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Toddlers who dislike spicy food 'racist'

O.o Wow, I get to actually c/p from another forum I posted in, as they had a thread on the same things:

Myself on CAD Forums said:
Blackie - They are little kids. It is understandable. Just teach them that it is bad
Pakis - Blame the news and parents
Those People - Um, I even say that when referring to a nearby group of people (mind you, I am not very people minded. But hey, I can pin it on my aspergers! )
They Smell - What if they literally smell, though?
Not liking foreign food - They're Toddlers for crying out loud! They tend to either be picky or not picky
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Next quote has extra comments that weren't in the original post but added for here bolded :D

Myself on CAD Forums said:
Anyways, I heard from a Britain that apparently, in some areas, Baa Baa Black Sheep was changed to Baa Baa Rainbow Sheep due to the song otherwise being racist >.>

I think somebody here actually said it (before the forum crash, anyways). Possibly Dannichu. I am not 100% certain, though

I tell you, soon looking at someone will be racist, as will not looking at them. We will soon be considered racist just by being born!

"Oh, the birth was successful. Now he needs to be put in prison for hate crimes"
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Altmer said:
you guys should all get a shit radar or something lol to filter out unnecessary shit from your life
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...frankly I find it difficult to imagine that The Telegraph would make up crap to put on their website and potentially lose the trust of thousands of readers.
 
Mike the Foxhog said:
...frankly I find it difficult to imagine that The Telegraph would make up crap to put on their website and potentially lose the trust of thousands of readers.
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They're not making things up but they're blowing it out of proportion to make it interesting for the public because that's what the media does
 
Any newspaper once owned by Conrad Black is trustworthy.
 
Ruby said:
Any newspaper once owned by Conrad Black is trustworthy.
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err it might be right but the media is still sensationalist and biased, that doesn't make a difference. i read my newspaper too and it's generally correct but that doesn't mean you shouldn't always have your crap detector on and look at things critically before you assume it as fact.
 
Altmer said:
err it might be right but the media is still sensationalist and biased, that doesn't make a difference. i read my newspaper too and it's generally correct but that doesn't mean you shouldn't always have your crap detector on and look at things critically before you assume it as fact.
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Though one does assume there is a grain of truth therein.
 
Mike the Foxhog said:
Though one does assume there is a grain of truth therein.
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Dude there's a grain of truth in pretty much everything unless the person posting has an IQ of what, 50?

It's your job as reader to analyse and look at what is written carefully and critically and look at different sides to evaluate what is going on. This is and will always be important when dealing with any sort of medium, whether it's owned by Conrad Black or not. Humans are prone to making mistakes, whether these are generalisations, wrong interpretations of facts, or other errors; you always need to look twice at something before you assume it as fact.

Of course if it's good, hold on to it. That's fair. But don't just take everything as fact because Person X is trustworthy and said so. That is a grave, grave error.
 
I was being silly, Altmer. Conrad Black was imprisoned for fraud.
 
How many people here have read something other than the original post?

It was a headline made to grab attention. "Government Agency wants to stop racism from developing in kids" is nowhere near as attractive as "Toddlers who dislike spicy food are racist". Take a look at this topic. What's the only thing people have commented on? :/

The toddler food thing was stupid, but there was a point in the rest of the article. Children ought to be discouraged from using racist words and making sweeping generalizations, particularly harmful ones (it's not like positive generalizations are that great either, but you can't teach that to a kid, can you?). 'They smell' does sound stupid... but I think they meant to say '[insert ethnic group here] smells', only children don't say that. They say 'they smell', just like I said 'they say'.
 
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'They smell' does sound stupid... but I think they meant to say '[insert ethnic group here] smells', only children don't say that. They say 'they smell', just like I said 'they say'.
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...Or they don't know the kid's name, and the kid they are talking about hasn't bathed in a while, and as such, literally smells...
 
@Icalasari: Except that apparently, it's not uncommon for kids to refer to vario ethnic groups as 'they' and generalize about them. Besides, if it was one kid, they'd have said "he/she smells".
 
That article makes me want to punch someone in the face.

Anywho, on kids. Toddlers make generalizations all the time; they're toddlers. They can. They're not being racist, it's their simple minds making simple sentences.

Now, if a ten-year-old pointed to a group of Mexicans and said "Those people..." then you might want be cautious. But even ten-year-olds make generalizations like that. Really. They're kids.
 
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