I found this article interesting, especially the comments. As someone guilty of saying/thinking that mixed kids are (often) attractive, I now know to be more sensitive about the issue.
On some level, though, I do wonder if the author is over-reading into people's comments.
I read that too, but not the comments. I also think that multiracial people are often more attractive -- my own kids included, of course! I think it's less an issue of thinking that and more an issue of saying it, which makes people feel exoticized. I didn't read the comments because I imagine a lot of them would be people saying, "Don't be so sensitive, I can say what I want to say," just like with the questions about racial background that are mixed in with the issues about multiracial kids in this article. If you haven't experienced some variety of differentness that causes people to constantly question you, I think it can be hard to understand the cumulative effect of that. Same way that a lot of people say that they're not racist and everyone they know is a good person and we have a black president, so there's no more racism.
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