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Input: tldr I only want to date people of a certain race, and people are calling me a racist asshole. Am I?

I won't reveal my race or the race of people I want to date because I feel it is irrelevant and will only bias people, but if anyone asks or if it turns out that information is necessary, I will provide it.

I recently revealed to one of my friend groups that I only want to date people of a certain race, and it has become a shitbag. A girl, let's call her Steph, jokingly pointed out that I only seem to date people of this race in our group chat the other day. I agreed and said that I only ever find those people attractive, and immediately all hell broke loose. It was like I told some of these girls choked their dog or something ffs. Some of them started hurling abuse immediately. The most vocal people said I should find people of all races equally beautiful, and if I don't, I am basically saying that some races are lesser than others, making me a racist, a bigot, and a raging asshole (their words).

I disagree. I just don't find people of other races, *even my own,* sexually attractive. I respect people of all races as people, I am friends with them, I do not think lesser of them at all. But I just don't want to date anyone besides the race I am attracted to. I even brought up the fact that I don't find my own race attractive, but all I got in response was that what I think of my own race doesn't matter, the problem is what I think of other races. I even brought up that people who only want to date within their race are therefore racist in their definition of racism, but they shot it down with the same argument they used for my other point.

I've probably burned all bridges with a chunk of this friend group, but I don't care. I think they got angry for no reason, and not everyone in the group chat had a problem with it. A few friends even defended me, saying I had the right to date who I wanted. The rest didn't care and didn't get involved.

However, since it actually caused such a huge shitshow, I'm starting to doubt myself a little. If it wasn't a problem, I don't think that many people would have gotten offended. I wanted to know Reddit's opinion. AITA for feeling this way?

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only wanting to date people of a certain race