Comments by "Christian Baune" (@programaths) on "'Do You Agree... That Babies Are Racist?': Ted Cruz Questions Jackson About 'Antiracist Baby' Book" video.

  1. Children are not racists, they are tribal. It's an essential component of our species survival. So, if a kid never saw someone with different features, he will be very cautious. Kids raised in a multicultural develop a bigger tribe. That confusion between racism and tribalism can only be on purpose. That's so easy to understand! Tribes are totally normal. That people prefer to be with alike people is totally normal. etc. What is abnormal, is to have grown up showing racism behaviors. That is, acting like someone who believes that one race (now, to be replaced by ethnicity or skin color) is superior. Tribes also play a role in modern society, it actually permits communities to develops (community = tribe), by having an internal organisation. As an example, we have a African neighborhood were there are shops that are rare in white and Asian neighborhood where we also find things that are not even available in other parts of the country! In those area, you've supermarkets that do not feel like your typical supermarket. And the prices for some esoteric goods is way down. Why ? Because those supermarket are fulfilling a big local demand. That they regroup could be labelled as racist by idiots, but it's tribalism. They regroup because they are alike. And of course, when you get in those shops, it's a cultural shock the first time. You see things you never saw and you smell new odors and also, people speak some native languages you rarely ear. (On the Asian market, they aren't even fluent in French and I already had a friend telling me they were rude because he didn't understood that the cashier couldn't do better -- so, no friendly small talk as we are used!) I am also part of a tribe who like to discuss serious subject. I brought a friend in and he said they were pretentious. Also missing the point ^^ So, we should really stop throwing racism left and right and explain the pro and cons of tribalism. Then we can treat people showing a racist attitude properly!
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  2.  @ezzypumpdiddle8173  The wrongdoing is purposely conflating tribalism with racism to play the victim card. Tribalism is easily overcome by making the tribe bigger. That is done by exposing kids to people with different features early on. Especially before 4. There are zero "racist" grown up who tell you they grew around diversity. There is a reason for that. There is also a reason why people outside metropolitan area tend to be more "racist". It's one of the easiest thing you learn in child development curriculum and it's amazing how PHD can get it so wrong! And if they were right, the curriculum would be amended and "tribalism" replaced with "racism". But it happens that tribalism is the real thing. And the longer you are within your tribe, the harder it is to extend it too. A tribe is a population sharing the same features. One individual can be in different tribes at the same time too. It's also called a Cohort in statistics, though cohort does not have that notion of belonging. (individual within a cohort are not aware of it)
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