• Skullgrid@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Is it yellow fever if you also have various other variants that attract you to multiple different races?

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        2 days ago

        If I find the race based phenotypes of multiple races very arousing ( ex, Asian women because of their monolids, black women because of their melanin, white women for their paleness and freckles, etc etc) does it still count as yellow fever, because it comes accompanied by other attractions based on race too, instead of only lusting after that one race.

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          Finding a specific aspect of someone’s appearance attractive, and fetishization, are not the same. A normal person could find melanin attractive, and be fine. When they are eschewing any interest in the person other than them having dark skin, you are fetishizing them. The person in this comment is pointing out how this fictional guy only dates asian women, and brings her around to be shown, rather than to enjoy the experience with in a deep way.

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              Correct, it is a pejorative used in two ways, either people racist against asians claiming anyone who isn’t asian dating an asian, has yellow fever, or that person in fetishizing them. Just being attracted to a person is not the same thing.

              this applies to other ethnic groups, hair colors, and many other things.

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      3 days ago

      You can’t not fit in stereotypes, it’s the Law! And if one type doesn’t do it for you, you’re clearly a -phobe or racist. Obviously.

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        you’re clearly a -phobe or racist

        Sure, you want to believe it’s bullshit. But then you get to Stanford and find out “The Bell Curve” is required reading in your social circle.

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          It remains a rigorous and statistically valid study. I wish they’d excluded the race-based portion of the study because it’s so ideologically toxic, but their primary point was that society was becoming increasingly biased in favour of individuals with higher IQ or “G” quotients, and that this should concern us as it could lead to further wealth polarisation along this axis. At no point is the claim made that IQ is a measure of human worth, or a complete accounting of intelligence - just that this measurement seemed to be correlated with better life outcomes. I really wish they’d left the study at non-Hispanic whites because that’s a pretty important observation and something we should consider as a society. E.g. if a perfect “meritocracy” were instantiated in terms of economic rewards, that would be far from ideal if it meant throwing everybody else to the wolves just because they’re less economically productive in that model.

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            The concept of IQ as a crude basic tool for evaluating severe mental injury or illness was perverted into a theory of social hierarchy that is only “proved” in hindsight.

            At no point is the claim made that IQ is a measure of human worth, or a complete accounting of intelligence

            That’s a bald faced lie. Tons of eugenic theory revolves around the alleged primacy of intelligence as measured through IQ. The Mensa Club admits based on IQ. Employers can and do make hiring decisions based on IQ and similar exams. “Bell Curve” is exhaustively referenced as the legitimizing theory for these policies.

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      If you have dated exclusively Asian women, but profess to feel attraction to other races, then it’s de facto yellow fever.