
i’m not saying fetishizing doesn’t exist, but it’s definitely not normalized. you go around and talk about your latina fetish or asian fetish and tell me how indifferent people react because it is so “normal” preference is normalized though, you can have preference with no reaction. having a race fetish is still looked at as not normal. but hey maybe in #2 and #3’s circle they see this as normal. but society as a whole has not normalized that
right normalized doesn’t mean everyone agrees. it means you can say it openly without social penalty. people openly state racial preferences all the time and it’s largely accepted. people do not openly state race fetishes without being seen as weird or problematic. that difference is exactly why preference is normalized and fetish is not.