“Black People Were Just Less Smart Back Then” -Grandma
“Black People Were Just Less Smart Back Then” -Grandma
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17967345
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Because humans only produce like minded offspring, incapable of forming their own thoughts opinions and values. There has never been political tension between generations over schema shifts that also don't happen. E: big heckin /s in case that wasn't obvious
The point is that CRT is important because white people have often been fed a version of reality that has been heavily edited to make racism seem less impactful than it actually was/is at best.
If Grandma is telling you that people of color were lesser human beings back in the day or "uppity" and all that scholastic history teaches is "Racism was a thing, but then MLK and it all got better!" It devalues the entire lesson.
My grandma still jumps to the disgusting "immigrants bring diseases with them!" and then goes "oh my look at the time, I need to catch Mass."
...what the fuck grandma? Jesus means everything and nothing to you?
Hope you call her out on that.
^ A foolish response
I believe it was Albert Einstein who said: "You exist in the context of all in which you live and what came before you."
As opposed to falling down from a coconut tree?
Well, there are only so many places in the world where coconut trees can grow... Although they're increasing.
Racism is highly heritable. This comports to the research, personal observation, and common sense.
The observation that it's not 100% heritable is obtuse. Height is only 60-80% heritable.
Racism is highly heritable
No it's not. It's not passed down in the genes. It's something you're taught. The people who provided someone's genes (parents) may frequently be the ones who teach them as kids. But, for it to be heritable would mean that the child of a KKK member raised by Freedom Riders would end up racist because it was in his genes.
Many of these people are are still alive and voting. No one is saying generational trends can't be broken.
There is also not one single shred of evidence that exists to show that parents teach their beliefs to their children.
Not one piece of evidence.
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It's a little hard to interpret the level of sarcasm in your comment, which is why I think it's caused so much disagreement.