Racist, Racist Babies
Via Drudge, this just in from the British National Children’s Bureau:
LONDON, July 7 (UPI)—Toddlers who say “yuck” when given flavorful foreign food may be exhibiting racist behavior, a British government-sponsored organization says.
The London-based National Children’s Bureau released a 366-page guide counseling adults on recognizing racist behavior in young children, The Telegraph reported Monday.
The guide, titled Young Children and Racial Justice, warns adults that babies must also be included in the effort to eliminate racism because they have the ability to ‘recognize different people in their lives.’
The bureau says to be aware of children who “react negatively to a culinary tradition other than their own by saying ‘yuck’.”
“Racist incidents among children in early years settings tend to be around name-calling, casual thoughtless comments and peer group relationships,” the guide says.
Staff members are advised not to ignore racist actions and to condemn them when they occur.
My favorite line has to be, “…babies must also be included in the effort to eliminate racism because they have the ability to “recognize different people in their lives.” We seem to have moved from a point at which sociologist we’re screaming, “Intervene before society teaches them to be racist!” to “Intervene before they reach basic cognition!” Any kind of rational differentiation or evaluation is deemed “harmful to society” and the individual must be engineered, psychologically now perhaps biologically later on, in order to prevent this.
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How to test for troubling signs of racism in your baby:
Test 1: Take baby to the nearest local market or restaurant frequented largely by customers from a different race. Place baby on the floor and slowly walk away. Does baby seem content and comfortable in its surroundings, or irritated and concerned by them? In the latter case, begin intensive racism intervention education.
Test 2: Dress baby in the traditional clothing of a different ethnicity, such as a burka, kimono, or sombrero. Does baby feel comfortable in clothes? Or does baby seem embarrassed or overly self-aware? In latter case, begin intensive racism intervention education.
Test 3: Read with baby. Does baby point or make noises more often when shown pictures of white people, animals, trains, clouds, etc? If so immediately cut out all white objects from the book and begin intensive racism intervention education.
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It’s already considered racist among many teens to not date blacks or minorities. The new tolerance litmus test will be aesthetic preferences. Gotta hankering for a white girl and some Bach? Join the Klan, bigot.
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‘Whom the Gods would destroy they first make mad’.
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Further proof that the land of Chaucer and Shakespeare is finished.
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Why not just place a non-removable electric shock device on the babes. One that has speech recognition. Then program it to give a shock whenever some potentially prejudicial remark is made. The shock could even vary according to the term used. If the device is ineffective more direct action is obviously required. It would also create an incentive for the wearer to avoid enviroments where there might be others speaking unapproved speech.
Such a device would also require that the wearer periodically come in for refitting as the subject grows. These periodic checkups would give the opportunity for evaluation. There is also the added benefit that if a subject goes for a long enough period without ‘correction’ the device could be removed. Those who still wear such a device would wear an obvious object of stigma and derision.
But seriously who thinks that a devout Hindu in the UK who refuses to eat beef will be corrected?
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I agree with Ascetic, only I would edit Euripides in this case: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make stupid.
If ever there was an advertisement for the Libertarian cause, this is it. How bad can the nanny state be? Witness ye here… and tremble.
Odd, though, I don’t remember one case in Britain of toddlers bombing churches or dragging minority victims behind trucks. Actually… British adults have never done so. This is more evidence that the real goal of multiculturalism is to designate white people in toto as a social disease requiring harsh cures. Babytalk today, labor camp tomorrow?
And just how much more of this jackass nonsense will be tolerated by the historically sensible British citizenry?
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This is one of the funniest things I’ve heard in some time.....almost as funny as listening to the Cummandur Guy tell us he needs a retro-active FISA Bill passed in order to “protect” us or that our adventure into the Febrile Cre...oh excuse me, I meant Fertile Crescent is to bring Democracy to them whilst fighting the “evildoer” over there instead of here, behind every Middle-Eastern Food Purveyor on Atlantic Avenue.
The only thing we have to fear is unfamiliar food itself. Gefilte Fish scares the hell out of me...what might this mean?
Verily, behold the climax of Intelligent Design.
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I happen to believe this could turn into something good. The more twisted and irrational these people get, the more likely that the comatose population opens its weary eyes and revolts.
Their main problem is that white people aren’t enough racist, so they have to invent racism where it never existed.
Just today I read something about sex education for four year olds. Wasn’t it the leftist crook Daniel Bendit-Cohen who dabbled in quasi-intellectual pedophilia at that kindergarten he run in Frankfurt Germany? The feminist witch Andrea Dworkin thought that house pets and children had a “natural place” in the sex activities of grown ups.
Now it seems that the evil spirits of Bendit-Cohen and Dworkin are finally seeping out in the open.
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“I happen to believe this could turn into something good. The more twisted and irrational these people get, the more likely that the comatose population opens its weary eyes and revolts. “
That has not proven to be the case in many instances of stupidity, Mr. Senna, and it is unlikely to be even as the pace picks up on the insnaity that will lead to the dispossession of the entire European peoples (dare I say “whites”?).
What will wake poeple up from a stupor?
Let’s say the government decides your particular religion is not to their liking and they come in and shoot up your church and your neighborhood. Surely that would be outrageous and people would “wake up” at such a horror, wouldn’t they? Ahem, I don’t see any “officials” in prison nor any monuments being erected in Waco, do I?
The people’s sons engaged in a war to decimate Christians in the Balkans to the benefit of Islamic drug-runners?
The liquidation of hard-working people’s savings through inflationary monetary policy and government mis-spending?
The humiliation of the elderly, very young, and everyone else clearly not posing a terrorist threat at airports on a daily basis?
The usurpation by the government of the Church’s jurisdiction in granting gay “marriages”?
The ever widening scope of sex “education”, availability of pornographic entertainment, and abortion “services”?
Crime in many urban and suburban districts that makes it impossible to live there?
What will it take to unsettle the people? I would not hold my breath for any great awakening.
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This is really about internationalism.
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There is no color, or race, at the atomic level.
All that exists is atoms and empty space, the rest is just opinion. -Democritus of Abdera
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“There is no color, or race, at the atomic level.”
Yes, but there is at the molecular level on up…
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“There is no color, or race, at the atomic level.”
Nothing exists at the atomic level except quarks, leptons, and atoms.
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Jet, there is no up, down, left, right, father, mother, country, brother, sister, morality or anything else at the atomic level. Your mother and brother and father and sister are all made of atoms. Their relationship to you is obscured not illuminated by reducing them to mere matter in motion.
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Jet, there is no up, down, left, right, father, mother, country, brother, sister, morality or anything else at the atomic level. Your mother and brother and father and sister are all made of atoms. Their relationship to you is obscured not illuminated by reducing them to mere matter in motion. -Roach
Why Roach, what is your soul made of? Matter? Have you forgotten the spiritual nature of Christ? The holy ghost?
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Their relationship to you is obscured not illuminated by reducing them to mere matter in motion. -Roach
You speak of this as fact when Its just your opinion. Dont pretend to know what I think. For you would be very wrong in assuming such a precarious position.
Jet, there is no up, down, left, right, father, mother, country, brother, sister, morality or anything else at the atomic level. -Roach
Really? The physicists would have you believe otherwise with their muons, gluons, quarks, spin and half spin.
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Yes, but there is at the molecular level on up…
Posted by nbf on Jul 08, 2008.
Bah, your eyes interpret color from electromagnetic frequencies.
Why then do your dreams have light and color when you sleep in a darkened room?
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Jet, you’ve lost me. What is your point?
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Why just last night in SE, I was accosted, roughed up, and robbed by 3 gluons and two leptons!
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Since Berkleley is my alma mater, I am well acquainted with left-wing looniness, but this is just getting depressing. ALL OF THIS originates from international usurers (bankers and financial bankers) and global green grocers which have such a motley crew of creditors and customers (and employees) that they have this cop out that they are citizens of the world, hate “racism”, and a bunch of other crap. “The Pursuit of Reason” - a hagiography of the Economist magazine, i.e. the mouthpiece of global capitalism, is filled with this sort of rubbish - rubbish which led me to cancel my subscription to the “leading magazine of global affairs”. Bringing up facts that Imperial China forced European merchants into kowtowing to Chinese officials and other humiliations were salient features of their “business culture” and can reappear with Westerners on the receiving end doesn’t register with them. Our business and financial elites are some of the most debased barbarians in human history! The Kingdom of the Anti-Christ is here and the only good news is that Christ will return, but until then it is only going to get worse!
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