Alabama pastor holds ‘whites only’ conference

[Milkster]

Homosexuality is physiological. Are you implying that people are born racist and hateful with their perfect features already in mind for a perfect mate and that it's not a learned behavior?

Saying you don't find big noses or dark skin attractive is every bit a preference a preferring dick over vagina, unless you're a sexist.

Yeah.

[Kuya]

How are preferences for skin colour any less physiological than preferences for genitalia?

[test123]

Homosexuality is physiological. Are you implying that people are born racist and hateful with their perfect features already in mind for a perfect mate and that it's not a learned behavior?

It is not a fact that Homosexuality is physiological, but I think some gays are more genetically feminine etc then others. That being said, people have innate traits that are developed over thousands of years of evolution which gives you preference for people who looks more like you.

[Kuya]

Genetically feminine? What does that mean? They wear girl jeans?

[RKenshin]

Not finding physical characteristics that may or may not happen to be common of a given race attractive isn't racism, particularly when it's something not even limited to that race (which I'm sure in this discussion, applies).

I don't find nappy hair attractive on women, at all. Never have, no exceptions. Doesn't matter if you're white, brown, or black; I don't like it. That said, nappy hair is far more common among (though not 100% limited to) black people. At the same time, a black person that styles their hair differently and/or doesn't have nappy hair could be attractive to me (and many are).

But saying I am (or people that feel similar are) racist for not liking the ones with nappy hair silly, especially when I have the exact same feeling for anyone with nappy hair regardless of race.

That's not discrimination on race, it's not liking a certain hairstyle/type.

[Milkster]

Not finding physical characteristics that may or may not happen to be common of a given race attractive isn't racism, particularly when it's something not even limited to that race (which I'm sure in this discussion, it is).

I don't find nappy hair attractive on women, at all. Never have, no exceptions. Doesn't matter if you're white, brown, or black; I don't like it. That said, nappy hair is far more common among (though not 100% limited to) black people. At the same time, a black person that styles their hair differently and/or doesn't have nappy hair could be attractive to me (and many are).

But saying I or people that feel similar are racist for not liking the ones that don't is silly, especially when I have the exact same feeling for anyone with nappy hair regardless of race.

That's not discrimination on race, it's not liking a certain hairstyle/type.

That's fine but people have said they won't ever date or be with X race in this thread. This is where the racist thing came in.

People can be all natural if they choose to be and not have nappy hair. That's just not caring.

[Niiro]

If they don't date X race because they don't find X race's physical characteristics attractive, that's not racist, it's just very shallow (not at all willing to look past their personal preferences for physical attractiveness regardless of what a person is really like).

If they don't date X race because they attribute negative character qualities, tendencies, or inferiorities with that race, then that would be racist.

[ronin sparthos]

But you are discriminating based on their race, which is racist.

It's not racism until you start asserting your race or other races as superior to eachother on a wide scale. Discrimination only gets as much play as it does in the media because the reasons for discrimination in popular culture wind up rooting themselves in racist ideologies. This Alabama pastor is holding his 'white only' party because he feels his race is besieged in some way and the KKK stance on white superiority immediately makes the gathering is textbook racist.

An individual who doesn't date Asians because of their appearance is exercising their individual opinion to choose from the available stock of human beings and people are free to be offended or look down upon such behavior but it isn't racism until that individual turns a personal opinion into a widespread, dogmatic conclusion of superiority that cannot be challenged.

[Ashmada]

Just know that you've been conditioned to feel certain ways about certain races, physical traits, etc throughout your life. And yes, not dating someone based on their skin color is racist.

Firstly, hold your horses.
I said nothing of my own preferences, no point assuming them; just because I said I didn't find an all-<sking colour> dating site racist doesn't mean I'd join one.

Secondly, you're not making a case or addressing the point, just re-stating your claim with nothing to back it up. Quite rude, tbh.

What would some of those reasons be? You know without having any racist undertones.

I hate to bring up the same argument as test123, but on this he's right, so let's:
"What would the reasons you're not attracted to women be? You know, without having any misogynistic undertones."
Physical attraction is a complex and poorly-understood mechanism influenced by many factors, many (all?) of them unconscious. Assuming racism because someone prefers X skin tone (which might not even be their own) to Y skin tone is silly.

I'm certainly not going to judge (or apply labels to) people based on their unconscious processes.

[Milkster]

Homosexuality is physiological. Are you implying that people are born racist and hateful with their idea of perfect features already in mind for an idea of perfect mate and that it's not a learned behavior?

This was fun and kept me entertained for a bit.

There you go Ashmada.

[Ashmada]

Once again, that doesn't answer anything and completely misses the point.

[kuronosan]

I'm thinking you must believe that there are no psychological factors involved in physical preference (shallow) versus social preference (discrimination).

If you believe that homosexuality is physiological then you may also be surprised to realize that psychology is also physiological.

The neurotransmitters that tell your brain you hate vagina are the same ones that tell you that you don't like nappy hair, after all.

There is a huge difference between sociology and physiology that you're missing here.

[hey]

I'm thinking you must believe that there are no psychological factors involved in physical preference (shallow) versus social preference (discrimination).

If you believe that homosexuality is physiological then you may also be surprised to realize that psychology is also physiological.

The neurotransmitters that tell your brain you hate vagina are the same ones that tell you that you don't like nappy hair, after all.

There is a huge difference between sociology and physiology that you're missing here.

This. No one has any real control over who they find attractive.

[test123]

This. No one has any real control over who they find attractive.

But there is a high probability that the ones you find attractive resembles yourself.

Researchers have found that people are turned on by photographs of people who look like their close genetic counterparts, Wired reports.

Which means you are not only attracted to people who look like your parents -- you're also kind of attracted to yourself.

"People appear to be drawn to others who resemble their kin or themselves," psychologist R. Chris Fraley of the University of Illinois, lead author of the study, told Wired.

Before you get all grossed out, one possible explanation for the results is that people's brains tend to process familiar images more easily, Wired says.

http://www.sodahead.com/living/are-y...stion-1126989/

[AidenCarby]

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[Pirian]

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[Churchill]

So Rk explains a method for not finding people attractive and Milk defaults back to yeah but people earlier in the thread were racist.

[Plow]

I can say that Jews have huge noses or that Asians eyes bother me and I don't find those features attractive but it isn't racist until I posit that my own race is superior in some way.

By stating that Jews have huge noses and Asian eyes bother you, you are explicitly implying that other races don't have huge noses or bothersome eyes and are therefore superior in those ways.

[Churchill]

pretty sure crackers dont have slanted eyes

[hey]

By stating that Jews have huge noses and Asian eyes bother you, you are explicitly implying that other races don't have huge noses or bothersome eyes and are therefore superior in those ways.

Superior in those ways does not mean superior.