Things that are so obvious and ingrained that no one even thinks about them.

Here’s a few:

All US americans can go to Mexico EASILY. You’re supposed to have a passport but you don’t even need one (for car/foot crossing). Versus, it’s really hard for Mexicans, who aren’t wealthy, to secure a VISA to enter the US. I’m sure there are corollaries in other geo-regions.

Another one is wealthy countries having access to vaccines far ahead of “poor” countries.

In US, we might pay lip service to equal child-hood education but most of the funding pulls from local taxes so some kids might receive ~$10000 in spending while another receives $2000. I’m not looking it up at the moment, but I’m SURE there are strong racial stratas.

  • arabiclearner
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    10 months ago

    Racial "preferences" in dating. No matter how they cut it, it's racist. Yet people will say "it's ok to have preferences!"

    Yeah sure.... I mean back in the day many people "preferred" to not eat with black ppl.... jesus fucking christ the racial preferences in dating really ticks me off (especially when you see someone who is otherwise "liberal" and "hates hate" date only white people)

    • Teekeeus [comrade/them]
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      10 months ago

      The very concept of "racial preferences us-foreign-policy" is racist calipers shit regardless of context

      Most extreme example is the anglo navy employing us-foreign-policy servants shenanigans

    • spacecadet [he/him]
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      10 months ago

      This is so so widespread that I am very curious about it.

      One hypothesis I have is that people believe their sexual inclinations are completely separate from social and cultural influence. That the sexual preferences are somehow innate or beyond influence--even though they clearly are heavily influenced.

      At the very least fucking keep it to yourself that you don't date black women or prefer dating east asian women you weirdo agghhh

      • BelieveRevolt [he/him]
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        10 months ago

        I like and dislike traits that are strongly stereotypical of certain races

        Please tell us what these traits are hitler-detector

      • arabiclearner
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        10 months ago

        I'm kinda torn on this one. For me, I like and dislike traits that are strongly stereotypical of certain races. So much so that, if I were a less self aware person, I'd just express that preference plainly.

        I mean yeah, I get you, sometimes I'd prefer to live in a neighborhood that didn't have any of those "pesky blacks and hispanics," but I'd rather not express that plainly either, so I'll just secretly choose to live in a segregated white neighborhood. I'm REALLY TORN ON THIS ONE...

      • iheartmold [she/her]
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        10 months ago

        You realize that people within each "racial category" can have completely different features.

      • oregoncom [he/him]
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        10 months ago

        I can smell your unkempt neckbeard through the screen.

      • SexUnderSocialism [she/her]M
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        10 months ago

        I remember when lemm.ee used to be the main source of mask-off libs around here, but it seems like dbzer0 has taken its place lately.