Hello my comrades have a good week 
Remember no crackers
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Pretty wild seeing
putting "I'm legally here" in their dating profiles.
I remember pre-BLM when White women used to have in their profiles "I'm not racist but I don't date Blacks or Mexicans, sorry, it's just cultural differences" then years later see the same profile floating around post-BLM and it was missing the disclaimer. Haha
Like Paul Mooney said, I like my crackers a little salty. I prefer they just announce it, not that I'm interested in dating anyone White anyway.
[CW: Me rambling about this disingenuous 'it's not bigotry—it's just a preference' shit—talking about queerphobia/biphobia/racism]
On this note, somewhere else online, I was recently seeing wild amounts of discourse about whether or not it's biphobic for a lesbian to refuse to date a bisexual woman on the basis of her sexuality.You had so many people myopically spewing out, "it CAN'T BE BiphObIC BEcauSE IT's JUST a prEfereNCE!"
And I don't understand how someone can be so narrow-minded when it comes to understanding that a statement like "Bisexual people are more likely to be cheaters" doesn't magically become not biphobic just because you put a "I don't want to date a bisexual person because..." in front of it. How does that logically even add up in their minds? The fact that they can so unabashedly and with so much conviction state these really emotionally charged takes about this subject just speaks on the oblivious nature of bigotry. It's never about what's true—it's always about vibes.
Bigotry always manifests as a "preference," but people just act like, for some reason, the nature of these bigoted preferences becomes not bigoted when it's in the context of dating. An employer saying, "I only want to hire whites because they're the smartest and most hard-working race" has a "preference" for white workers, and many people would think it's ridiculous to say "This employer can't be racist because it's just a preference!"
And this goes both ways. Not only does this logic excuse bigoted EXCLUSIONARY dating preferences, but it also gives things like FETISHISM a pass. One thing I'm tired of is people acting like racial fetishism is not a form of racism. It is. Racial fetishism is rooted in harmful generalizations. There's no denying that. People really think that just because a form of racism is "benevolent," then that makes it not racism. This being false is one of the easiest things to understand about racism, but cracKKKers continue to get away with it because your average cracKKKer does not actually give a damn about unlearning white supremacy. So long as a form of racism is socially acceptable and easy for them to get away with, cracKKKers don't tend to care about it. Anti-racism and statements against white supremacy serve as a virtue signaling game for them.
Am I glad you mentioned employment because that is precisely where my mind went as well.
Then they never question why they have these """"preferences."""" They'll say the same weasel shit about trans people, too. I do not understand how a person can reject entire groups like that.
I don't mean to hornypost, but Tyra Banks, Hunter Schafer, Salma Hayek, Ana de Armas, Halle Berry, and Pam Grier are all hot. How the hell do you match with people like that and be all "Sorry not into ______" as though they're beneath you? You're on a fucking app you should consider yourself lucky to match with anyone lmao.