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Is it racist to not be attracted to specific races?

Is it racist to not find certain races attractive?

  • Yes

    Votes: 22 5.9%
  • No

    Votes: 349 94.1%

  • Total voters
    371

Furlong

Banned
Here's why,

"I won't date someone because they are another race"

vs

"I don't find other races attractive"

Only one of these options is racist.

It's not racist to dismiss someone based on their race, especially nowadays. If you are just looking for a bit of slap and tickle, you aren't going to want to spend your evenings humoring a BLM? advocate wallowing in self-pity.
 

lock2k

Banned
It's not racism. Just preference.

Although it's funny that I ended up with my wife who has roughly the same ethnic background as me in a mixed country but when I met her I knew nothing about her. But even though the country is mixed as fuck my state has a lot of immigrants so a lot of people are pretty much European in origin.

I'm very attracted to eastern Asian women and I blame that on the large population of Japanese in São Paulo and watching too much tokusatsu when I was a child. One of the first girls I was Into was Japanese. :messenger_beaming:
 

GeorgPrime

Banned
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xD

Iam not only attracted, also married to one.
 
It's not racist, no. No one can tell you who to date.

But ... I do think it can sometimes just be ignorance or lack of travel too. If you travel to other places in the world, you'll find beautiful people everywhere in every racial and ethnic group. That sounds like a cheesy platitude, but it can actually be surprising to some people. If you go to Nigeria, you'll find attractive Nigerians. If you go to Iran, you'll find attractive Iranians. There are hot people everywhere. And even if people aren't racist, subconsciously, I think people do have bias when they're not exposed to large amounts of people from different races. It's just less likely you'll find the person that does it for you if you see less of them around. But if you lived in a different country for 3 months with a completely different racial make up, you'd find someone to be attracted to and be completely used to seeing people of other races all the time.

Who you end up dating is going to be largely correlated to where you live and what you're around.
 
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danowat

Banned
Surely it depends, if it's purely an aesthetical thing, then no, but if it's follow with 'because they are all X' then it's racist.
 

mcz117chief

Member
If you don't find them attractive BECAUSE of the race then yes, if you just happen to dislike all women from one ethnicity (virtually impossible) then no. Saying you won't date a black chick before you even see her is racist by definition. I have yet to see an ethnicity that doesn't have good looking women. I have been all over the planet and everywhere I went I saw plenty of hot chicks (except England, all the hot chicks there were French tourists :p ).
 
Saying you won't date a black chick before you even see her is racist by definition.
Had a cute and pretty black girl with dreadlocks hitting on a party on me once, but I just knew where this would have been leading to, and politely declined.

I can be romantically attracted to black girls and also see that they are beautiful (if they are).
I just don't get sexually aroused by having sex with black women.
Never had, never will I guess.
 

VulcanRaven

Member
Too left, want to work and not stay home is the big one. The wrong kind of feminists basically, we pretty have the stereotype of western women not knowing how to cook, not looking after their appearance etc
What is wrong with wanting to work? I don't really understand this thinking. Not everyone wants to stay at home.
 
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RedVIper

Banned
It depends on the reasoning really.

> I don't want to date asian chicks because I don't find their facial structure atractive - fine

>I don't want to date asian chicks because asians are subhuman - racist
 
Is it a good idea to view the world through the lens of racism all the fucking time?
Did anybody do this before it was pushed and became mainstream, I think not.
 

TGO

Hype Train conductor. Works harder than it steams.
I have a preference and it applies to all races.
Generally my type would be mostly white but not restricted to.
For example, I wouldn't say no to Beyonce in Destiny's Child's Survivor or Soldier video
And I would probably do Christina Milian too
And Alicia Keys in her early days
 
If I am racist for being attracted to pale skinned women, gays are misogynists for not wanting to fuck with women at all by the same reasoning.
 

Batiman

Banned
I wouldn’t say it’s racist but I just couldn’t understand not being attracted to a certain race personally. I find it weird.
 

DrJohnGalt

Banned
Skin color doesn't really matter to me, but features do. I don't go for broad noses, large mouths/lips, high foreheads, wideset eyes, etc. These features are just more prominent on people from certain parts of the world. Give me the features I like (button noses, dimples, nice teeth, almond eyes, thick lashes, long silky straight hair, and a well-proportioned face in general) and it doesn't really matter to me what color the skin is.

Aside from physical characteristics, I am certainly turned off by the hoochie hip hop culture itself. Again, more prominent for certain colored skins, but by no means exclusive.
 
What is wrong with wanting to work? I don't really understand this thinking. Not everyone wants to stay at home.

A good mother should be at home, thats just the way most people here see it. Kindergarten should be for socializing the kids not as a full time way to keep them out of your hair so you can work/relax or whatever.

My two older kids are 4 and 3 and we only put them in for half days so they get to interact with kids outside of our family, my wife picks them up at lunch time and then feeds them herself. I know its not possible even here for families to be able to do it but for us we can manage so we do. Quite a lot of other families will do it where the grandparents will then pick them up instead of leaving them for a full day.

Perhaps when they are older and all in highschool my wife will go back to work but if she doesnt i have no issue with it
 
I wouldn’t say it’s racist but I just couldn’t understand not being attracted to a certain race personally. I find it weird.
How is something as obvious as skin colour different to other sexual markers?

People are not attracted to people that are short, too long, too fat, too slim, not having enough or too many muscles, small dicks, big dicks, huge tits, no tits at all, whatever.

But if you are not into a certain skin colour because of your sexual preferences you are racist?
 

MaestroMike

Gold Member
Opposites attract to prevent inbreeding. China, japan and other homogenous countries needs to bring in other races/ethnicities to maintain a steady fertility rate. US, Brazil and other heterogenous/melting pot countries are ahead of the curve in this regard.
 
No. My preference is white but i even then would and only have kids with another eastern European. Specifically only blonde or light brown haired and blue eyes.

Even though Russians have some really hot looking women with natural bkack hair and blue eyes i dont want kids with bkack hair.

Only countries i was open to were Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraina, Poland and western Russian.

Fair play, the hottest hook up I ever had was with a Lithuanian girl. Blonde and Stunning.
 

subsmoke

Member
The word racist has become meaningless to me because it's no longer about accusing someone of racial hatred. Rather, it's used to emotionally manipulate people into thinking in a certain subjective way. Same with sexism, misogyny, Islamophobia , transphobia, xenophobia, etc. Of course if you hate black people or Muslims or transgender people then the words have valid meaning. That's not how those words are actually used for the most part though. You'll be called a racist if you're white and don't date outside your race, you'll be called Islamophobic if you don't believe Europe should have open borders with the Middle East, you'll be called a transphobe if you don't believe men who identify as women should be allowed to compete in women's sports teams, etc. It's all bullshit and it's about manipulating your thoughts or excluding you if you refuse to conform. So whether it's racist to not be attracted to certain races is a meaningless question to me.
 
I'm white.

Love whites obviously.

Asians are amazing (Korean/Japanese).

Middle eastern are nice when they're dressed up and look clean.

Some light skinned black are nice. Don't like African dark.

Indians make me feel queasy. Very rare to find an attractive Indian.

I would have thought a hard cunt like you would fancy himself some Pritti Patel action. 😂
 

Phobos Base

Member
No, because you can't choose who you're attracted to. If you specifically said "I would never date someone of x race" then that's somewhat different, because it's a concious choice.
 

Batiman

Banned
How is something as obvious as skin colour different to other sexual markers?

People are not attracted to people that are short, too long, too fat, too slim, not having enough or too many muscles, small dicks, big dicks, huge tits, no tits at all, whatever.

But if you are not into a certain skin colour because of your sexual preferences you are racist?
I never said it was racist lol.
 
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