July 7, 2008, - 1:55 pm
Weird Science: Big Brother PC Taste Test for (British) Kiddies
By Debbie Schlussel
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 . . . .
What in the world is going on in Europe and why are there so many who think America should be more like it???
Blayne on July 7, 2008 at 2:24 pm