Children’s media use cuddly animals to reinforce racist and socially dominant norms, researcher says

(Canada) National Post ^ | June 13, 2013 | Sarah Boesveld

[Slings and Arrows]

Heyooooooo!

[Peet]

Schools TEACH children racism.

I worked with a guy who’s wife taught in a local grade school and said wife told this story:

The school had one of those useless eaters the lefties call “diversity educators” come in and lecture the 1-6 kids on “diversity.”

In the grade three class:

Useless Eater: Children? Can anyone tell me how I am diffrent from Mrs. Teacher?

OneOfTheChildren: You’re a boy and she’s a girl?

UE: Good. Any more?

OOTC: You are REAL tall, and she’s kind of short?

UE: Good. Any more?

OOTC: Teacher has long hair and yours is real short...

UE: Any more?

Children just sit there.

UE: Well you missed one. I am black and your teacher is white.

*BAM* School just taught the children racism.

Co-worker told us his wife was speechless with shock. I’ll bet the skank pictured above (also a useless eater?) loves that crap...

[Billthedrill]

“Billy the Bee doesn’t necessarily project any kind of cultural bias unless we ignore, for example, that worker ants are mostly females and we call them male because we tend to think of workers as male,” she said.

Don't worry, Ma'am - I can still say that, can't I? - we have that covered. Ms Mosquito and her bloodsucking hordes are all female as well. Sorry for the incipient heteronormativity.

[sergeantdave]

I got five bucks that she hates white people and the skin she was born in. I got another five bucks that doesn’t live in the black ghetto and believes she’s an Indian.

[ZULU]

The author of this piece has a sick, sick mind. And if that is a picture of her, it figures.

[Bigg Red]

Dang! Is that one of the animals that has something to teach us?

[Oztrich Boy]

For example, bees buzzing around a hive or ants in an ant farm can teach the importance of community and teamwork without having to be anthropomorphized, she said

Because a beehive or ant colony is exactly the way they believe human soxiety should be structured.

[Rodamala]

Oh that’s wicked.

[Slings and Arrows]

I should have said Alan Colmes?