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"as soon as the teacher started talking about the socioeconomic-status associated with eye color, students immediately divided themselves and started fighting o

"as soon as the teacher started talking about the socioeconomic-status associated with eye color, students immediately divided themselves and started fighting over eye color" It wasn't the teacher talking about socioeconomic-status associated with eye color, but explicitly telling the children that blue-eyed kids were better than brown-eyed kids. So it wasn't just consciousness of differences, but explicitly telling some of the children they were better than others. All that proves is that you can teach hatred. But you can also teach peaceful coexistence, where people are aware of ethnic/cultural/biological differences without looking down on those who differ from you. You can be taught to value and celebrate your differences. Same with people from other castes. There's no reason why one has to be looked at as inferior and the other as superior. It really reminds me of a Star Trek episode where there's a war between two alien species which are identical except that one is black on the left side of their body and white on the right side of their body, and their enemy is white on the left side of their body and black on the right side of their body: [1] A ridiculous and meaningless distinction, and yet they kill each other over it. It also reminds me of the religious wars among Christians over minutia like whether one should cross oneself from left to right or right to left. Sheer insanity. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vi7QQ5pO7_A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vi7QQ5pO7_A

noduerme 4y ago
>> Same with people from other castes This is not true, because caste is an (evil) artificial construct which only has ever had one purpose to begin with: To discriminate against people of a lower caste. Caste is not an ethnic/cultural/biological difference, and it explicitly is about saying some people are better than others. You can't celebrate the differences between castes any more than you can between jailers and prisoners, or masters and slaves. Caste is codified generational inequality.
jfrbfbreudh 4y ago
> It wasn't the teacher talking about socioeconomic-status associated with eye color, but explicitly telling the children that blue-eyed kids were better than brown-eyed kids. Amazingly, the teacher had done the exact opposite and told the brown-eyed students that they were the smarter group. Now, is that your bias showing?
- JadeNB 4y ago
  > Amazingly, the teacher had done the exact opposite and told the brown-eyed students that they were the smarter group. Now, is that your bias showing? Rather famously, the point is that the teacher did both.
  - jfrbfbreudh 4y ago
    Except the blue-eyed children went second and > But this time, something was different. Elliott noticed that the blue-eyed kids were not as condescending, not as mean, as the brown-eyed kids had been. She asked why.
bobthechef 4y ago
hypertele-Xii 4y ago
> A ridiculous and meaningless distinction Computer simulations have proven that completely arbitrary distinctions are still useful genetic indicators of fitness in evolution.

noduerme 4y ago

>> Same with people from other castes This is not true, because caste is an (evil) artificial construct which only has ever had one purpose to begin with: To discriminate against people of a lower caste. Caste is not an ethnic/cultural/biological difference, and it explicitly is about saying some people are better than others. You can't celebrate the differences between castes any more than you can between jailers and prisoners, or masters and slaves. Caste is codified generational inequality.

jfrbfbreudh 4y ago

> It wasn't the teacher talking about socioeconomic-status associated with eye color, but explicitly telling the children that blue-eyed kids were better than brown-eyed kids. Amazingly, the teacher had done the exact opposite and told the brown-eyed students that they were the smarter group. Now, is that your bias showing?

JadeNB 4y ago
> Amazingly, the teacher had done the exact opposite and told the brown-eyed students that they were the smarter group. Now, is that your bias showing? Rather famously, the point is that the teacher did both.
- jfrbfbreudh 4y ago
  Except the blue-eyed children went second and > But this time, something was different. Elliott noticed that the blue-eyed kids were not as condescending, not as mean, as the brown-eyed kids had been. She asked why.

bobthechef 4y ago

hypertele-Xii 4y ago

> A ridiculous and meaningless distinction Computer simulations have proven that completely arbitrary distinctions are still useful genetic indicators of fitness in evolution.