when I think of the word “fetish” I’m thinking about people who are into feet, bdsm, femdom, cuckolding or MDLB. Not someone who just finds X ethnicity more attractive on average than any other ethnicity. Nobody for example is going to say to a white man that he has a white girl fetish simply because he finds white women more attractive on average than any other ethnicity. Because it’s completely understandable that most people prefer to date with their own ethnicity. But the minute that white man finds a black women more attractive on average suddenly that’s fetishization. It’s completely ridiculous.

  • procrastitron@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    No, that’s not a fetish.

    People only call that a fetish because of ingrained racism.

    They think interracial dating is somehow abnormal or unnatural, which is how they land on the term “fetish”.

    I.E. someone is telling on themselves when they suggest that interracial dating is a fetish.