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Is your baby racist [Newsweek]
newsweek ^ | 9/14/09 | Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman | NEWSWEEK

Posted on 09/12/2009 7:04:28 PM PDT by mathprof

At the Children's Research Lab at the University of Texas, a database is kept on thousands of families in the Austin area who have volunteered to be available for scholarly research. In 2006 Birgitte Vittrup recruited from the database about a hundred families, all of whom were Caucasian with a child 5 to 7 years old.

The goal of Vittrup's study was to learn if typical children's videos with multicultural storylines have any beneficial effect on children's racial attitudes. Her first step was to give the children a Racial Attitude Measure, which asked such questions as:

How many White people are nice? (Almost all) (A lot) (Some) (Not many) (None)

How many Black people are nice? (Almost all) (A lot) (Some) (Not many) (None)

During the test, the descriptive adjective "nice" was replaced with more than 20 other adjectives, like "dishonest," "pretty," "curious," and "snobby."

(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...


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They changed the title on the online version of the article to: "See Baby Discriminate". Go figure.

I am posting this since I was shocked to see this cover at my grocery store:


1 posted on 09/12/2009 7:04:28 PM PDT by mathprof
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Is Your President Racist?
2 posted on 09/12/2009 7:05:31 PM PDT by library user
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To: library user

His Grandmomma was.


3 posted on 09/12/2009 7:07:55 PM PDT by omega4179 ( -11)
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How stupid can you get? I’m willing to bet that most if not all kids don’t even see color. They just see who they want to play with......


4 posted on 09/12/2009 7:08:18 PM PDT by mockingbyrd (Sarah speaks for me!)
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To: mathprof

Original sin from the left.


5 posted on 09/12/2009 7:08:53 PM PDT by Porterville ( I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass... and I'm all out of bubblegum)
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Only if your baby is born into a family that has ANY contact with ANY Conservative or Republican Family member.


6 posted on 09/12/2009 7:09:06 PM PDT by R0CK3T
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Almost all children are oblivious to skin color.


7 posted on 09/12/2009 7:09:53 PM PDT by Clock King (There's no way to fix D.C.)
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Notice how only the "racism" of white people is discussed. The term "racism" is a Marxist invention. When Whites engage in favoritism toward other Whites (and therefore discrimination against non-whites), it’s called “racism”. When other groups engage in favoritism, it’s called “ethnic solidarity”. When you buy into these word games, it’s called being a useful idiot.
8 posted on 09/12/2009 7:10:15 PM PDT by American Silver Eagle
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Is my baby racist?

Hell no, but the “President” sure is!


9 posted on 09/12/2009 7:10:27 PM PDT by Enchante (Speak Truth to Power: Hey, Obama, YOU LIE!!)
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I saw this headline earlier today at the grocery store and had to look twice to make sure that it wasn’t either a spoof or I was going blind. Apparently being born white automatically makes you a racist. Being born liberal automatically makes you a dumbass.


10 posted on 09/12/2009 7:10:48 PM PDT by festusbanjo (Ted Kennedy is a shovel ready project! Coming soon to Hell, Robert Byrd!)
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Moonbattery: Newsweek Declares White Babies to Be Racist
11 posted on 09/12/2009 7:11:07 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: mathprof

Get those kids in re-education camps pronto!


12 posted on 09/12/2009 7:12:14 PM PDT by eclecticEel (The Most High rules in the kingdom of men ... and sets over it the basest of men.)
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Complete nonsense-—my little boy has friends of all backgrounds-—Indian, black, and Asian.


13 posted on 09/12/2009 7:12:28 PM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin has crossed the Rubicon!)
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“scholarly research”


14 posted on 09/12/2009 7:14:12 PM PDT by ken21 (i am not voting for a rino-progressive.)
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To: mathprof

This is seriously messed up (what is their point? well, I know what their point is and that is what is messed up).


15 posted on 09/12/2009 7:15:57 PM PDT by HollyB
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To: mathprof; All
Is Your Magazine Read?
16 posted on 09/12/2009 7:17:22 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA (If guns cause crime, then all of mine are defective!)
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No doubt a bunch of liberals from Austin who probably wanted their babies to test as racists to show that all unenlightened people are. Sick. But not surprising from that area.


17 posted on 09/12/2009 7:18:06 PM PDT by TruthBeforeAll (Honesty is like a knife... Used without love, it can do a lot of harm.)
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They might have asserted vague principles—like "Everybody's equal" or "God made all of us" or "Under the skin, we're all the same"—but they'd almost never called attention to racial differences.

So now these are just "vague notions" rather than real cultural values?! Damn these people. Damn them. And what racial differences are parents supposed to call attention to? Wouldn't doing so would in and of itself be racist? What ARE racial differences anyway? How do I know upon seeing a Hispanic for the first time that he even speaks Spanish, or is Mormon, or prefers Chinese food to Mexican? Folks, bone up. Stop being afraid and start talking down to those who see race as determinate for life.

18 posted on 09/12/2009 7:18:30 PM PDT by Clock King (There's no way to fix D.C.)
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Hate crime in the womb!


19 posted on 09/12/2009 7:18:45 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (The beginning of the O'Bomb-a administration looks a lot like the end of the Nixon administration)
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I too believe that his is a load of horse....

However, we're talking Austin, the liberal haven of Texas, so this could be true.

20 posted on 09/12/2009 7:19:35 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Americans! "Behaving badly" since April 19, 1775!)
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