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Originally posted by The Unforgiving
ٌRacist? I didn't say anything negative about Asians. All I said is that I'm not interested in them sexually, but judgmental people like you just love to "assume" that they know all about me. I have a lot of Asian friends, and I've told them this very same thing, and they were ok with it. I highly doubt that you're Asians, but if you are, why are you being too sensitive about it? I'm not trying to offend anyone by comment. And if you're not, then please stop talking to me 
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Not the "I have tons of [INSERT ETHNICITY] friends so I'm NOT RACIST !?!zs!"
Also I don't need to be Asian to be able to call out racism. In fact as a white person, I'm in the unique position to use my privilege to respectively call attention to casual racism such as this.
Again, I'm not saying you're necessarily a bad person. I've certainly had racist and transphobic opinions before until someone rightfully called me out on those opinions, and respectively educated me and forced me to think about how my way of thinking was wrong and hurtful. The difference now is you're just digging your head further into the sand and refusing to reflect on any of the very valid arguments that people have pointed out or even consider what people have said.
Again, no one is saying you have to be attracted to someone. If I walked 10 people of various Asian ethnicity in front of you, and you didn't feel any attraction to them, then THAT'S OK.
What's not ok is to make a complete blanket generalization about an entire race of people based on the preconceived notions you've made and just dismiss than altogether. Even if you've met hundreds or thousands of Asians in your life time, the total percentage of Asian people you've met in comparison to the number of people of Asian descent in the world is so miniscule.
And as for your Asian friends not being insulted...well I've never personally been offended when someone's used "gay" or "f*g" as an insult, but that doesn't mean that such language isn't inherently rooted in some type of homophobia whether the person intended to use it as such or not, just like even though you don't necessarily intend to come across as racist with these statements, doesn't mean they aren't inherently rooted in some sort of institutionalized/culturally rooted racism.
And that's Sincererly Ellie:
