I was going to say "lack normal social anxiety? Sign me up to lose that gene!" but then "They will put themselves at great peril to help someone and despite their skills at empathy, are unable to process social danger signals. As a result, they are at increased risk for rape and physical attack."
Also, "Despite their lack of racial bias, children with Williams syndrome hold gender stereotypes just as strongly as normal children, the study found. That is, 99 percent of the 40 children studied pointed to pictures of girls when asked who played with dolls and chose boys when asked, say, who likes toy cars." Is not really gender stereotyping, but just that the kids can do a simplified statistical analysis of how many of their female friends play with dolls ...
"The fact that Williams syndrome kids think of men and women differently, but not blacks and whites, shows that sex stereotypes are not caused by social anxiety" No, it shows that doll-car stereotypes are not caused by social anxiety.
I debated responding via comment or another post. Because I'm feeling lazy right now, I decided just to comment :P
I think the word "interpersonal" needs to be placed in front of the word "racism" in the title. While it's true there's plenty of interpersonal racism out there (and arguably growing) the vast majority of harm done to people of color is due to institutional and structural racism cause by bad policy (public and private).
So while it's possible that some people may not be have racial preferences (a very small number of people also show little to no implicit bias on tests of subconscious racism), it doesn't mean these people won't still live and operate in (and in some cases reinforce) a racially-biased society and economy.
Regarding the fact that these anomalies still show gender bias: to me, this just reinforces the idea that race is just a social concept with no legit biological origin.
Kendall - I'm pretty sure I agree with you re: doll-car stereotypes
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I was going to say "lack normal social anxiety? Sign me up to lose that gene!" but then "They will put themselves at great peril to help someone and despite their skills at empathy, are unable to process social danger signals. As a result, they are at increased risk for rape and physical attack."
Also, "Despite their lack of racial bias, children with Williams syndrome hold gender stereotypes just as strongly as normal children, the study found. That is, 99 percent of the 40 children studied pointed to pictures of girls when asked who played with dolls and chose boys when asked, say, who likes toy cars." Is not really gender stereotyping, but just that the kids can do a simplified statistical analysis of how many of their female friends play with dolls ...
"The fact that Williams syndrome kids think of men and women differently, but not blacks and whites, shows that sex stereotypes are not caused by social anxiety" No, it shows that doll-car stereotypes are not caused by social anxiety.
I debated responding via comment or another post. Because I'm feeling lazy right now, I decided just to comment :P
I think the word "interpersonal" needs to be placed in front of the word "racism" in the title. While it's true there's plenty of interpersonal racism out there (and arguably growing) the vast majority of harm done to people of color is due to institutional and structural racism cause by bad policy (public and private).
So while it's possible that some people may not be have racial preferences (a very small number of people also show little to no implicit bias on tests of subconscious racism), it doesn't mean these people won't still live and operate in (and in some cases reinforce) a racially-biased society and economy.
Regarding the fact that these anomalies still show gender bias: to me, this just reinforces the idea that race is just a social concept with no legit biological origin.
Kendall - I'm pretty sure I agree with you re: doll-car stereotypes
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