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Genetic Disorder Removes Racial Bias and Social Fear
People who suffer from a rare genetic disorder called Williams Syndrome have a complete lack of social fear. They experience no anxiety or concerns about meeting new people or being put into any social situation, and a new study by Andreia Santos suggests that they also don't have any racial bias. From the article: "Typically, children start overtly gravitating towards their own ethnic groups from the tender age of three. Groups of people from all over the globe and all sorts of cultures show these biases. Even autistic children, who can have severe difficulties with social relationships, show signs of racial stereotypes. But Santos says that the Williams syndrome kids are the first group of humans devoid of such racial bias, although, as we’ll see, not everyone agrees."
Maybe you don't understand. Toddlers have racial biases. Even babies just a few months old will prefer to look at a picture of someone with the same skin color as them. It's built into the way our brain works. These kids don't have that at any age. They also don't have the subconscious biases that 99% of people have, even the people that are nice to everyone and would never say, do, or even think a racist thought.
Your claims are assumptions not facts. Not everybody is born with any instinctual connection to race. I never felt any racial bias and honestly never knew what race was until it was explained to me by adults. Even after it was explained to me I never really felt any deep emotional connection to any of the surface races. Race is just another term for physical beauty and it's shallow and pointless to love a "race" just like it's shallow and pointless to love a body type. You might want to have sex with blondes but you don't have to love blondeness and adopt blondeism at an ideology.
How about the bullies and jocks are a race?
Nothing stops a highly intelligent nerd from digging into someones past on a job interview to find out if they were a jock and if they are outed as a jock then they go on the jock list and cannot be hired to do anything but work Walmart, McDonalds and other jobs specifically designed for the jock population.
How about that?
A person who is fatter than me or who has a different body type is very likely not related.
Um, Huh? Because fatness is purely genetic? I know so many families where some are fat and some are skinny.
And I know some families which have a range of skin colors, body types, hair color and eye color. Thanks for taking the bait.
I'm saying relying on race in a medical context is as stupid as just looking at a persons weight or size and determining their health. Yes most of the time an obese individual is unhealthy, but this isn't always the case and we should not diagnose individuals merely by looking at them.
There is no link between physical appearance and race. You can look one race and have the genes of another which means race as a concept is unscientific and bogus. You do have genes but the genes you have aren't going to be known merely by looking at someone.
Sure you can see their race but their race isn't their genes.