How would you quantify such a thing even if you were interested in doing so?
"Do many racists have a MUCH GREATER problem with couples with a black man and a white woman, than with the reverse?"
I personally don't think this is a thing that can be correctly measured. And more importantly, I don't think it's anything that SHOULD be measured.
If someone is a racist which in essence means that they believe in the inherent superiority of one race and the inherent inferiority of others, why would anyone suppose that either of these combinations (bm/ww, bw/wm) would be met positively? It would be much more likely to conclude that racists of all stripes would not look fondly on either one of these combinations. Hence my comment that racists having a problem with bm/ww while beaming happily at bw/ww is utter BS. Yes, black men have been perceived as threats, they are STILL perceived as threats as even the most casual reading of the FBI hate crimes stats and case studies on racial discrepancies in prison sentences still go. But black women have never been embraced by this country either as even the most casual glance at this nation's media will provide, including the absolute and utter dearth of black women portrayed in the media as objects of love and admiration -- a point the OP of that other thread simply refused to acknowledge no matter how many times it was put before him.
But that was not the point of that OP. The OP's point was that somehow it was 'less upsetting' to racists to portray an interracial relationship featuring a black woman/white man because the white man would be perceived as the "conqueror" "penetrating" and "shtupping" the black woman. How is that not offensive? Even removing the OPs tasteless posts within the thread, how is what he's saying not anything more than equating interracial relationships to the simple act of fornication? Sure, initially he made it seem as though he was simply "relaying" what racists out there in the Great Beyond think about these types of relationships but it became fairly obviously rather quickly that he had his own issues with interracial relationships himself.
And no, I'm not really trying to convince you of anything so I'm glad that you took that point. All I can do as a black woman in an interracial marriage is explain why that OP and that entire line of thinking is offensive. You do with that what you will.
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