Is it racist to not want to date outside of your race ?

[odeon]

No, it's not racist.

[Frolic_Fun]

It's personal preference. The people who say it's racist are up their own arseholes, these are the kinds that are trigger-happy when using the word anyway.

What pisses me off though is that SO MANY fucking people use the word completely wrong. Due to this there's so many innocent people afraid of being labelled racist because they say the wrong thing or do things such as affirmative action (which is ironically racist). To be a racist you have to actually consider yourself superior to another race and show intention of that when speaking and doing actions. Cracking a few jokes or saying words like nigger without any racist intent != racism.

That said, it is human nature to fear differences and change, so we all *are* racist in some form. Even when you try not to, there's always that superstitious bastard in the back of your head that makes you nervous around certain people and so on.

[Buzz Killington]

To be a racist you have to actually consider yourself superior to another race and show intention of that when speaking and doing actions. Cracking a few jokes or saying words like nigger without any racist intent != racism.

Thank you!  General prejudice goes under the name "bigotry", racism is reserved for actual racial superiority.  If all it took was using racial slurs, nearly every kitchen I've ever worked in was literally crawling with racists, especially the minorities.  Now if you ever want to learn some new racial slurs, ask a black waiter about who tips and who doesn't; you'll hear words you never even knew existed for various peoples before... 

[eris]

Here is this test I found on the Harvard website. It is a test to see if you are racist but not by asking questions. You have to click on the words associated with flashing questions. Dont do it drunk, or they will say you are a bigot for sure.

https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/Study?tid=0

I have two friends that are black and they make lots of really racist slurs against black people. They are cousins so I know it is just something about that strange family. She calls herself a tarbaby. Sweet girl, tho. . I was raised to be tolerant and lots of my friends even prefer black men so it is just my personal preference of perfect pulchritude. I just wonder why people are they way they are. Sober living has got my brain working overload.

[Phallacy]

Yes, it IS racist!
















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Just kidding!

[Peter]

I prefer light-skinned women with northern European features.  I'm somewhat less interested in eastern Asian women, not particularly attracted to Indian and Middle Eastern women and very seldom attracted to black African women. 

Humans have an instinct to seek partners who're genetically similar enough to not cause compatibility problems in the offspring, and an instinct to seek partners who're genetically dissimilar enough to provide the offspring with a diverse immune system and to prevent homozygous occurrences of detrimental genes.  The balance of the two, along with a complex mix of other factors, contributes to an individual's racial mating preferences.

[midlifeaspie]

I have never heard of mixed race babies having genetic compatibility problems.

[Al Swearegen]

I have never heard of mixed race babies having genetic compatibility problems.

I thought it was the mongrels like my good self which are resilient

[midlifeaspie]

I have never heard of mixed race babies having genetic compatibility problems.

I thought it was the mongrels like my good self which are resilient

Me too.

['Butterflies']

Humans have an instinct to seek partners who're genetically similar enough to not cause compatibility problems in the offspring, and an instinct to seek partners who're genetically dissimilar enough to provide the offspring with a diverse immune system and to prevent homozygous occurrences of detrimental genes.

I dunno 

My tastes are pretty diverse. I'm attracted to lighter skinned black people, but not so much to darker skinned black people. I'm attracted to Indian people, but less so to Chinese/Japanese. I'm attracted to Native Americans, but not so much to Eskimos.

I'm not sure if the people I'm attracted to are any more genetically compatible than the people I'm less attracted to.

[midlifeaspie]

  + = compatible 

[Peter]

Modern humans are all too closely related for genetic distance to cause problems, but you'll get nowhere if you try mating with a bonobo, and in the past, interbreeding between homo sapiens and other closely related hominids would likely have been a hit and miss affair, with many pairings producing sterile or unhealthy offspring or no offspring at all. 

It's something that all sexually reproducing organisms have had to deal with; the behavioural adaptations that animals have for finding a healthy balance between inbreeding and outbreeding are imperfect and variable, and can cause an animal to be attracted to a member of another species when there isn't the slightest chance of genetic compatibility, or they can cause an animal to fail to be attracted to perfectly suitable mate, but on average they work out so that most members of a species are more attracted to more genetically compatible mates.

['Butterflies']

but you'll get nowhere if you try mating with a bonobo,

OMG Peter. Please tell me you're not speaking from personal experience here 

[Psychophant]

Humans have an instinct to seek partners who're genetically similar enough to not cause compatibility problems in the offspring, and an instinct to seek partners who're genetically dissimilar enough to provide the offspring with a diverse immune system and to prevent homozygous occurrences of detrimental genes.

I dunno 

My tastes are pretty diverse. I'm attracted to lighter skinned black people, but not so much to darker skinned black people. I'm attracted to Indian people, but less so to Chinese/Japanese. I'm attracted to Native Americans, but not so much to Eskimos.

I'm not sure if the people I'm attracted to are any more genetically compatible than the people I'm less attracted to.

Mine too.  My girlfriend is half native american.  I've been attracted to asian, black and others.   You desire what you desire.   

[Peter]

but you'll get nowhere if you try mating with a bonobo,

OMG Peter. Please tell me you're not speaking from personal experience here 

Fortunately not, although crossing humans and chimps has been attempted.