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I went to a decently progressive elementary school, and the kids were absolutely racist by second grade. It'd be nice if we could just ignore race, but that's

• forgingahead 5y ago
  Perhaps their racism was a result of "progressive" schools and parents of kids in those schools seeing everything through a lens of race or other identity markers?
  • colinmhayes 5y ago
    I'm pretty sure it was because kids are assholes. And because it's easy to pick on outsiders. The class had 20 white kids and 3 black ones, obviously they're going to be singled out by the 7 year olds. Anyway, this was before progressive meant seeing everything through the lens of race, so it definitely wasn't that.
• rayiner 5y ago
  Second graders aren’t “racist.” They see color differences, just like they can see if kids are short or tall or skinny or whatever. They are either taught or learn by observation to associate color with other things.