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tedzeppelin asked: If your house was on fire, and your family/pets were safe, what would be the one book you'd go back for?

Red leather-bound embossed Lord of the Rings trilogy, naturally. technically my mom’s book but in my imagination she’s got a dog under each arm. 

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goodnight.

Actually, you’re lumping hugely diverse groups of people into a category instead of treating each person as an individual regardless of race. Saying you don’t find them attractive is essentially saying they are all unattractive and/or they all look the same. Just because you haven’t met a person of a certain ethnicity you wanted to sleep with doesn’t mean they don’t exist, but you use a representative heuristic: “I don’t like the ___ people I know” —> “All ____ people are unattractive to me.” Racism isn’t always as simple as hatred. It’s nuanced. So yeah, these blanket statements (“I like _____” or “I don’t like ______”) that treat entire cultures as though all members are homogenous? Lil bit racist. 

P.S. Sure every culture has certain features and aesthetics that are quite common, because that’s how genes work, but it’s not uniform. Plenty of Middle Eastern people are just as fair-skinned as many Caucasians. It’s not like you hear people being discriminating about European descent: “I just really don’t like Americans with Swedish ancestry.” Why not just be straightforward and say you don’t like “brown people” if that’s what you mean? At least it’s honestly racist, not blanketed in political correctness. 

P.P.S. If you’re seriously using the “But I have brown friends!” defense without realizing how meaningless it is, your point is invalid. 

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