Monday, July 7, 2008 |
23:03 - Merrie Younge England
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=upiUPI-20080707-122008-1071&show_article=1
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Via Mark:
LONDON, July 7 (UPI) -- Toddlers who say "yuck" when given flavorful foreign food may be exhibiting racist behavior, a British government-sponsored organization says.
The London-based National Children's Bureau released a 366-page guide counseling adults on recognizing racist behavior in young children, The Telegraph reported Monday.
The guide, titled Young Children and Racial Justice, warns adults that babies must also be included in the effort to eliminate racism because they have the ability to "recognize different people in their lives."
The bureau says to be aware of children who "react negatively to a culinary tradition other than their own by saying 'yuck'."
"Racist incidents among children in early years settings tend to be around name-calling, casual thoughtless comments and peer group relationships," the guide says.
Staff members are advised not to ignore racist actions and to condemn them when they occur.
I'd just like to know something:
At what point did we go from "It would be nice if a given reprehensible behavior could be kept below pandemic levels that inform public policy and general social mores" to "All traces of said behavior, even potential ones, must be stamped out before a person is even old enough to be sentient"?
I mean, what, is racism that much more of a problem nowadays than it was in the 60s—that we have to be this draconian about its "warning signs"?
Geez Louise. Is this the world Martin Luther King dreamed about? A world where children aren't even allowed to turn up their noses at Brussels sprouts lest they be sent to the Center for Extirpation of Anti-Belgian Sentiment?
UPDATE: In other news:
The researchers said there was no reason for long pointed knives to be publicly available at all.
They consulted 10 top chefs from around the UK, and found such knives have little practical value in the kitchen.
None of the chefs felt such knives were essential, since the point of a short blade was just as useful when a sharp end was needed.
The researchers said a short pointed knife may cause a substantial superficial wound if used in an assault - but is unlikely to penetrate to inner organs.
In contrast, a pointed long blade pierces the body like "cutting into a ripe melon".
"No reason for long pointed knives to be publicly available at all"—except if you might, say, want to cut into a ripe melon, which just so happens to be the illustration they found ready to hand, inexplicably.
Better start hoarding away your "unnecessarily" long screwdrivers, law-abiding Britons, because those will be next on the list. Then cars.
Oh, and non-law-abiding Britons? Feel free to disregard these new laws, because you would anyway.
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