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_refugee_  ·  3943 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning, by Haruki Murakami

Racism - the act of judging someone based solely on their race

Saying you will not date someone because of their race - judging someone based solely on their race

You're not a homophobe and evidence exists to demonstrate that sexual preference is not based solely on your feelings on the topic of whether you like dicks. At this point there are clearly biological and/or genetic factors related to whether someone is queer, gay, bi, etc. Meanwhile, there are absolutely no genetic or biological factors identified in whether or not you "like" people of different races because guess what. Race is just a skin color. It's nothing more than that; there's no other difference between a black man and a white man than the amount of melatonin in their skin. Sexual preference = something you can't help. Race = something you can't help. But making a blanket statement that there are entire races you won't date makes a huge judgement call about that entire group of people based on knowing ONE THING about them - the color of their skin. Assuming that you know any more about that entire group of people solely because of the color of their skin amounts to stereotyping , gross generalizations, and - you got it - racism.

    ridiculous to you perhaps

Frankly, I don't even understand the point of your original comment in its entirety or this comment here. You go from calling my preferences "picky" to them essentially implying that my findings of someone else's standards to be "ridiculous" is a personal definition and one you disagree with. It's not okay for me to find someone else's standards ridiculous but it's okay for you to find mine picky? ooooo kay dude.

On a side note, your giant copy/pastings are kind of annoying. I understand you're replying to the text of my comment. You don't need to show me, say, entire paragraphs of what I've written in order for me - or anyone - to understand what you are responding to. It's the beauty of a forum - we all can already see, and if we aren't smart enough to figure out the context then I'd say the point of hubski has already been pretty much lost.