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(Newsweek)   The fashion world, in addition to being behind every political assassination of the last 300 years, is also racist   (newsweek.com) divider line 190
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2008-07-05 10:01:57 PM
They need to open up more high-end designer mud-hut boutiques in Africa.
 
2008-07-05 10:02:01 PM
i17.photobucket.com

This thread makes pretty Hitler sad.
 
2008-07-05 10:06:33 PM
pinch_harmonics:

Yeah. I mean, I find blue eyes very attractive, and I probably won't find blue eyes in Asians or Africans. Does that make me racist?

Yes, go back to your clan rally.


I'm Korean. I'm sure that'll go over really well at the next rally. ;)
 
2008-07-05 10:07:06 PM
I'll admit my prejudice in attraction. I don't like white girls.

/There.
//I said it.
 
2008-07-05 10:07:20 PM
WFern:JohDHJ:40oz_A_Knight:Attraction to a person or a look is not a category of thing that can be classified as "racist". Please return to your postcolonial womyn's homonormative neomarxist post-structuralist biosocialecoanthropology collective undergraduate literature class.

Yeah. I mean, I find blue eyes very attractive, and I probably won't find blue eyes in Asians or Africans. Does that make me racist?

Uh... when you're discussing countless consumers, viewers, and even models, and systematically provide benefits to those of lighter skin... yeah, it's racist. Sorry.


I obviously DNRTFA. If that's what's happening, then I absolutely agree that it's racist and should not be happening.
 
2008-07-05 10:17:33 PM
Oh yea, and a few hours ago, I felt more out of place than ever before. I mean serious comments that we should accept the fact that blacks are not attractive?? Then a bunch of nutty comments on both sides of the issue, although most of them racist, then comments that were way out of the ballpark.

But seriously, it started out as a thread full of racist and bigoted comments as is expected here, but it's glad to see that there are some liters that can chime in and make intelligent, decent comments.

It's one thing if YOU prefer a certain race or features, but that doesn't make these things facts. Just because you expect people here to agree with you, realize that greenlighted threads are public and you are basically making a fool of yourself.

/seriously loves women of color :)
 
2008-07-05 10:29:15 PM
kentriccubed:But I INVENTED the piano key necktie

The first Zoolander reference is 3 posts in! There are more to posts than pictures!

...sorry, had to get that off my chest
 
2008-07-05 10:34:44 PM
In other news, people like to look at people who kinda look like themselves. Furthermore, people tend to get along better with and prefer the company of people similar to themselves.

If i'm selling clothes to white women, using black models who look nothing like my target demo, makes little sense. People will cry racism if they cast a white man to play Ronald Reagan if Denzel was turned down. Spike Lee biatch to Clint Eastwood about there not being any brothers in his WW2 movies... completely ignoring the fact that VERY few blacks were in combat roles in the pacific theatre.

Then again, if you're not white, everything is racist. If you not male, everything is sexist. If you're not hetero, everything is homophobic. Read Allecto's LiveJournal if you need evidence.
 
2008-07-05 10:35:32 PM
It's because brown people are ugly. Duh! I thought everyone knew that.

/Jebus is white and weren't never a Joo!
 
2008-07-05 10:49:20 PM
Necktie makers are sexist since they market almost entirely to MEN!
 
2008-07-05 10:56:41 PM
joegekko:Amigajoe:-What's the difference between a model and a SuperModel?

X-Ray vision, super strength, flight, etcetera. Duh.


"You think it's easy to look like this AND fight crime?"
- Paulina Porizkova

/srsly, she said it.
 
2008-07-05 10:59:32 PM
La Fee Verte:America takes the cake when it comes to racism.
Stick your head back in the sand.

This is pathetically naïve.

India, with more than a billion of the worlds people has an institutionalized class system based on ethnic background. Yes your place in life there is based on race. And ethnic violence is rife. Half the world engages in genocides and wars based on race. Live in the Baltic states and whether you live or die might depend on whether you are Serbian or Croatian Ever seen how Korean people are treated in Japan (if any Koreans ever bother to go there) and vice versa. And look into China a little, racism is taught institutionally there. The Chinese race is superior and destined to rule the rest of weakling humanity. Yes, they really believe that.

While much the world slaughters each other based on race, in the U.S we go into a firestorm of soul-searching controversy if a radio commentator says something offensive, or if somebody sees a symbol they don't like. I'm not saying there a no problems here at all, but compared to other nations, we are VERY hyper-oversensitive to race issues. We go to exquisite extremes to make sure no one even gets offended about race, much less slaughtered by a machete over it.

You think black people are treated bad in the U.S.? Do you know anything about how black people treat other nations of black people in Africa? Think Slavery is dead? Nope. Read about Africa.

Look, I'm guessing you are about 16 and just trying to lash out at anything in your parents world because they grounded you once. Seriously. I know, to you, the U.S is the great satan. In another 20 years or so, when you mature a little, maybe you will have learned how extremely good everyone in the U.S. has it. The U.S., along with Canada and Western Europe are the most racially diverse and least racist nations, by far.
 
2008-07-05 11:10:50 PM
TheJoe03:The European chick is the one who turned this into a pissing contest between Europe and America, which is silly since Europe is much worse than the US in the regard.

Other then you starting the Weenerss? I'm glad to see you're mature enough not to continue the pissin contest.
 
2008-07-05 11:17:04 PM
Fact Man:/or trolling? If so, 8/10 cuz I bit.


Thank you and you're not the only one who did.

People in glass houses, sheesh.
 
2008-07-05 11:47:48 PM
TheJoe03:OZZ:IonBeam2:

Rather be with a darker skinned person than some pale, ugly Norwegian. Honestly, really pale people are just as unattractive as really dark people, so I really don't get what y'all whities are talking about.


You've obviously never been to Norway, there are soo many
hotties up there. Plus you're a retarded racist.
 
2008-07-05 11:51:10 PM
relax?
 
2008-07-06 12:09:07 AM
Mixed people aren't white. Sigh.
 
2008-07-06 12:09:40 AM
seanmur:TheJoe03:OZZ:IonBeam2:

Rather be with a darker skinned person than some pale, ugly Norwegian. Honestly, really pale people are just as unattractive as really dark people, so I really don't get what y'all whities are talking about.

You've obviously never been to Norway, there are soo many
hotties up there. Plus you're a retarded racist.


How am I racist??? I just said neither extreme is all that attractive in my opinion. The Norwegian diss only was used cause OZZ posted from Norway, so I assumed he was Norwegian. The whitie comment was a joke, chill out. When people use whitie,it generally isn't used seriously.
 
2008-07-06 12:27:28 AM
Jamrock:Oh yea, and a few hours ago, I felt more out of place than ever before. I mean serious comments that we should accept the fact that blacks are not attractive?? Then a bunch of nutty comments on both sides of the issue, although most of them racist, then comments that were way out of the ballpark.

But seriously, it started out as a thread full of racist and bigoted comments as is expected here, but it's glad to see that there are some liters that can chime in and make intelligent, decent comments.

It's one thing if YOU prefer a certain race or features, but that doesn't make these things facts. Just because you expect people here to agree with you, realize that greenlighted threads are public and you are basically making a fool of yourself.

/seriously loves women of color :)


As someone who has fapped to many quality women of different colors, I agree. I don't get why gay dudes like dudes or why some guys only like Asian or Irish women, but hey, whatever gets you through the day. However, your likes aren't universal laws.

Personally, I'm not into chicks with curly hair, but I don't think it's that weird if some other guy likes that.
 
2008-07-06 12:32:01 AM
I have to admit to cuffing out a few thinking about Tyra Banks (NSFW) in her younger days.
Don't matter to me what color they are. They are all pink on the inside.
 
2008-07-06 01:09:27 AM
It's all those damned Republicans in the fashion industry! If only the fashion industry could get a large influx of people from some oppressed group that's been victimized and marginalized. They'd know what it's like to be kept on the outside, and they'd never mistreat black people!
 
2008-07-06 01:25:07 AM
img295.imageshack.us

Is getting a kick out of the replies...
 
2008-07-06 01:26:37 AM
thinker5555:Subby, you may have a winner. Something that is actually obscure on Fark? I don't think anyone got the reference.



/hotlinked
//Mugatu made me do it.


I guess you missed the "piano necktie" comment earlier in the thread.
 
2008-07-06 01:45:18 AM
Awww, no love for green eyes.
 
2008-07-06 01:54:04 AM
Lauraness:The main reason why I *could* see why people think white people are more attractive is because YOU GET SO MUCH NATURAL VARIETY with traits. Very light blonde hair to black, from sky blue eyes to deep brown, and even the range of skin tone. How much variety can you get from other ethnic groups. (NOT including mixed-race)

/Still loves Middle Eastern men.


Allow me to introduce myself.
 
2008-07-06 01:55:15 AM
Four Horsemen of the Domestic Dispute:TheJoe03:OZZ:IonBeam2:So now we have to ignore the fact that black people aren't exactly the most beautiful people in the world to not be considered racist?

This makes to much sense.

Rather be with a darker skinned person than some pale, ugly Norwegian. Honestly, really pale people are just as unattractive as really dark people, so I really don't get what y'all whities are talking about.


To be perfectly honest, The dark skinned girls fark the same, feel the same, taste the same. So relax.
It is just the sand-in-a-tube-sock-tits that bother me.

/and the five-o-clock shadow where she shaves it.
//they should use hair bleach I guess.
///tigger, please


What the hell are you talking about? I was with my ex for 5 years and she had smooth skin and rarely even needed to shave her legs. And she's gorgeous. I miss her bewbs.

Majai:I don't know. They all look beautiful to me!

/What's with all the hate?


This is why I buy variety packs of beer.

And just to let you know, I'm a ginger.
 
2008-07-06 02:42:50 AM
farm3.static.flickr.com
 
2008-07-06 02:45:02 AM
Tony Stark:IonBeam2:So now we have to ignore the fact that black people aren't exactly the most beautiful people in the world to not be considered racist?

LMAO...This is so terrible that I can't even get offended by it


It's not so much that they're not attractive. It's just that they all look alike, you know?
 
2008-07-06 02:47:49 AM
Bathia_Mapes:thinker5555:Subby, you may have a winner. Something that is actually obscure on Fark? I don't think anyone got the reference.



/hotlinked
//Mugatu made me do it.

I guess you missed the "piano necktie" comment earlier in the thread.


Obscure? Just watched it today.

www.adiumxtras.com
 
2008-07-06 07:47:02 AM
Rascal King:From what I've seen, Japan still takes the cake as far as casual racism

Signs that say, "Japanese only", are not uncommon on the doors of establishments. Whats worse, some of my peers were telling me half the hookers will not service Americans.
 
2008-07-06 08:58:19 AM
JohDHJ Quote 2008-07-05 06:07:06 PM
40oz_A_Knight:Attraction to a person or a look is not a category of thing that can be classified as "racist". Please return to your postcolonial womyn's homonormative neomarxist post-structuralist biosocialecoanthropology collective undergraduate literature class.

Yeah. I mean, I find blue eyes very attractive, and I probably won't find blue eyes in Asians or Africans. Does that make me racist?


Yes, unless you are an Obama supporter. Then it's okay.
 
2008-07-06 09:55:18 AM
You know who else thinks white women are more attractive than black women?

Black men.
 
2008-07-06 10:57:01 AM
Oh_Enough_Already:You know who else thinks white women are more attractive than black women?

Black men.


It seems that its more socially acceptable for a black man to date a white woman than a white man to date a black woman. Its called marrying up or dating up, men rarely pick someone perceived as being lower status to be their trophy.
 
2008-07-06 11:06:14 AM
thelordofcheese: And just to let you know, I'm a ginger.
i32.photobucket.com
 
2008-07-06 01:31:10 PM
Everybody is racist. Some of us put considerable effort into quashing our irrational baboon hardwiring...some don't.
 
2008-07-06 06:28:44 PM
GreyPiper:

and you dont realize that a group of blue-eyed blond white folks dont all look alike to people of color!!??!
 
2008-07-06 10:48:43 PM
My pet theory goes like this....

The difference between white females and the females of most other races is in the distribution and nature of their hotness. Among white females, there is a fairly linear distribution from fugliness, through averageness....which suddenly peaks exponentially to hotness. Therefore attractiove white women tend to stand out more than attractive women or some other races.

Not sure if that makes sense, but put it this way: a minority of white women are ugly, a large majority are very average Plain Janes, and then a tiny minority are smokin' hot. These smoking hot ones tend to have relatively unique looks, and generally have the body type that's close to universal, evolutionary perceptions of female attractiveness (hourglass body curves, etc).

Among other races, the distribution of looks tends to be more flat. Take Asians for example - on average, Asian girls tend to be cuter than average white Plain Janes, but the look tends to be more standard, and among the smoking hot Asian chicks there is less variety and less uniqueness (eye colours, hair colours, hair type, etc). What this means is that there is less chance that a smoking hot Asian chick will stand out among the other, more average, and yet still cute Asian chicks - while a white stunner surrounded by white Plain Janes is more noticable.

So yeah, basically I think it's to do with the fact that the gap between hot and average is bigger with white females than with others. That, and the fact that variety of features makes for a variety of different looks, where other races tend to have a stock standard for hair colour, eye colour, etc.
 
2008-07-07 01:36:57 AM
Amigajoe:-What's the difference between a model and a SuperModel?

bitten by a radioactive spider...
 
2008-07-07 10:34:42 AM
Sorry but fair skin has always and will always be regarded as the height of beauty. It is related to the way we perceive light and darkness, naturally preferring the radiance and natural beauty of sunlight to darkness.
 
2008-07-08 07:36:48 AM
Danger Avoid Death:I wish she'd serve me up a fish taco, lickety-split.

Go ahead a try it if you must. The overwhelming smell and taste of curry tends to ruin the most beautiful looking fish taco at first taste. Don't ask me how I know this. Please.
 
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