I (white) have cosmetic preferences which happen to select (weakly) against white people and in favor of everyone else, so I can relatively safely talk about it. (I love brown eyes and dislike blond hair.)
I don’t know where my cosmetic preferences came from, but it seems likely that some people have less speakable ones from that same source, and mistake it or have it mistaken for something about race-per-se. I don’t think this can explain the magnitude of the effect, but I feel like it’s missing as a hypothesis whenever people manage to talk about racial disparity in dating at all.
I (white) have cosmetic preferences which happen to select (weakly) against white people and in favor of everyone else, so I can relatively safely talk about it. (I love brown eyes and dislike blond hair.)
I don’t know where my cosmetic preferences came from, but it seems likely that some people have less speakable ones from that same source, and mistake it or have it mistaken for something about race-per-se. I don’t think this can explain the magnitude of the effect, but I feel like it’s missing as a hypothesis whenever people manage to talk about racial disparity in dating at all.