Debbie Schlussel: Weird Science: Big Brother PC Taste Test for (British) Kiddies
If me no likey da spicy food, then I'm a racist. Yup, welcome to the brave new world of "Flavor Minority Report," where the state--the British State--can tell ahead of time if you'll be a racist.
Apparently, they've spent millions developing a theory that concludes that if toddlers don't like spicy foods, they'll become racists:
Toddlers who turn their noses up at spicy food from overseas could be branded racists by a Government-sponsored agency.The National Children's Bureau, which receives 12 million pounds a year, mainly from Government funded organisations, has issued guidance to play leaders and nursery teachers advising them to be alert for racist incidents among youngsters in their care.
This could include a child of as young as three who says "yuk" in response to being served unfamiliar foreign food.
Definite Budding Racism:
The guidance by the NCB is designed to draw attention to potentially-racist attitudes in youngsters from a young age.It alerts playgroup leaders that even babies can not be ignored in the drive to root out prejudice as they can "recognise different people in their lives".
Absurd. But, I guess since I've liked spicy falafel and Plochman's Kosciusko Spicy Brown Mustard since I was a kid, I'm off the hook. Take that, you liberals who like quinoa and yogurt (neither of which is spicy).
Reader Duane quotes a few guys who knew something about indoctrinating kids and who'd probably love this absurd statist spicy food thesis:
Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.--V. I. Lenin
The education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother's care, shall be in state institutions at state expense.
--Karl Marx
Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.--Josef Stalin
Oops. Don't tell anyone that I also liked cereal with milk. Not spicy, ergo . . . .
Posted by Debbie on July 7, 2008 01:55 PM to Debbie Schlussel