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Also, Do non-ethnic minority people ever think about this stuff when it comes to dating? I think if I weren't a minority I probably wouldn't even consider this, maybe that's why white people are more likely to date outside their race. It seems like the dominant cultural group would be the least likely to care, but it's also possible that dating interracially carries a stigma in a person's social group. Part of me doesn't want to let go of my attractive preference. I remember thinking wouldn't it be great if I found ugly woman incredibly attractive too, but I had some resistance to the idea. I do think it's possible to just view everything as amazing and beautiful though. I think about tv shows/animes where the artists can make everyone good looking. Humans are the same, we just have a bunch of beliefs and conditions around beauty.

@karkaore Very cool. One of my friends told me a story about how he woke just radiating love and when he went to work he felt like kissing everyone haha, but he knew he had to check himself, he was also into consciousness work.

@Michael569 What do you think caused it to slow down? Also why do you think it's not possible to reverse it?

@freejoy I've looked into that stuff in the past it's mildly affective at best. I'm curious if living a pure and healthy lifestyle could prevent it, but if not i'd rather let it go.

@soos_mite_ah On the forum people are protected by anonymity so they are free to be more true to their actual feelings and thoughts. When you meet someone in person, i'd say the vast majority of the time you're dealing with someone who has their guard up and is very sensitive to how they are coming across. Also what kind of men are you interacting with in person? Students, professionals, etc? @Emerald @soos_mite_ah What percentage of men do you consider high status/worthy of relationship? Yeah, especially if said woman wants to date a high value man. Everyone has different definitions of high status, but the people I know in my life with money/looks as men are almost all interested in some degree to looks. I'd be shocked to meet a guy I respected highly who said they would be fully content with a conventionally unattractive girl. I know I have a lot of immaturity issues so things could change, but unless I feel a strong pull towards a woman from their looks/vibe I wouldn't even look twice. I feel like i'm pretty typical for most young men, but if everyone had my attraction preference no one would be in relationships. Maybe that's why so few young people are in relationships haha

@Forestluv Yeah i get that feeling too. I've had a few experiences on lsd where I felt like a psychiatric patient in a hospital haha. On the otherside of the nausea/sickness etc is bliss and a total change in identity though which is awesome, i don't think I would have known about this if not for psychedelic's

@trenton If you are aware then you can awaken. Everyone who is a someone can find happiness through spiritual practice

@Forestluv @trenton Of the past like 10 LSD trips i've gotten seriously nauseous and vomitted. I think medically it would be considered psychedelic resistant but I recognize the nausea as a sort of psychological block. I think it's fair to say that when a person is fully awake/healed etc they would have no problem with psychs

I think we over emphasize the power of psychs on this forum and underemphasize the power of self inquiry/meditation.

@Leo GuraSo awakening is only for the lucky few who are genetically gifted?

I know that I have a lot of racial bias and racist beliefs/ideas and it seems like most, if not all, people have some racial bias. For me it's clear with woman, there are some ethnic groups I find clearly more than others. There are a few more examples, but the type of racism isn't really the point here. Can anyone here honestly say they have no racial bias in any circumstance. I consider racial bias in dating preference to be a form of racism but I guess there could be some cases where a person has a bias that isn't racist. I've seen some people here claim that ethnic preference isn't racist, but if you have an ethnic group and the vast majority find their ethnicity undesirable I think that should be analyzed as a racial issue, but feel free to disagree. I'm assuming that my racist tendencies will lessen the more I grow but I wonder if all of it will be wiped away. Has anyone hadtheir racial paradigm shattered in a major way? Maybe you thought x group was bad in some way but now have turned completely and now said group is considered great or something. Sorry(but not really) for clickbait title haha

@mandyjw @fish Make sure you find your heart first

The System of spiritual seekers

@Rilles There are an infinite amount of systems

@hyruga I'm pretty confident that Georgetown does blind grading for law school. But i guess people are worried about how her racist tendencies influence how she teaches students of color

This is what i'm responding to

@Forestluv @Derek White What do you think will happen to the professor she was talking to? At the end of the clip you see him nodding his head in agreement. I bet many students will think he's complicit in this situation due to his silence. It may create an atmosphere where you have to check every potentially racist statement or at least show some opposition or hesitation.

@Peter Miklis

@Max_V I disagree here. I have some autistic tendencies as well, clumsy/anti-social etc, and I don't think the move is to just accept them and move on. @Max_V I realized during a few psychidelic trips that you can dramatically change your personality/perceptions/coordination etc with spiritual practice. I've had trips where once I felt into certain tension points in my being it felt like I aged 100000 years in terms of maturity/coordination and a number of other aspects of myself that I thought i was stuck with. I think looking into chakra imbalances and how they related to issues you're struggling with can help you. There's a direct link between the energy centres/chakras and our personality/how we operate in the world

@Forestluv Agreed, what you're pointing is the problem imo. I'm aware of my own bias and prejudices and there are certain ethnic features I clearly prefer. It seems harmless until you consider how that affects your social status, jobs, networking etc. If there's a beautiful girl with a classic desirable western appearance vs the opposite the way i interact with both people are going to be very different, and that difference becomes significant when you extrapolate to the entire population. Do you think preference for features in dating is dramatically different for preferences in friends/relationships? It seems like one is acceptable and one is not but when you drill down I think any preference with respect to ethnic features/culture is going to create problems. Once people start verbalizing and understanding their preference things start to get ugly lol. But if you don't question it and just go off instinct you can completely miss this.

@wwhy I think the school fired her right away, but she claimed she was intending to resign. She would be disgraced if she returned anyway. She's a racist in the eyes of most of the faculty and students I can't imagine her quality of life as a professor after that.

@Tetcher I think for most people having a positive view on something carries some implicit inherent negativity towards its opposite. Take dating preferences. I like woman with straight hair and fair skin, and the preference seems harmless enough when you consider there are significant portions of the population that desire these traits, theres going to be a negative effect on this groups lacking these characters. If you have 10% of a pop with curly hair and darkskin but 95% of the pop prefers the opposite features that disparity is going to have real effects and in the modern climate this is a racist issue.

@Forestluv Do you or your colleagues ever fear you will be In the place of this disgraced professor? The bar for what's acceptable I'd constantly changing, and I'm assuming theres a growing witch hunt vibe where some people are eager to attack their peers so they look more innocent. Do you feel there are things you believe to be true but are unable to Express due to fear of being ostracised?

@Derek White I think the main driver for the difference in performance is due to affirmative action in admissions. If you have URM status in the USA you can get into schools way above your left and Gpa. Law school grading is blind and on a curve so when you have a group of students not as academic and qualified as the their peers you get disparate outcomes. Imagine if the NBA had affirmative action for short players below 5ft8, it wouldn't be a shock if all else being equal these players performed. I'm not saying there aren't underlying racist causes for why black students are underperforming big picture. But I strongly disagree with the idea that these disparate outcomes are due to professors being racist and if only the curriculum was less racist there would be better outcomes.

@Leo Gura Yeah I agree, there's an element of devils advocate in my post. I didn't sense any hatred or anything in her tone, I'm just saying given the optics shes gonna get hit hard. I think the bar for being a racist to be vilified is being set too low by lefties, her comments were mild and based on a very real phenomenon in law schools.