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This going to turn out to be either or both of :

1) correlation is NOT causation
2) cherry picking data

The 'meaness' issue needs an interview and a normalization for family history, neighborhood culture, etc. The black kids could have been taken from some rough and tumble ghetto neighborhood with abusive parents and the white kids from something entirely different... this does not tell us.

I smell (another) rat. I can't wait for peer review to shred the methods and thus the data.

"It's horrifying to imagine kids being "proud to be white."

But it's just honky dory for black kids to be "proud to be black, right?"

Or homos and rug-munchers to be "proud to be gay."

Or...

Well, you get the point.

White babies declare Newsweak (my spelling) to be irrelevant. [ sinking... sinking... almost gone... bye bye ]

Damn, well I guess it's time to enrole into the "Karl Marx Treatment Center" to help with my racism issues.

I'm doing it for the children

Need anymore reason to ether boycott or cancil your subcription to newsreek its a left-wing liberal moonbat rag not worth even for a paper recycling drive

Well, I don't think there's much value in being "proud to be [whatever]", when that 'whatever' is something you had no control over or any say in whatsoever.

So instead of letting human beings develop their own insight, they want to smother them with RACE RACE RACE. These people... sigh.

It's funny how I don't even care about race (and we're the "racist conservative honkies") yet, at every single friggin' opportunity, it's the lefty-tards who bring race into the equation... why can't we just be, you know, AMERICANS, and ignore the race thing? It's not an issue unless someone makes it an issue, which the left does day in and day out.

I can guarantee these 'enlightened' folk would agree that there is no such thing as the Christian concept of original sin. But they would heartily agree that the only real original sin is being born white and (relatively) wealthy. Suppose this has anything to do with support the principles of Marxism? Nahhhhh, couldn't be,

I'm just waiting for the day when it's not OK to disagree with a woman, and instantly be labeled sexist. Hell, they'll go a step further and label any disagreement sexist (or racist, ageist, heterophobic, homophobic and whatever else they can) regardless of the merit of the disagreement. Because if you're a man and you disagree with another man, they'll construe that as being sexist (don't worry, it's coming). No longer will we be able to disagree with the ONE agreed-upon thoughts in life that will be dictated by the societal elites.

Remember, liberals always need a label. Labels always need a victim and a perp.

"In 2006 Birgitte Vittrup recruited from the database about a hundred families, all of whom were Caucasian with a child 5 to 7 years old."

And what would the results be from one hundred black families?

There is some validity to the in-group theory, and no where is that more apparent than with the lefties. We've all seen the way they assume that anyone who is not a lefty is inferior intellectually. It's too bad the researchers were too "in-group bound" to see the broader implications of their findings.

More importantly, how many tax dollars were wasted on this tripe?

Ironically, just yesterday I saw a black couple who probably fell in love because they share common interests and are comfortable with each other and it made me wonder how long it will be before white people are labeled racist for marrying other white people?. How do liberals explain the fact that so many white people marry other white people? and so many black people marry other black people? and hispanics and asians the same? Will we need to reject our own race entirely to soothe the radical lefty ego?

^^^^Whoops, that was me talking. ^^^^^

what's next the "racism gene"?

Littlemissperfect,

That's what I was getting at. Nothing will satisfy them, unless it yields more power and another zomg-insert-irrelevant-fact-here-to-use-against-conservatives... hell, even then, they'll want more. It's a never-ending scheme to enable their tyranny.

This is not reasearch, it is propaganda. Defining "whiteness" as a negative quality is a founding tenant of moonbattery. White children allowed to grow up even neutral about race cannot be manipulated by guilt as adults, therefore the overarching importance of race must be taught from the beginning. No one must be permitted to consider their individuality outside of their group identity. Mainstream progressivism has "progressed" in a single generation from preaching equality to preaching race-hate. The ultimate progression of such an ideology would be a society that justified genocide, and poisonous rubbish like this needs to be exposed for what it is.

No one must be permitted to consider their individuality outside of their group identity.

That pretty much sums up the understanding that liberals preach division of people (so much for unity, FOCUS ON RACE!) and collectivism... meanwhile, conservatives preach equality (by way of ignoring race, which theoretically makes sense, "content of their character" ring a bell) and individualism.

Liberals don't want you to EXPERIENCE life, they want to DICTATE it to you. "How we learn is as important as what we learn." Experience is your greatest teacher.

What's the betting that young Vittrup wrote the conclusions of her research before she undertook the field work?

As a real scientist, I was continually surprised by experimental results. Yet "social" (aka "so-called") scientists, in a much flakier endeavor, invariably find that their data support their hypotheses. Either they're a lot smarter than we are, or ...

Littlemissperfect,

Not that long, I think. After all, it was Eric "Nation Of Cowards" Holder who said:

As a nation we have done a pretty good job in melding the races in the workplace. We work with one another, lunch together and, when the event is at the workplace during work hours or shortly thereafter, we socialize with one another fairly well, irrespective of race. And yet even this interaction operates within certain limitations. ... We are then free to retreat to our race protected cocoons where much is comfortable and where progress is not really made.

A black (OK, half-black-half-white for the racial pedants) president and black attorney-general aren't enough. Like their Muslim allies, Marxists are distinguished by making yet another demand after the previous one has been satisfied. And so on ad civilization's-darknightum.

I recall the pond scum at Stormfront were hoping Obama would get elected so race relations would go back to hitting rock bottom. The Marxists sure are doing their darnedest to make that come true. Ta hell in a handbasket, folks, that's where we're going, with the combined efforts of this demonic axis (white supremacists, black supremacists, Communist totalitarians, Islamic imperialists--the whole lot of 'em).

You'll note that the author writes about morals in relation to this. These same people would schreech if anything resembling morality were taught in school sex education classes. But they want to cram their multi-culti morals on us. They continue to prove that leftism is a religion.

What do morals have to do with it anyhow? A race is just an extended family. How is immoral to prefer people with whom you share a lot of common traits? Is it immoral that I prefer my own children to all other children on the planet as well?

That is me above -oops

I eagerly look forward to the day when scurrilous publications like Newsreek, the NY Slimes and the Washington Compost go bankrupt and cease to exist. That day is moving ever closer with every hit piece on Conservatives, every whitewash on behalf of Democraps, every story ignored because it doesn't fit the radical, left wing agenda of the MSM, every perversion that is portrayed as normal and every radical that is portrayed as mainstream. It will be a great day for America when these outdated, dishonest rags become a memory.

NEWSREEK is losing readers too bad newsreek SQUAWK SQUAWK SQUAWK HYUK,HYUK,HYUK,

i think newsweek has the potential to become the new onion(inadvertently of course).

We are then free to retreat to our race protected cocoons where much is comfortable and where progress is not really made.

And why is that, pray tell? Could it be because every comma everyone says is analyzed for real or implied racial bias? Who relaxes when a sanctimonious preacher is over for dinner?

Newsweek? (sniggers) It's the print version of...well...you know....Bwahahaha!

I can't help it. Now I'll be laughing all day.

sniggers

"Sniggers?!" That's sracist!!!!!!!!

/moonbat doing rohrschach test

This just infuriates me. I'm proud to be a white woman and have no problem articulating it.

The left will stop at nothing to demean, diminish and devalue anyone who opposes their socialistic agenga.

I've started using the PC words when I deal with government officials and other administrative hacks and the PC private sector when I call or email them to voice my disapproval. It completely throws them off their guard.

I use the words: racist, mean-spirited, solidarity, oppression, fear-mongering, sexist, united front, all in responses to them when I'm approaching them on various policies that I disagree.

I use these PC phrases when they start spewing their inane bullshit or mumble when I ask them questions.

NEWSWEEK BURN BEFORE READING

>She found that despite parents' progressive intentions and the homogenous political correctness of everything they see on TV...>

One problem could be that these LIBERAL parents taught their children that blacks NEEDED afirmative action in order to keep up with whites, thus infering that the blacks were somehow INFERIOR.

Ya see what you look for?

When we were forced to wear military uniforms on campus somebody got carried away and said that if it was a uniform and we weren't sure of the rank--salute. These guys saluted Christmas trees, mailmen, Nuns, and even an occasional officer. It was kind of funny that the nuns would throw a salute right back. Often the nun's salute was more militarily correct than the idiot's.

hello?
at 5-7 they have already absorbed societal values.
What kind of an idiot thinks that a persons attitudes at 5-7 are an indication of what they were born with?
This is why lay people should not read science, or we need much better science education in schools so that people don't jump to ridiculous conclusions after reading an article that they don't fully grasp.

Wait...were we talking about the magazine Newspeak?

They must have had their heads turned when the little white 5 year old was getting the crap smacked out of him by three 10 year old "African American" youts.

What's that James Brown song?O yeah - "Say It Loud, I'm Black and I'm Proud".

"Say It Meekly,I'm White and I'm Weakly"

check out this article

I love some of these comments above.. Makes me proud to be human. When its clear people can see through your lies, your propoganda and see it for what it is.

Utter fuckin BULLHIT!.

ha ha you commie fuck.. eat shit and die

isn't Newsweek a CIA publication?

WOW!!!!!!!!!..I guess white parents are teaching there children early....

why is it only black people who ever pull out the race card?

Admittedly, people who violently promote PC are quite annoying, but we should all be rather more concerned with those who think PC is bollocks.
They are the kind of people who think its OK to openly make racist remarks and publicly humiliate homosexuals.
The kind of people (well, men really) who would think nothing of groping a woman's arse because "she was dressed provocatively".
People who consider the opinions and rantings of anyone to the left of Bill O'Reilly to be 'communist propaganda bullshit'

These people are stupid wankers who must be ignored, they don't want to make the world a kinder place, they just want an excuse to bitch about things they're not allowed to say or do anymore, because the rest of us have moved out of the fucking dark ages and are trying to live in a friendly society.

All of this, however, needs to be said alongside the fact that this study was carried out with small children, who by their very nature are stupid and lack necessary skills, such as not treating others like shit
And if 'sensible adults' are ready to behave like sensible adults and not 5-year olds, we should all be a little bit PC now and then.

I have been reliably informed by a professor of psychology that academics often reach bullshit conclusions through questionable research methods, or just fabricate entire studies to get their names mentioned in journals and the like or to acquire grant money.

This same professor also said that psychology is essentially answering questions that no-one asked.
Which begs the question, who the fuck decided to try and prove that children are (surprise) stupider than adults?

Just another stupid concept to keep us all divided. Why should we apologise or have pride in something we had no control over?
I believe you either belong to a specific race, black, white, asian or consider yourself part of the human race, but don't waste my time trying to be part of both.

"Just because racism is inborn, as homosexuality has recently become"

You have to struggle with those homosexual thoughts everyday do you?