- Raphael Alexander: Imposing racial obsessions on infants
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Newsweek has a shocking six-page report on children and their perceptions about skin colour, but what’s shocking isn’t the conclusions that the study came to, but that children were subjected to such nonsense in the first place. Perhaps the highlight of audacity in the study, that infants as young as six months old were shown pictures of faces, makes it nauseatingly difficult to finish reading the whole thing.
The Children’s Research Lab at the University of Texas keeps a database on thousands of families in the Austin area who volunteered to be available for the study. The study was comprised of entirely one subject group: Caucasian families. Then the children were posed a series of racially-loaded questions about whether white people or black people are nice or not, and whether white people or black people are “dishonest”, “pretty,” “curious,” and “snobby.”
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