to be attractive and not once draw the racism flag. But in the end, it should be just as offensive if we want to be so easily offended. I use this as a reference, because personally I don't find Greek women, on average, to be attractive. once again, the exceptions can be made.

If we want to be truly Politically Correct, we'd drop all pretenses of "racism" and, in the meantime, move on to "ethnicism". 😛
For blacks, since in the "developed world" they all started in Africa and were forcefully brought to various places, but have since created their own heritage in those and other places, they'd need to have separate ethnic monikers imho. You can no longer truly refer to Blacks as "African" anymore (I am prepared to have someone be offended by that), since they have created their own localized gene pools in various places. As someone said earlier, black people in the Dominican Republic are quite different from the black people of Democratic Republic of Congo.

Ethnicity, in the end, is simply the build up of cultural traditions and a localized gene pool over many generations. So, the newest black ethnic groups are far younger than say, Germanic groups. But ultimately, all of our gene pools sprang from common sources long ago but we've mixed and bred with out pools, moved to new parts of the globe, and created our own groups.

Doesn't help to distinguish ghetto hood blacks from those who have mixed in with the rest of society and live an honest life. Which, dammit, is what I wanted to try and do at the end of that digression, but I can't. Ugh.
Because I can't be attracted to trash. Well, scratch that, I can be attracted to their physical looks, but then they expose their mind and attraction goes out the window.
(same goes for white hood trash, hispanic hood trash, etc. They can look divine, but once you see them for who they are, it's like "fuck! I can't date that shit")


* the best solution to this problem of definitions: we move beyond even calling attention to races; we aren't different races, just localized gene pools with, sometimes, different colored skins, much as different localized gene pools will produce a common eye color, hair color, face structure, height, etc.
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1. Greece is a country not a race. 🙂
2. OP didn't say some black women he said black women ie all. He also didn't say he didn't like big butts. He said he didn't like black women. So to me he is discriminating against an entire race of women.

He can do what he likes (obviously) but let's be honest about what it is.
 
Bird222 said:
1. Greece is a country not a race. 🙂
2. OP didn't say some black women he said black women ie all. He also didn't say he didn't like big butts. He said he didn't like black women. So to me he is discriminating against an entire race of women.

He can do what he likes (obviously) but let's be honest about what it is.
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Considering it appears you missed the entire point, I'm not going to explain any further. I typed enough.
 
Well I guess you don't see my point either so agree to disagree. I will emphasize that I don't think the OP wants to lynch black women or has some deep seeded hatred but based on what he posted, to me that statement is a racist statement.
 
amdhunter said:
Jesus Christ guys...let's put this in plain English.

If a minority says you made a racist comment, it was a racist comment. End of story, you racists.
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Thats not true, its only if its directed towards blacks & jews, if u say.things about latinos, indians, arabs, & asians its no problem & there's hardly any backlash.

To the guy that said she's dominican & not "black", u do realize Dominicans have an afro latino heritage, right? Most of them ARE black, but they speak spanish, i know that confuses the hell out of some white people cause they dont fit into ur categories, but yes they're afro latino.
 
SheHateMe said:
Not racist, but a stupid comment nonetheless. You could have kept it to yourself. He didn't ask you if you were attracted to black women.

If he doesn't go anywhere else with you again, I wouldn't blame him. There's always those people who feel the need to say something unnecessary at the table. Those people definitely don't deserve anyone's time.

I went to dinner with some people from work once (an old job) and one of the girls was really open about her sexuality and it was kind of disgusting. Here we are, ordering food while she ponders whether or not the guy who is serving us is the person she "sucked off" at a Club a while back.

I never invited her ass out again.
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While I can understand why some MIGHT find it offensive, are you saying that I would be less of person in your eyes because I don't think a majority of black women are attractive? Or are you saying that the timing of the discussion is more of an issue?

As a side note, I'm just curious if that opinion would preclude you and I, hypothetically speaking, from ever hanging out if you knew I had that opinion.
 
So if OP's friend pushed OP to give definitive answer as to why she's not his type, that automatically makes it a racist comment? Regardless of the fact if she was black/white/hispanic/asian/etc?
 
What I've noticed is when a white person's talking about something involving a non white person they always seem to throw what the person was into what they say. One of my old jobs was working at a store and I saw this all day

a white person was cut off by another white person in the parking lot "I was cut off by this asshole in the parking lot!" they never bring up the persons skin color

a white person was cut off by a black person "this black fucker cut me off in the parking lot" black can be replaced with Mexican too. 99/100 they bring up the persons skin color.

And like the OP I've heard plenty people say just what he did. I like black females and usually people always add the "I'm not attracted to black females" when I bring one up. They never just leave it at "nah, I'm not really attracted to her"

It's not racial imho, but it's interesting how I see it happen like this almost every time.
 
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McLovin said:
So if OP's friend pushed OP to give definitive answer as to why she's not his type, that automatically makes it a racist comment? Regardless of the fact if she was black/white/hispanic/asian/etc?
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If the OP's friend asked for a definitive answer..the OP would have stated that he doesn't find her attractive because she's black....

So to answer your question, yes.
 
McLovin said:
While I can understand why some MIGHT find it offensive, are you saying that I would be less of person in your eyes because I don't think a majority of black women are attractive? Or are you saying that the timing of the discussion is more of an issue?

As a side note, I'm just curious if that opinion would preclude you and I, hypothetically speaking, from ever hanging out if you knew I had that opinion.
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I think so, because for 1) You don't know what every black woman looks like so how could you say the MAJORITY of us aren't attractive? You are generalizing an entire group based off of physically features you feel are indicative of the entire race group which isn't very fair. Not all black women look, talk, or are shaped alike...so to write off the entire group because is pretty wrong, imo.

I'm not attracted to every white guy I see...not because he's white but because there is something about the way he looks that isn't attractive to me. This includes having man boobs, pimples, beards, hairy hands, etc. None of which has to do with features I associate with white people..but more to do with features I associate with unattractive people.

I don't even know why race has to come into it. Just say you aren't attracted to her and be done with it...but if you were really going to sit in my face and say you aren't attracted because of race...we can't be friends because I don't associate with people like that.

There wouldn't be any hard feelings involved. I would simply disassociate myself with you and we wouldn't speak again.
 
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It was technically racist (IMO), but not in a hateful or hurtful manner. You stated that an entire grouping of females, based on their race alone, is not attractive to you.

I don't see anything "wrong" with your statement, but it's technically racist.
 
mmntech said:
Don't you know, it's only white people that are racist. That is until you venture outside of North America. A lot of people are closed minded and have no idea what goes on in the rest of the world. Asian in particular. Try dating an Asian woman if you're white and see what other Asians think. Better yet try dating an Asian woman if you're black. D:
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Depends where in Asia, in Japan i found they're the most open to interacial marriage, especially if ure living in Japan. Then china (assuming u have the money). Korea wasnt so open, they have a chip on their shoulder towards foreigners & are very big on Korean intermarriages.
 
HamburgerBoy said:
No, but you're an idiot if you don't think people would find comments like that offensive in real life.
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We, as a society, should have less regard for what other people "may find offensive". Far too many people are too stupid to take offense at real insults and instead find offense in things that are either benign or too tricky for their tiny minds to grasp.
 
poohbear said:
Depends where in Asia, in Japan i found they're the most open to interacial marriage, especially if ure living in Japan. Then china (assuming u have the money). Korea wasnt so open, they have a chip on their shoulder towards foreigners & are very big on Korean intermarriages.
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Depends where in Japan. Maybe in Tokyo, but most of Japan is pretty hostile to "Gaijin."
 
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