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by anal_reactor 732 days ago
Not necessarily.

I can recall that a few years back I was browsing some right-wing forum and someone wrote "they will force you to have sex with them" which seemed absolutely ridiculous.

Then I was browsing a left-wing forum and the concensus was "refusing to date black people is racism and therefore the worst thing you can possibly do, refusing to date transsexuals is kinda allowed but we'd rather see you do".

I had a "shit, they were right" moment.
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TheNewsIsHere 732 days ago
I submit that the idea that it’s racist at face value not to date a Black person is ridiculous. If we indulge that type of view with any sort of seriousness, we’re just lending undue legitimacy to that idea.

It is no more or less ridiculous than me being sexist because I am not interested in women. I’m not sexist. I’m just not into women. Reasonable people can identify the difference. We shouldn’t mistake crazy views for sane ones.

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anal_reactor 732 days ago
The argument goes like this: if a sizeable part of the society refuses to date black people, then black people are in a disadvantaged position.

> It is no more or less ridiculous than me being sexist because I am not interested in women

I tried saying this but "race is race and gender is gender, two totally different things".

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beej71 731 days ago
Who is forcing you to date trans people? No one. They were not right. C'mon.
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