• shalafi@lemmy.world
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    19 minutes ago

    She could have said “no darkies, even if you are European”. Then again, French certainly doesn’t count. 🤷🏻

    Nothing wrong with having a skin tone preference, but I think it’s dumb to put it in a dating profile. One, you’ll turn people off thinking you’re a racist even if you’re not. Two, you never know. I’ve always dated super pale girls. Ended up with a dark Filipino. Who knows?

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    10 hours ago

    I’ve seen several dating profiles where they express their racial preferences so not much has changed here.

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      9 hours ago

      No French, Italians, Spaniards or Hebrews need apply.

      It’s jarring not because racism is gone, but because of how blatant it used to be.

      In my opinion, it’s perfectly fine to have a preference for age, weight, height, facial features, personality, income, religion, intelligence, humor, etc. Racism is ignoring all of that and rejecting someone before you know a single thing about them just because of their ethnicity.

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    11 hours ago

    Damn still screwed! Mid sized feet, not a nobleman, and am “Italian” American.

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      9 hours ago

      Likely if you care to search local archives that are probably not online.

      There are plenty of people who did find someone via newspaper ads. Though I don’t think it was ever common.