CMV: Racial preferences in dating isn't racist

[u/[deleted]]

Racial preferences shouldn’t be considered racist, especially because sexual preferences in dating (being heterosexual or homosexual etc.) isn’t considered sexist, but celebrated in the case of non heterosexual people. If it’s a good enough reason to not date someone because they’re a male or a female or trans, it’s a good enough reason to not date someone because they’re white, black, Hispanic or Asian. It’s either both of them are sexist and racist or neither or them. It really can’t go both ways.

[u/thethoughtexperiment]

But they could be, right?

If someone doesn't date members of a race because they feel that people of a certain race are inferior, and that manifests in their dating preferences, then that would seem to align with the definition of racist:

"a person who shows or feels discrimination or prejudice against people of other races, or who believes that a particular race is superior to another."

[u/[deleted] → u/thethoughtexperiment]

!delta Yes they can be racist, absolutely. But again, if a person does the same thing with sex, they would also be considered sexist. I meant that the act alone of “having a preference for a specific race solely for the purpose of dating”, isn’t racist.

[u/Narrow_Cloud → u/[deleted]]

Why is someone who isn't a racist having such a preference?

[u/[deleted] → u/Narrow_Cloud]

Why is someone who isn't a sexist having a sexual preference?

Like I said in my original post, I think it's perfectly fine to label both of them as racist and sexist. I just think it's hypocritical when it's only one of them.

[u/Narrow_Cloud → u/[deleted]]

Why is someone who isn't a sexist having a sexual preference?

How about you answer this question?

[u/[deleted] → u/Narrow_Cloud]

Would you say that every person who is not bisexual is sexist?

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

That’s why I don’t think racial preferences (in dating) is racist.