Do you think it’s racist to say you’re not attracted to an ethnicity?

Meh, people get offended too easily nowadays. I’m similar, I’m simply not attracted to black people, never have been. I mean, there’s always the possibility that one day someone might come along and change my opinion, but in the context of a discussion it seems reasonable to say “I’m not attracted to X people” if you’ve never found any of them attractive before.

how on earth does race have nothing to do with looks? It has virtually everything to do with your physical appareance.

rest my case..

it's kind of funny how you don't see your own cognitive dissonance here at all

I'm not confusing anything with anything. I literally said "racism or separatism" in my last sentence to you in my previous post...

Ok, racial is not racism, but racism is racial, so we can discuss racialism here, and again, if you are racist, it doesn't mean you hate them, it just means you are indifferent to them because of their race. I said to someone else on this page I believe (and it's not your responsibility to read every new post, but you really should) that if you scrape beneath the surface of this racial indifference you might either get something harmless or nasty, indifference as in: not wanting to befriend someone of a certain race, without hating them, just a casual disinterest. Most people are racially indifferent, and it could all stem from racism, but that doesn't mean we hate each other. We just dont value each other. Not all of us who dont have friends from a different race do it consciously, whereas your example of academic or scientific racism being nonviolent hatred is an extreme prejudice that most of us do not partake in nor entertain anymore. There is no blatant academic or scientific racism left because it's illegal now, it's not the nazi regime or the civil rights era of the USA and slavery is abolished, yet we still in this day and age, most of us don't have a diverse group of good friends or a diverse dating life. But we're not hateful. We are just not interested. Racism is not hatred. I didnt say it can't be. Sometimes it really is just what the dictionary definition is: the mentality that someone is inferior or superior due to race. That's it.

no one's attacking you for dating people of a certain ethnicity you're being "attacked" because you're too close minded to understand that you can't write off whole swathes of society that probably will have combinations of features you find attractive and can just get away with it. like, christ alive, you guys realise what you're saying sometimes?

how on earth can you be this dumb the colour of your skin im going to repeat this again the colour of your skin has nothing to do with your looks there are different types of black girls and asians of different colours so you cannot generalise

i know right. like i dont know what to say to them im sorry i love everything about my bf and how welcoming his family are. also people have got to consider that white people are generally so chill and accepting which is so nice compared to other other people/cultures (imo, got to add that before i offend some people). i really dont find asians attractive (south asian/middle eastern/east asians) and a lot of that is looks but also how they act/mannerisms and their cultures are quite restricting/hateful because of islam/arranged marriages and what not. its so nice to get out of that and find somebody who doesn't care and loves you for who you are not your damn ethnicity.

im literally central asian myself so i've seen just about everything lol

A lot of cultures only date within their race anyway such as indian marriage.

im so sorry i dont find black people attractive seriously

I guess its true what they say ignorant is bliss because you think white people are chill so dumb omg white people are not a religion they have different ideologies and they can be racist have you never heard of apartheid or even looked at history so these white people you speak of they must not be conservative because if you met a conservative family you would not repeat your statement

how on earth can you be this dumb the colour of your skin im going to repeat this again the colour of your skin does not have everything to do with your looks there are different types of black girls and asians of different colours so you cannot generalise

But it does. My boyfriend hates tan girls, but loves pale girls (and this is just within the white skin colour alone).

exactly. and not for hateful reasons either.

Lol I know what cognitive dissonance means so you don't sound clever throwing in a totally irrelevant term here. Tell me what your "case" is and how you've "rested" it and how I'm in denial... what are you on about? Tell me how south asians and I come from the same culture...?

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This was a good read: https://www.quora.com/Are-white-people-actually-more-attractive-or-are-we-just-conditioned-to-believe-so

I think there is an element of historically being conditioned to think that being white is more attractive but it becomes very hard to distinguish whether you only prefer white people because of your subconscious bias due to environmental conditioning or whether its just because you prefer whites.

Lmao i cant even reply to this

LOOOOL you guys are so butt hurt

what??
Its just what we've been exposed to
https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2016/may/10/survey-finds-that-78-of-models-in-fashion-adverts-are-white

I don't agree with your definition of racism or your comment that most people don't have a diverse group of good friends.
I think in multicultural city like London or Manchester which are home to so many diverse communities, people who don't have any friends from other racial or religious backgrounds have made that choice consciously. Even people who choose not to make friends at all.
But its certainly true that many people don't have a diverse dating life; my best friend dates all races and most religions but seems to only date doctors.