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Camillo on April 27, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Korean Beauty Contestants – Face Morphing

The problem is that "they all look the same" is actually a factual observation about how our brains recognize faces. So, if you label it as a "racist trope" you end up implying that racism is part of human nature... which I'm sure is not what you want.

sliverstorm on April 28, 2013 [–]

This wouldn't be the first time "basic human nature" flys at odds with equality movements.

Snoptic on April 28, 2013 | [–]

In this case, it would be an inequality movement

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