{"id":47933,"date":"2022-07-16T01:00:50","date_gmt":"2022-07-16T05:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=47933"},"modified":"2022-07-15T08:39:43","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T12:39:43","slug":"qotd-no-your-baby-isnt-racist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2022\/07\/16\/qotd-no-your-baby-isnt-racist\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: No, your baby isn&#8217;t racist"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; padding: 0px 15px 10px 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>Look, it&#8217;s not even racial, but it <em>is<\/em> tribal. Because human beings are tribal. By evolution and inclination, humans associate most with people they&#8217;re used to, and they feel safe amid a small number of people they know well.<\/p>\n<p>The insanity of all the &#8220;your baby is racist&#8221; studies is thinking that babies prefer people who look like THEM. This is not the case. They prefer people who look like those they identify as parents. Take a Chinese baby, at birth, and have him raised by Maori and they&#8217;ll react badly to people who look Chinese. Think of it in terms of the band of human (or pre-humans.) If a baby found himself amid a group that didn&#8217;t look like its caretakers chances were it was dead and\/or lunch. Sending up a distress signal in the form of wailing is its only hope its caretakers will come and rescue it. (&#8220;It&#8221; because I&#8217;m including pre-humans. This applies \u2014 with bells on \u2014 to baby chimps, btw, who are just human-adjacent.)<\/p>\n<p>Sarah Hoyt, <a href=\"https:\/\/accordingtohoyt.com\/2019\/04\/09\/theyre-out-to-get-you\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;They&#8217;re Out To Get You&#8221;, <em>According to Hoyt<\/em><\/a>, 2019-04-09.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look, it&#8217;s not even racial, but it is tribal. Because human beings are tribal. By evolution and inclination, humans associate most with people they&#8217;re used to, and they feel safe amid a small number of people they know well. The insanity of all the &#8220;your baby is racist&#8221; studies is thinking that babies prefer people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,16],"tags":[374,130,139,99,1444],"class_list":["post-47933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotations","category-science","tag-children","tag-evolution","tag-psychology","tag-racism","tag-sarahhoyt"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-ct7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47933"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75005,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47933\/revisions\/75005"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}