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Originally Posted by Direckshun
What's the difference between disapproving of homosexuality, and disapproving of a racial minority.
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First off, please realize, I offer this to answer the question you posed. Not to start an argument or evangelize. In case I haven't actually stated this 1000 times here already over the years. Judgment of others is a sin that eclipses all other sins we haggle back and forth over. To presume the mind of God is inexcusable hubris.
That said.
There is not a millisecond of a black person's life, absent substantial pancake makeup, that they will not be black. No matter how educated, restrained in behavior, method in acting style, heck they could be sleeping in the Queen of England's bed.
That is an immutable law of physics and it's subset optics. Their skin reflects light at a given frequency, and we have attached baggage to that reflection.
OTOH, no matter how immutable one's desires are, expression of them is an act. And for many, observation of that act triggers a primal reaction, . . . lets be polite and term it 'douche chills.' Your grandma might have hypothesized that a goose walked over your future grave at that moment.
On subsequent reasoned reflection, you might realize that 'oh, that was my lizard brain saying HEY! THEY AREN'T DOING THAT TO FURTHER THE SPECIES!.' You might feel all sorts of appropriate shame for allowing said lizard brain primacy in the moment. But in that moment, that was your mind telling you how evolution wants you to react.
FTR - and I've said before, to the extent I personally have that reaction, it's not all that different from my reaction to seeing Roseanne Barr and a fat mulleted Tom Arnold smooching.