# I would prefer to live in a homogeneous neighbourhood, am I evil?

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**Created:** [April 1, 2009, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-would-prefer-to-live-in-a-homogeneous-neighbourhood-am-i-evil/491605 "2009-04-01T18:36:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2009, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-would-prefer-to-live-in-a-homogeneous-neighbourhood-am-i-evil/491605/54 "2009-04-04T17:25:20Z")

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> [@Adoption of adults. Why is this legal? Was it always?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adoption-of-adults-why-is-this-legal-was-it-always/52630/2):
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> No.

Why not? They’re making value judgments based on skin color. isn’t that what you said?

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> Right. I shouldn’t have called the OP a racist and threatened him with legal action.

Right. You didn’t say anyone was racist. You just said a particular behavior was racist. Kind of like when a guy who isn’t gay likes doing gay sex stuff.

As far as legal action is concerned, ,\* thoughtcrime\* is a literary reference, not a legal one. I’m guessing you’re in your mid to late twenties, right?

To label someone as racist is to make a vile accusation. Simply preferring the company of one’s own kind, no matter how one defines “kind”, is not a racist act.

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