So being exposed to actual people of different races, and being afforded more opportunity to form friendships and relationships with people of different races, actually makes kids less likely to have cross-racial interaction. To know them (members of other races) is to prefer to avoid them, seems to be the motto of children.
Kids are natural segregationists. Jesus commands us to be like children.
By the transitive property, Jesus commands unto us to be segregationists.
Notice that one of us is able to express thoughts clearly and succinctly. The other one is very wordy.
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Wow. Your asshole must be absolutely gaping after pulling something like that out of it.
++"Notice that one of us is able to express thoughts clearly and succinctly. The other one is very wordy.
So basically they used too many long sentences and big words so you merely skimmed their argument.
How about allowing them to be with kids of other races but not telling them about race?
I know someone who is actually doing such, and so far the kid is not a "natural segregationist. And your logic is faulty. Maybe Jesus wants us to copy another aspect of children.
Jesus commands us to be like children, so by this transitive property, you should be shitting your pants.
See, nice and short, you moron.
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Um... how is one of attempts to defend racism wordy? They each have almost the exact same amount of words!
Also, they're trying to defend racism, so they're wrong.
Notice that one of us is able to express thoughts clearly and succinctly. The other one is very wordy.
I'm not exactly surprised that hearing too many words at a time makes a racist's lone brain cell hurt, but it's refreshing to hear one of them admit it.
> So being exposed to actual people of different races, and being afforded more opportunity to form friendships and relationships with people of different races, actually makes kids less likely to have cross-racial interaction.
[citation needed]
Wait, what? I'm not a professional psychologist or anything, but I'm fairly certain it works in the exact opposite way. Associating with different people in one's formative years makes one less likely to form negative stereotypes about them in later years.
100% Pure bullshit I am pretty sure there is nothing else but bullshit.
I know MANY examples why he is wrong, so if exposing people to other races make them avoid them, what the hell do you think is going to happen if you have them never meet them?
Racism dumbass.
The truth is, humans as a whole are natural segregationists to a degree, kids a little less so because they're still learning what their tribe is like especially if they're not told beforehand what to 'expect'. Some more than others who stay strictly with their own kind, some far less who seek companionship among people they don't know, look or act like.
The reason for this is a very old survival instinct where your tribe was safe, other tribes were not necessarily safe. Two strangers meeting on a hunting path have only a few seconds to determine if they are meeting a friend, or a foe. Ethnic identity markers were the easiest way for them to figure that out.
Recent studies have suggested we make these judgement a fraction of a second before we've coalesced them into a thought. It's instinct to make snap judgements.
This does not mean the instinct is still necessary. Human interactions are a lot more complicated than they used to be. People who look the same and act the same can be national enemies because of the border lines we arbitrarily draw on the map.
The idea that ethnic markers are all we need to know what a person is like is no longer the best guess available. We are in a time and place where you have the luxury of a conversation with someone before you make your last judgement.
It takes only a little training to get over the instinct of 'my tribe' - 'not my tribe' and actually get to know each other before making a call about a person. But fear and hatred are all you need to take that instinct to its logical extreme of violence.
Jesus was a fucking cult leader.
Of course he wanted you sheeple (yes, I can use that dumb word in this context; Christ also kept comparing himself to a shepherd and his groupies to sheep) to be like children, because children are impressionable and do whatever their parents tell them to do.
Children have little sense of personal autonomy and are not capable of informed consent, which is why they are easily brainwashed into religion and easily coerced into sucking some pedophile priest's cock.
Religion demands you think like a child.
Reason demands you think like an adult.
"So being exposed to actual people of different races, and being afforded more opportunity to form friendships and relationships with people of different races, actually makes kids less likely to have cross-racial interaction."
Really? Because I grew up in an enormously diverse neighborhood of Chicago and went to school with people of all different backgrounds and skin tones. All it did for me was to give me lots of friends of lots of different ethnic backgrounds and I wouldn't have it any other way.
"Jesus commands us to be like children."
Well, children can be cruel, so it makes sense fundies believe that.
I guess it's Opposite Day again. I was raised in a lily-white community and had very little exposure to people of other races and cultures. When I moved to the city, I had to fight to overcome some prejudices I held due to ignorace. My son, on the other hand, spent his early years in an inner city neighbourhood with friends of many races and backgrounds. He has grown up to be one of the least bigotted people I know.
Confused?
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