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awesomark t1_j6oq8vp wrote

Reply to comment by Antic_Opus in How is "You People" not getting backlash for being extremely racist? by kirill_da_thrill

yeah, maybe OP is very young, but support for interracial marriage didn't pass 50% until ~1997 (https://news.gallup.com/poll/354638/approval-interracial-marriage-new-high.aspx)

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kirill_da_thrill OP t1_j6otu75 wrote

also thanks for this, I think some people need to read this article. I personally thought it was lower, it obviously is even higher than 94% in Los Angeles (setting of the movie) yet people call me naive

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maximumhippo t1_j6or71m wrote

.....which is exactly the point. OP is saying that the "issue" of interracial marriage is a solved problem. The commenter you are responding to is calling them naive for thinking that interracial marriage is universally respected and no longer a subject of debate.

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kirill_da_thrill OP t1_j6otl9y wrote

in the setting of the movie (Los Angeles) it is not a subject of social debate. Are there some people there against it? For sure. But it's not a subject of social debate. If you sit at a table with 10 average people from the city, odds are that you won't have much agreement if you tell them you are against your black daughter marrying a white dude.

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Friscogonewild t1_j6ov9e0 wrote

> If you sit at a table with 10 average people from the city, odds are that you won't have much agreement if you tell them you are against your black daughter marrying a white dude.

What people believe and what they are willing to admit--even anonymously--are two very different things.

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kirill_da_thrill OP t1_j6oy1sp wrote

well what peiple believe anonymously is none of our fucking concern is it?

i'm just saying socially speaking (not even legally speaking) interacial marriage is not up for debate in the US, even less in Los Angeles. Are some american, los angeles families strongly against it? sure!

i was just poiting out that reacting to your white best friend DATING a black girl the way Mo did in the movie was fuking nuts

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