I find myself weighing whether it's better to get the unemotional, unadulterated statement from a President or the focus-grouped, feel-good, superficial statement. I can see why someone would prefer either side, but I find both wanting.
Obama’s Charlottesville Response Most-Liked Tweet Ever
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#12Perhaps it's popular because it's not true. But it should be true, and everyone wishes it was true. The evolutionary basis of xenophobia is well-understood. A quick search turns up, for example: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/... Babies of about the same age as the ones shown in Obama's tweet already display instinctive xenophobia: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/are-babies-b…
Trash analysis from a throwaway account. Independent.co.uk link discusses proposed evolutionary/biological origins of xenophobia, and specifically points at groupthink, not individual bias, as a possible explanation. Smithsonian link describes a study where babies show a preference for non-racialized puppets who displayed similar food preferences. Nothing to do with race or bigotry.
Here's a better link:
https://www.utoronto.ca/news/racial-bias-may-begin-babies-si...
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#13I'll bet that pisses off Trump to no end.
The only way Trump will find this out is if it is reported on Fox news. That seems to be how he gets all his information. I searched the web site and it doesn't appear to be there.
President Trump may also search his own handle on Twitter to find sympathetic messages to retweet.
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#14Perhaps it's popular because it's not true. But it should be true, and everyone wishes it was true. The evolutionary basis of xenophobia is well-understood. A quick search turns up, for example: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/... Babies of about the same age as the ones shown in Obama's tweet already display instinctive xenophobia: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/are-babies-b…
Yeah, I see this sentiment flowing around very often and I agree with you on this.
I prefer to think of it this way: The ability to rise above this type of thing is a part of what makes us human. Learning to not be bigot is something you have to do. You have to work at it always, it's not free.
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#15I'll bet that pisses off Trump to no end.
The only way Trump will find this out is if it is reported on Fox news. That seems to be how he gets all his information. I searched the web site and it doesn't appear to be there.
Well he only follows 45 people on Twitter. Roughly a third are Trump entities, another third work in the white house, and the rest work at Fox News.
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#16Perhaps it's popular because it's not true. But it should be true, and everyone wishes it was true. The evolutionary basis of xenophobia is well-understood. A quick search turns up, for example: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/... Babies of about the same age as the ones shown in Obama's tweet already display instinctive xenophobia: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/are-babies-b…
The first article from 2004 has two anthropologists say they "believe" evolutionary psychology can explain exclusionary behavior, while the second has the line "While extrapolating this to mean that the babies are racist or bigoted is probably a step too far...it does raise interesting questions". I wish that's all I needed to firmly hold something as fact, it must feel nice.
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#17Perhaps it's popular because it's not true. But it should be true, and everyone wishes it was true. The evolutionary basis of xenophobia is well-understood. A quick search turns up, for example: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/... Babies of about the same age as the ones shown in Obama's tweet already display instinctive xenophobia: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/are-babies-b…
Specifically looking at the Smithsonian article, they don't even mention xenophobia until the last sentence.
What they're talking about is instinctive preference for other creatures which the baby identifies with, and in the research the article cites there isn't any direct correlation to race. They talk about food preference — something superficial. There was no research cited to indicate whether the behavior extends to racial distinction, so your using this research to back up your claim that "babies of about the same age as the ones shown in Obama's tweet already display instinctive xenophobia" is intellectually dishonest at best.
And I ignored the Independent article because they're known to be poor at in-depth reporting.
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#18Perhaps it's popular because it's not true. But it should be true, and everyone wishes it was true. The evolutionary basis of xenophobia is well-understood. A quick search turns up, for example: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/... Babies of about the same age as the ones shown in Obama's tweet already display instinctive xenophobia: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/are-babies-b…
Specifically looking at the Smithsonian article, they don't even mention xenophobia until the last sentence. What they're talking about is instinctive preference for other creatures which the baby identifies with, and in the research the article cites there isn't any direct correlation to race. They talk about food preference — something superficial. There was no research cited to indicate whether the behavior extend…
My fault -- you can find much better links if you search for 15 seconds instead of 5:
https://www.utoronto.ca/news/racial-bias-may-begin-babies-si...
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#19Perhaps it's popular because it's not true. But it should be true, and everyone wishes it was true. The evolutionary basis of xenophobia is well-understood. A quick search turns up, for example: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/... Babies of about the same age as the ones shown in Obama's tweet already display instinctive xenophobia: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/are-babies-b…
>Perhaps it's popular because it's not true
Why would something being untrue make it popular?
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#20actually, circa 1949: 'racism is "not born in you! It happens after you’re born..."' [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You%27ve_Got_to_Be_Carefully_T...
> One legislator said that "a song justifying interracial marriage was implicitly a threat to the American way of life."
I wonder if we will look back on the events of this week the same way as we see these from the 1940s.