22-03-21, 18:28 | #21 | |
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No coz dr.suess animations and rhymes were always trash as hell. And I love how all the low IQ people think all the books were banned and not 6 very specific ones which depicted people of color in degrading styles |
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23-03-21, 01:11 | #22 | |
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If some Dr. Suess books are racist, then Dr. Seuss is a racist. Therefore, ALL Dr. Suess books are racist. And anyone who ever enjoyed any Dr. Suess book as a child is therefore racist. BTW, what sort of books DID you have as a child? Just curious. |
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23-03-21, 03:11 | #23 | |
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23-03-21, 12:55 | #24 |
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If you don't want to call it white supremacy, I'm fine with that. White supremacy cover a lot more territory than sex and I agree is overbroad for this context, but fetishizing a race is still racist.
Even "positive" racism is racist. "Asians are good at math" while being positive, still racist because it removes individual humanity. "I like Asian girls because *insert qualities here*" does the same thing. It's still a broad brush that you paint an entire sex and race with and those qualities are probably learned through means other than actual experience with Asian girls, i.e., tropes and stereotypes. It doesn't make someone a de facto horrible person to prefer Asian girls as romantic partners, and I don't see why there can't be some intellectual honesty about what one likes and why. Last edited by Dennis's Mom; 23-03-21 at 13:16. |
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23-03-21, 14:32 | #26 | |
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Having said that, I've never gone into any situation where I've wanted someone to be some performative cultural caricature, nor do I date interracially because I have some weird pent-up resentment towards my own race or culture and therefore "settle" for something else (I don't exclude men of my background or other white men in general from my dating pool, I'm just open to other things). That's really weird to me when people date interracially for those reasons, which some people do. There's a lot of reasons interracial dating happens. Some of it very innocuous and based purely on physical attraction to a certain race's typical features, which is fine in my opinion and pretty much my reason for doing it, some of it happens for political reasons and I'd avoid that like the plague. There's also certain combinations of races/genders that happen way more often than others as well, and that says a lot. Last edited by Yeauxleaux; 23-03-21 at 14:36. |
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23-03-21, 17:02 | #27 |
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Yeah, you like what you like aesthetically. I used to be all about blond pretty boys when I was young. Didn't marry one. Turns out a sense of humor pwns all.
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