I never thought I’d see the day when someone around here would have the balls to express themselves about race in anything but afalling all over themselves to be the most color blind way *. Aside from trolls that is, which i don’t think you are. I can’t say I share your views, but I’d be very interested to hear them.
I’m not saying that anyone here lies about their views on race, just that we all sometimes go a little overboard with the political corectness.
I never thought I’d see the day when someone around here would have the balls to express themselves about race in anything but afalling all over themselves to be the most color blind way *. Aside from trolls that is, which i don’t think you are. I can’t say I share your views, but I’d be very interested to hear them.
I’m not saying that anyone here lies about their views on race, just that we all sometimes go a little overboard with the political corectness.
Not me, I say things that could be construed as offensive all the time, here and IRL. Somehow it works out, but it’s definitely not because I go around “trying” to be PC.
But seriously, I know I find myself measuring my words around here because, let’s face it, we are an ultraliberal group for the most part, and nothing gets the collective dander up more than the seeming appearance of racism.
I respect your saying this. It’s certainly preferable to paying lip service on the Internet and then yelling at me from your car on the way home. Not you specifically; I mean others of your ilk.
I find the attitude somewhat reprehensible, but to each his own.
Yes, how perceptive of you - I am dating a white man so I can find an easier way to scramble up the pyramid of races. Sleeping my way to the top! I don’t know how I live with myself.
Actually since you are in Korea, I assume the opposite is in effect. Your boyfriend is the one looking to increase his local status. Go you for helping that guy out!
You people don’t even blackberry right; I’m a refreshing fruit, nothing more.
I grew up in a community of white Catholic Republicans, I know all about wording one’s bigotry carefully, lol. Me, I’ll say what I think. I’ve said the exact same things to my WASC (Catholic) family as I’ve said to my I-fucking-hate-crackers black dude. I just don’t see how it’s that hard to not be considered racist if you aren’t.
ETA: Not trying to imply you’re a bigot and wording it carefully.
The last time I heard much about the issue was back when Nicole Brown Simpson was killed. Out of nowhere, I heard a bunch of “what was that white girl doing with that black guy” kind of comments.
By the way, I am not part of an interracial couple, but we are white and our kids are Korean, so we definitely think about it.
We really don’t get many stares having non-white kids, though. Maybe when the kids are older.
I really don’t think they’re wrong. And as I said, I never felt this way till recently, so a reversal of my feelings is probably possible.
I think it was mostly contrariness that reshaped my view. There’s the common belief that racial mixing is genetically and culturally ruinous, but there’s another common belief that the interracial relationship is the most beautiful and beneficial of all relationships—the endpoint of human evolution, the truest measure of social progression, something we should all cheer over and applaud. I got tired of hearing that.
No, no troll.
My views? I wasn’t overstating when I wrote of my “inhumane” thoughts about mixed-race children. It’s the best thing for me to not elaborate on these thoughts too much, especially since many involve specific people, but I can say that it’s become hard for me to even think of them as people. I don’t see them as subhumans, though, more as beings floating outside the borders of humanity. I’m not so far gone that I don’t realize that they are people and that they are fully human, but it honestly is hard for me to see them as people in the same way I see monoracial people (of all races) as people. I know they’re people, but I *feel *otherwise. I wouldn’t befriend a mixed-race person or adopt a mixed-race child. I try to avoid them entirely in my social life, and I feel twinges of uneasiness whenever I do have to interact with a mixed-race person.
But again, these are fairly new feelings. Before about 2007, multiracial people were just regular people to me, and I felt no resentment toward interracial couples. It’s just this strange thing that’s intensified in the last year of two, and it might also be something I should get some professional help for.
I get that.
It’s an unfair and twisted way of thinking, I know. But to defend myself just a little, it’s not that I believe that any given person in an IR is motivated by reasons like these. It’s more that the existence of such people—even if they actually form a minority of the total number of people in interracial relationships—has infected my opinion of all people who date interracially. I know my feelings are irrational.
