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Iceblade02@lemmy.world 2 months agowhether you’d accept your daughter marrying a ME person
Probably because the knee jerk reaction is that ME person ≈ muslim and even aside from islam, ME cultural values are highly misogynistic and very backwards when it comes to women.
To be fair, I’d probably be similarly concerned if my hypothetical daughter was looking to marry a deeply religious christian or hindu also.
rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Fair, but how do you tell that from racism then?
I mean, one could treat this question as if everything else were fine with that hypothetical person, without adding something we weren’t asking.
Iceblade02@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Honestly, it possibly is a bit racist - making assumptions based on probabilities and stereotypes.
I am and have been friends and coworkers with several people who were from the ME (muslim and not) and they were decent folks. There was one notable exception (ex of one of my friends) who turned out to be a real piece of work. I’d like to think that by being aware of my prejudices, I can disprove them by informing myself about people, and at least not writing them off until I’ve made myself aware of who they really are.
Either way, if I had a daughter, I hope I’d raise her well enough to be able to trust her to judge these sorts of things on her own once she became an adult.
Plastic_Ramses@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Not even “possibly”, like i said earlier, yall cant even hear yourselves.
Iceblade02@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Better to be aware of your own prejudices than pretend they don’t exist. Everyone has them, difference is whether you combat them or not.