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A white person saying they need less white people in their life is odd.

My friend group is approximately 50/50 white non white. I didn't do that on purpose. I fell in love with an Asian woman and married her. The friends I picked up just happened to be a spread of ethnicities.

One thing that I've learned is that it's much easier to get along with people from different cultures when you treat them as an individual and their ethnicity as just one of the parts that make them who they are. It's silly to treat that as the defining feature of a person.

I think people conflate things worth observing and fixing at the population level and things the shape your interpersonal interactions. Yes it's good to work on equal outcomes for people of all races but of that becomes a dominant driver in behavior things get weird.

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This is probably going to open a can of worms I don't really care to deal with, but to be fair Friedl is an obviously Jewish name.

Jewish people very often do not consider themselves White -- so from her perspective, she is almost certainly not included in the 'less White people' statement.

I've found people like this tend to think of others as Pokemon to collect and not to have real relationships with.

They're desperate to brag to their friends about the rare ethnicities on their friends list

Exactly. What actually makes it more difficult for "BIPOC" and other acronym people is the trivialization they get subjected to by acronymizing their identity and grouping it in a "catchy" word by mainly white people who want to grab the lowest hanging fruit to make sure everyone knows that they're "not those other bad white people".

What if you're not wanting less white people in your life because they are white, but because white people in general are more likely to be Republicans?

Race is a protected class but currently it's not illegal to discriminate against political opinions and 'race' is a proxy for those.

> DOJ’s accusations of racial discrimination are baseless. In 2011, both houses of the Texas Legislature were controlled by large Republican majorities, and their redistricting decisions were designed to increase the Republican Party’s electoral prospects at the expense of the Democrats. It is perfectly constitutional for a Republican-controlled legislature to make partisan districting decisions, even if there are incidental effects on minority voters who support Democratic candidates.

If it's a good enough excuse for Texas republicans to prevent minorities voting, then surely it's a good enough excuse to want to exclude white people from your life?

https://harvardlawreview.org/2014/01/race-or-party-how-court...

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Using race as a proxy to avoid those with political perspectives one disagrees with is even more asinine and asocial than simple racism, in my opinion.

It’s an ultimate version of make-assumptions-about-individuals-based-on-external-signals.

What if you're not wanting less black people in your life because they are black, but because black people in general are more likely to be Democrats?

Saying you don't want white people because they are most likely Republicans is like saying you don't want black people because they will steal.

It's a racist stereotype that has no place in this world.

The truth is the majority of Trump supporters are not white men.

> 'race' is a proxy for those "political thoughts"

That's such a weird thing to say or think. Makes me cringe.

Note that in California, political affiliation is a protected class.

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