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"I prefer men with hair";
"I prefer men who are white";
"I prefer men who are tall";
"I prefer men who are well-endowed";
"I prefer men who are able to spoil me";
"It's just a preference."
A renown phrase, an agonizing phrase, an "innocent" phrase, a phrase some people here know well, all too painfully well. Let us unveil the dissimulation of those who profess their innocence by stating, "it's just a preference" -- to prefer something is, "the fact that you like something or someone more than another thing or person", or "an advantage that is given to a person or a group of people" (https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/preference), and discrimination: "treating a person or particular group of people differently, especially in a worse way from the way in which you treat other people, because of their skin color, sex, sexuality, etc." (https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/discrimination).
Before moving on, let me say that, without a doubt, the extent to which one is discriminated because of a certain feature can vary; a short person may be more discriminated against than a bald person. Likewise, the extent to which one is discriminated because of a combination of features can vary; a bald, short person may be discriminated against more than an average height but not well-endowed Asian. I am sure there is some cultural dependence as well. Hereafter, I focus on racial discrimination, as it is probably the least socially accepted form of discrimination.
When we hear someone say they prefer dating white guys over Asians, for example, their farcical justification to legitimize themselves is, "It is just a preference." What is implicit in this statement is that there is something better about being white: it is preferred. When you prefer something, you bequeath an advantage unto the selected, you discriminate in favor of the selected. This is, you can very well argue, racism. A common retort to this may be, "Well, I have dated an Asian guy before. I just generally prefer white men." To reduce to the absurd: well, Hitler had a Jewish chauffeur named Emil Maurice. Certainly this means Hitler had nothing against Jewish people. In short, there are exceptions -- this does not mean someone is not a racist, etc.
In a different vein, if it is socially acceptable to say, "I prefer dating white guys -- it is just a preference", one should be entitled to say, "I prefer living with white people only". The latter statement would be met with visceral repugnance -- the point, however, still stands: they are both forms of discrimination. For a more similar case: if you own a restaurant, you could argue that you prefer to serve only white people (I do not think the law would like this).
If .me island were created with a maximum capacity of 1500, and we said, "We prefer white people" and this preference is strong, then if there were 5,000 white applicants, 10,000 black applicants, 10,000 Indian applicants, 10,000 Asian applicants, I imagine there would be 1500 white people on .me island. Now, we could quite possibly extrapolate this case to the workplace or dating: if there are more applicants than there are positions and white people are strongly preferred, I wonder what would happen.
The masquerading of discrimination in the ostensibly irreproachable phrase, "It's just a preference" is, in short, absurd.... That these prigs bear the temerity to utter such a phrase so blithely as if it were to exonerate them of their being a discriminator... comical.
"I prefer people who are heterosexual;
"I prefer people without disabilities";
"I prefer people who are men";
"I prefer serving people who are white";
"I prefer people who are religious;
"It's just a preference."
"I prefer men who are white";
"I prefer men who are tall";
"I prefer men who are well-endowed";
"I prefer men who are able to spoil me";
"It's just a preference."
A renown phrase, an agonizing phrase, an "innocent" phrase, a phrase some people here know well, all too painfully well. Let us unveil the dissimulation of those who profess their innocence by stating, "it's just a preference" -- to prefer something is, "the fact that you like something or someone more than another thing or person", or "an advantage that is given to a person or a group of people" (https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/preference), and discrimination: "treating a person or particular group of people differently, especially in a worse way from the way in which you treat other people, because of their skin color, sex, sexuality, etc." (https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/discrimination).
Before moving on, let me say that, without a doubt, the extent to which one is discriminated because of a certain feature can vary; a short person may be more discriminated against than a bald person. Likewise, the extent to which one is discriminated because of a combination of features can vary; a bald, short person may be discriminated against more than an average height but not well-endowed Asian. I am sure there is some cultural dependence as well. Hereafter, I focus on racial discrimination, as it is probably the least socially accepted form of discrimination.
When we hear someone say they prefer dating white guys over Asians, for example, their farcical justification to legitimize themselves is, "It is just a preference." What is implicit in this statement is that there is something better about being white: it is preferred. When you prefer something, you bequeath an advantage unto the selected, you discriminate in favor of the selected. This is, you can very well argue, racism. A common retort to this may be, "Well, I have dated an Asian guy before. I just generally prefer white men." To reduce to the absurd: well, Hitler had a Jewish chauffeur named Emil Maurice. Certainly this means Hitler had nothing against Jewish people. In short, there are exceptions -- this does not mean someone is not a racist, etc.
In a different vein, if it is socially acceptable to say, "I prefer dating white guys -- it is just a preference", one should be entitled to say, "I prefer living with white people only". The latter statement would be met with visceral repugnance -- the point, however, still stands: they are both forms of discrimination. For a more similar case: if you own a restaurant, you could argue that you prefer to serve only white people (I do not think the law would like this).
If .me island were created with a maximum capacity of 1500, and we said, "We prefer white people" and this preference is strong, then if there were 5,000 white applicants, 10,000 black applicants, 10,000 Indian applicants, 10,000 Asian applicants, I imagine there would be 1500 white people on .me island. Now, we could quite possibly extrapolate this case to the workplace or dating: if there are more applicants than there are positions and white people are strongly preferred, I wonder what would happen.
The masquerading of discrimination in the ostensibly irreproachable phrase, "It's just a preference" is, in short, absurd.... That these prigs bear the temerity to utter such a phrase so blithely as if it were to exonerate them of their being a discriminator... comical.
"I prefer people who are heterosexual;
"I prefer people without disabilities";
"I prefer people who are men";
"I prefer serving people who are white";
"I prefer people who are religious;
"It's just a preference."
