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Grendel  ·  3448 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Who Will Pay the Political Price for Affordable Housing?

So you're suggesting that 1-year-old babies have already internalised adult notions of racism (that they couldn't have learnt from their parents unless they were openly racist) ... riiight. Come on, don't you realise how silly that sounds?

    Would it make any amount of sense to say that babies are born already knowing their native language?

No, because their native language has been invented by other humans in historical times. It would be like expecting a baby to be born knowing a programming language.

Racism on the other hand is a basic instinct that dates back to hundreds of thousands of years ago at the very least and probably conferred our ancestors some kind of evolutionary advantage, so it's in our DNA.