Like, the amount of times you hear this is mind boggling. And it’s always liberals/“leftists” who say they’re not racist.

“But I just don’t find them attractive.”

You have NOT seen/interacted with literally every single member of that community. How in the fuck can you just broadly say you aren’t attracted to them?

It’s just a preference.

Like, you’re literally saying you don’t find people of a specific race, or from a specific place, or who follow a specific religion attractive. What the fuck kind of “preference” is this? I don’t understand. That’s terfs saying they don’t find “trans” people attractive. No that’s terfs being literal terfs. Stop it.

I’m a POC too! I can’t be racist against my own race!

Yeah, you are being racist against your own race here. I don’t see why you can’t. Candace Owens regularly spreads anti-Black propaganda for her personal benefit. There are countless such examples.

This shit drives me up the wall. And I haven’t even mentioned the amount of times these devolve into arguments about how ___ race/religion is actually bad and people who are a part of it/follow it are bad. So. Many. Times. And said with a straight face too! By people who say they’re not racist or xenophobic. For some reason people think being a POC means you’re immune from being racist/xenophobic. Which just isn’t true.

I’m not saying your bad for feeling this way. A huge part is the culture we’re born in and grow up in. But a sign of maturity is recognising this ingrained racism and getting rid of it.

Sorry, just sometimes liberals get on my fucking nerves.

  • aaro [they/them, she/her]
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    4 years ago

    If you make this argument, you have to be able to defend against people following up with "well sexuality is a choice then and people can just stop being gay lol". I hate it too, but I want this community well armed against chuds, rhetorically speaking, so I'm bringing it up.

    My response is that there's nothing wrong with being gay so there's absolutely no need to stop being gay for any reason, and also that gender preference is greater than what is within our range of flexibility, but both of those leave room for them to be assholes about. Anyone have any ideas how to respond?

    • LibsEatPoop3 [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Let chuds be chuds. I’m more concerned with leftists tackling their internalised racism/sexism/homophobia etc.

      Being gay is biological. Not being into Arab men or black women or Asian culture or whatever is not biological.

      • VernetheJules [they/them]
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        4 years ago

        I want to refrain from commenting here too much since I don't consider myself a POC but I like this comment.

        Like I think wherever I was raised I would've ended up being trans because there were signs of that well before I could experience any kind of real attraction.

        But being in a community with lots of connections to white, middle eastern, and latin cultures (where almost no one had very dark skin, at most tan or dark tan), I guess that makes sense that I'm most attracted to women with physical features of and who have ties to those cultures. Partly because I can relate, but yeah also because that's who I grew up around.

        Makes me wonder if things would've been different had I been raised in a community with, say, a large contingent of black folks.

        Thanks for the insight, and sorry for big struggle session you've got on your hands!