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Blood Valkyrie
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Olya
Pretty sure whether you find someone attractive or not has very little to do with racism.
Physical attraction is not an indication of respect, or open-mindedness, or lack of prejudice.
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Which assumes, wrongly, that physical attraction isn't affected by consciously and subconsciously held beliefs.
Even so, as long as one does not treat a person unfairly, does it matter?
Yes and no. No one is obligated to like anyone else, but it highlights a separate, larger problem. Stereotyping is kind of a bad thing.
Well, racism won't go away. I don't like it, but it won't go away. The best we can do is educate people and stop those who treat others unfairly. Even if these things were done perfectly, people would still find certain physical characteristics to be more beautiful, for varying reasons. Should we care, even then?
Hey, hey, leave the pessimistic defeatist attitude to the pros. It can go away. It just won't because we refuse to be intolerant of even the slightest infractions. An infraction's an infraction. Punish it.
It can go away? I haven't seen any sign of it going away, mostly because, as you say, we refuse to be intolerant of even the slightest infraction. Unlike you, I don't consider race to be an infraction. I consider it to be a neutral category. I also don't think we should punish people because of their race. I'm not a racist.