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

Aw, man, you caught me! That's my problem. I'm ignorant. My bad. Lemme go get some education.

Whether or not you can choose it, you are making a judgment about an entire class of people based on their skin tone.

A Jewish person might decide for religious reasons that he only wants to date other Jewish people. He may have a very good reason for this, for instance he wants to raise his children in the Jewish tradition or he wants to have a Jewish wedding or whatever. It's still discriminatory.

In ways, dating is about discrimination. Yes, you're nose-ist, and I'm age-ist.

    people can't choose what they are attracted to

Can you back that up? Moreover, just because you don't think you've made a conscious decision, doesn't mean that a decision hasn't been made - a choice that you weren't born with, already formed in your consciousness.

I don't pretend to be an expert on sexual fetishes or what causes them but I suspect it is a multifold scenario with many variables and that many people have different "causes" or what-have-you behind their fetishes. I would posit that is far too broad a subject and one in which I have too little knowledge for me to comment on.