[Commenting on an advert showing interracial romance.]
The overall message is the same. Interracial sex is not only perfectly okay, in fact it's cool .
Now, say you're a kid who, like the vast majority of people, is not really that into interracial sex. Say you're a kid who even finds the idea of it makes you uncomfortable. The lesson being taught by the ads is that if you feel that way then you're the one who is abnormal, even though it's been perfectly normal and natural to feel that way for millenia. If you're not cool with it, then you have to accept that you're not where your demographic cohorts are, you're not on the cutting edge.
The multiculturalist might reply that the ads are a good thing because they "include" interracial couples, and perhaps help people involved in them feel "normal" for a change. Well, good for them.
Personally, I care far more about the majority of white kids out there who will see these ads and wonder whether there's something wrong with them for not being attracted to people of other races. And what's even worse is that we all know what would happen if this majority of kids were to speak up and actually state this very natural, normal preference for people of one's own race.
That's why these ads suck.
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I'm not sure which is worse: that he's using the rhetoric usually used by homophobes, or that he's saying that interracial relationships aren't normal.
"If you're not cool with it, then you have to accept that you're not where your demographic cohorts are, you're not on the cutting edge."
Why yes, you are backward, ignorant fools, and you'll have to accept that your racism is no longer socially acceptable. The Jim Crow Laws ended in 1964. It's 2010. You're backward.
Ha! You have the nerve to say that your ideas are normal! You even used a traditionally liberal argument. I wonder how "uncomfortable" most teens are with miscgenation when confronted with the correct photography, eh? Apart from a few girls who are conditioned to think that black equals gangsta, most will not be put off, at most, they'd just have a bias towards one race or the other.
White kids actually having to question their prejudices? Oh noez!
(srs comment: I mean, I don't care if someone has specific preferences in partners' appearance, but some of those preferences, and some of the ways people talk about them, are based on social norms and prejudices. When you see a wide array of white people who look and act differently, but only the media's limited range of stereotypical actions and small casting pools for any other race, you're going to, subconsciously or consciously, believe those stereotypes. Even if you grow up in a diverse area, and probably even more so if you don't.)
"Now, say you're a kid who, like the vast majority of people, is not really that into interracial sex"
Kids generally aren't into any sex until much later.
Your ancestors, in fact, where not that uncomfortable with interracial sex. Otherwise, how is it possible than more than 25% of the Virginian population has at least a black ancestor?
@Giardano Bruno - That reminds me of conversations on the Net where guys who are attracted to a black woman (either real or animated) sit around trying to argue the woman is actually East Indian, Arabic or anything but black. Especially if the woman is animated. It's pathetic when you see guys try to argue that a black woman is either not black or somehow different from other black people just to avoid admitting they like a black woman.
I guess because they either consciously or unconsciously perceive black women as stereotypes they see on TV and in movies.
#1207830: Depends if they prefer gangstas or not. Many won't, although they probably aren't as obvious about it. Although I'm sure love-shy, if asked, could spew something about alpha males to refute that.
Interracial sex is perfectly okay, and if two people are really in love then it's also cool.
So what's the problem with that now?
It's not the 1960's anymore grandpa. We're well over this shit.
Uhm, what? Really? Like, you're serious?
Wow. You are wrong, you know. Interracial sex has only ever been a problem in contexts where a society felt it was threatened by it somehow, and even then that didn't stop individuals from it--the Jews, white Americans...medieval Spaniards of all three confessional groups, although that was interesting because it wasn't about race, as such; it stopped being a miscegenation case at the instant of conversion. It was technically illegal for a Christian to convert to Judaism or Islam, though, and the Muslim peasantry defended their right to kill any of their women who crossed the lines.
Meanwhile, outside such tense situations, people would screw outside their race and consider it a luxury. Just look at sex-slave import rates some time.
Oh my yes, just please somebody think of the children! Look, they're your fucking kids. Exercise some parental authority and tell them your stupid white nationalism pseuodoscience. If white nationalism is so weak that it can be defeated by ads showing interracial couples, than it deserves to die.
Vick, you made a massive jump between the sentences of "Now, say you're a kid who, like the vast majority of people, is not really that into interracial sex." and "Say you're a kid who even finds the idea of it makes you uncomfortable."
I'm a white bisexual who isn't usually attracted to non-white people (there are, of course, some exceptions) Attraction is what it is and cannot be helped. However, just because I'm not usually attracted to non-white people doesn't mean, in the least, that I'm uncomfortable with the idea of either myself or other people being attracted to someone who is outside their race. Why would I be?
Who someone else is attracted to, outside of perhaps children and animals, has nothing to do with me. Why should it make me uncomfortable? And why would I be any more uncomfortable when I'm attracted to a rare non-white person than when I'm attracted to guys with blue eyes or busty blonde women?
Confused?
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