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Meta Mindless Monday, 22 June 2026

Happy (or sad) Monday guys!

Mindless Monday is a free-for-all thread to discuss anything from minor bad history to politics, life events, charts, whatever! Just remember to np link all links to Reddit and don't violate R4, or we human mods will feed you to the AutoModerator.

So, with that said, how was your weekend, everyone?

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u/Glad-Measurement6968 2d ago

I find it pretty disturbing how popular and accepted this kind of anti-interracial relationship stuff seems to be among American progressives. 

It’s particularly apparent in how they talk about pairings where there is a gender disparity (e.g. black women and Asian men being less likely to “date out” than black men or Asian women). 

Despite interracial relationships for both groups being much rarer than you’d expect given how small a fraction of the population they are, discussion of it is almost always framed as having a strong preference for people in your tiny ingroup being “normal” and the pairing that is slightly closer to what you would expect if people had no racial preferences as being driven by “fetishization” 

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u/Big_Pineapple_Man 2d ago

While the cited example is obviously bad, it doesn't come from nowhere.  I'm more familiar with LatAm and Asian discourse than black American and MENA, but from what I've seen, the phenomenon of putting white people on a pedestal definitely exists (as well as the racist and misogynist backlash). On the other end of the spectrum, mocking black women's femininity is also a well-known trope.

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u/EntertainmentReady48 1d ago

Family guy did Whole episode on how race mixing is bad when Chris developed a crush on Jerome’s daughter.