Is it racist to prefer dating a specific race of people over others?

It would be racist to not date someone because of there race, you just prefer a specific type.

Your attracted to what you are attracted to! end of race batting discussion!

Though notions of racial supremacy are always racially prejudiced, the other way around isn't necessarily true. Racial prejudice isn't exclusively based in supremacy vs. inferiority. Example: "All asians enjoy rice." This is an actual racial prejudice even though it represents no concept of Asians being better or worse as people than anyone else.

What many don't seem to quite grasp is that the meaning of the phrase "racial prejudice" is, literally, a pre-judgement of others predicated on race. It’s not limited to only certain "areas" of racial "pre-judgement," or prejudice. Racial pre-judgement can inform our sensibility toward unknown/unseen individuals (in other words, absent true personal experience of said individual) in the presumptive assessment of an individual's potential for "areas" including, but not limited to inferiority, superiority, culture, personality, level of attractiveness, dietary preferences, intelligence, morality, sense of humor, political beliefs, extra-curricular activities, sexual preferences, relatability, height, etc., etc..

Thus, when one has a pre-judged belief *predicated on race* about how an individual *not yet presented* would *presumptively* be assessed in "x" types of ways... merely substituting this presumed "x" with "level of potential attractiveness or appeal" does not change the fact that it's still a presumption, a pre-judged notion, which is undeniably based... on race... as this racial pre-assessment/judgement is, indeed, the very factor informing and maintaining one's pre-held notion of their "personal preference."

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Question: "How do you know 'so-and-so' won't be attractive to you if you've yet to even meet or see 'so-and-so?'"
Answer: "Because I found out what 'so-and-so's' race is. And since I wasn't attracted to the other people I've seen or met so far who were of this race, I know without seeing or meeting, how attractive so-and-so will prove be, too."
Follow-up: "But since you've never seen nor met 'so-and-so', how do you know this particular person won't end up looking/seeming attractive once you have?"
Close: "Because there's one situation in which I don't need to actually see what one specifically looks like or seems like, to know before-the-fact, how attractive they could feasibly end up being regardless the degree to which their unique feature make-up would or wouldn't influence their appearance. You see, I'm able to simply pre-judge this if I hear ahead of time that they are of a certain race... because that, right there is, already, all that I need to know."

So, yes, it truly, truly is "personal preference" which, yes, truly can be influenced by many factors. The above merely demonstrates the specific kind of personal preference that happens to truly be influenced by instincts, emotions, perceptions, and presumptions that are admittedly and by definition, **somewhat prejudiced by race.

Is it so different than only dating blondes? Some people have specific preferences, that's all.

Like Jerry said to George in a "Seinfeld " episode when he was getting ready to go on a date with a Chinese women , "It's not racist if you like them."

In my opinion, only if the said race is different from your own. Like white guys preferring Asian women, or black guys preferring white women.

not at all.