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.

  • carbohydra [des/pair]
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    4 years ago

    You're not wrong, but imma have to whip out the old "healthcare pls" :yes-honey-left:

    YOU SHOULD BE ATTRACTED TO X DEMOGRAPHIC is not only useless, it's bad vibes, and most importantly, counterproductive

      • carbohydra [des/pair]
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        4 years ago

        We should focus on struggles where we have some type of leverage to create meaningful change in people's lives. I don't see how telling people to be attracted to people does either of those

    • TheDeed [he/him, comrade/them]M
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      4 years ago

      Minimizing the experiences people have as being treated lesser than in society and urging them to focus on something else is counterproductive, and is a form of reductionism. Knock it off

      • carbohydra [des/pair]
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        4 years ago

        I hope I'm not minimizing any experience, my point is that we haven't found a strategy for this specific problem that has worked yet.

        • purr [undecided]
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          4 years ago

          reading about fat liberation, disability justice, black power etc is a strategy

            • purr [undecided]
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              4 years ago

              its starting to // at least i think theres been some progress on certain fronts such as fat acceptance

              • carbohydra [des/pair]
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                4 years ago

                yes fat acceptance is definitely improving, but I wonder how much we had to do with that, in comparison to the obesity epidemic brought on by capitalism?

                • purr [undecided]
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                  4 years ago

                  i think that a fatter and fatter society can contribute to our normalization of fatness, but i do think that the positive ways in which society has examined fatness / has decolonized fatness is very much due to the work done by fat liberationists and fat people and the experiences of fat people shows that fat liberation is not just about being surrounded by fat people

                  one could make a similar argument that the more diverse america gets, the more we;ll accept minorities.

    • Dirtbag [they/them]
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      4 years ago

      :very-smart: "we can only focus on one thing at a time"

      • carbohydra [des/pair]
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        4 years ago

        you can get up in your head about subconscious racism all you want, but my point is that the people who need to hear this won't care, and the people who don't need to hear it will just get even weirder and performative and alienated. it just feels way too high up on the Maslow hierarchy for me but i'm just a volcel so idk