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Kafke  ·  3947 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning, by Haruki Murakami

    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.

I never said anything of the sort. I said I'm not attracted to people with certain skin colors. Just as I'm not attracted to people with certain looks. Just as I'm not attracted to people with dicks. It's all the same line of reasoning. It's not that I went out and said "ethnicity X is obviously worse because of their skin color". No, I said "ethnicity X is a-okay, but I wouldn't date one". Just like I wouldn't date a guy, or someone I don't find attractive. Doesn't mean I would hate them because of it.

    It's not okay for me to find someone else's standards ridiculous but it's okay for you to find mine picky?

What is considered picky is an opinion. I never stated otherwise. It's not a bad or good thing to be picky/not picky. It's just an observation.

    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.

I quote/copy the different sections of the comment so I can address each point individually. It makes it much easier to see exactly what I'm responding to, rather than just responding to the comment as a whole.

    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.

I find that the point of hubski doesn't rely on whether or not people quote. There's a reason the markup was added in the first place (to support this kind of discussion). If hubski didn't need it (or doesn't want it) the function would be removed.