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That is in poor taste. Or at least from a point of view that is failing to grasp the concept of racism. It wasn’t Virgos who enslaved Black people / redlined ne
by OpieCunningham 6y ago
That is in poor taste. Or at least from a point of view that is failing to grasp the concept of racism. It wasn’t Virgos who enslaved Black people / redlined neighborhoods / segregated schools.
edited to remove analogy because it distracted from the point
- euroclear 6y agoHaving a mustache isn't an innate trait. A person could shave or (possibly) grow a mustache, but they cannot change their date of birth.
- OpieCunningham 6y agoTrue. I edited to reflect personal preference.
- hyperpape 6y agoSo yeah, bad analogy from the parent poster. But what's the point of quibbling? There are other innate traits that might factor into who we date, something about how they look, perhaps?
- sharkbot 6y agoPeople choose to grow and maintain mustaches, they are choices not an invariant. But point taken.
- gruez 6y ago>A more appropriate analogy would be “I won’t date anyone with a mustache”, You can choose whether to have a mustache or not. A better analogy might be something like eye/hair color.
- __s 6y agoHard to say, eye/hair color have some genetic backing. Astrology at least is pretty good at being randomly distributed Which may be related to why those who have rolled traits which aren't in the existing power structure would be more partial towards this sort of equalizing trait to build first impression biases on Maybe we should have a dating app that matches people based on the last digit of their social security number. The idea here is to artificially reduce supply in order to compel people to interact with someone they wouldn't usually