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Originally Posted by preciousjeni
General "we" and general "you." I wasn't talking to you in particular. Buying into racism is far from subscribing to a religion.
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She did not say she was racist. She did say that her relationship with her family is more important to her than who she marries. It is not ok to treat someone differently, either better or worse, for their religion, ethnic group, gender, sex, etc. It is not ok for a family to treat their child's significant other badly because of any of those things. But it is ok to choose your mate based on those things. The person you spend the rest of your life with is obviously someone that is as compatible with you as possible. I've been broken up with before because a boy's family did not want him to marry a white girl, and he decided that his family was more important to him than me. I didn't have a problem with it. Personally I choose to date people of my own religion, because I want my husband to be of the same religion. My family would be very upset otherwise. It is absolutely ok to have an individual take on family relations and to pick someone with similar values/background/belief systems to date/marry.
Do you understand the problem? General "you" and "we" does not change the fact that the statements directly imply that everyone's familial relations should line up to yours. Most especially so in the last comment.
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