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Re:The Zuckerbergs Founded Two Bay Area Schools. Now They're... by latexr on Monday April 28, 2025 @05:15AM (#43819195)
Why would a racist care for anyone of a race they despise and vilify? Being a child has nothing to do with it. Children become adults and soak up the values around them; so if they hate the adults, of course they hate the children. Why would they want their perceived enemies to be safe and have basic education? That just gives them more resources to fight for revindication, which is a threat to the ones who hate them in the first place.

None of that is right, but it’s not difficult to understand either. Don’t try to find some complex logic behind it, the reasoning is incredibly basic.

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Re:The Zuckerbergs Founded Two Bay Area Schools. Now They're... by vlowrian on Monday April 28, 2025 @06:31AM (#43819662)
> Children become adults and soak up the values around them;

If this is really what they are afraid of, wouldn't depriving them of basic education reduce the amount of common values around them and make matters worse?

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Re:The Zuckerbergs Founded Two Bay Area Schools. Now They're... by vlowrian on Monday April 28, 2025 @06:15AM (#43819559)
Fair point, if hate is the ulterior motive. Do you think that hate strong enough it extends to children is widely present in the population and the public opinion?
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Re:The Zuckerbergs Founded Two Bay Area Schools. Now They're... by latexr on Monday April 28, 2025 @06:31AM (#43819663)
> hate strong enough it extends to children

Eschew the thought that children are somehow special. They’re not. They’re simply a younger version of a person, not a separate being worthy of special reverence. A racist doesn’t hate another race and then hate their children on top, they just hate the race as a whole.

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Re:The Zuckerbergs Founded Two Bay Area Schools. Now They're... by vlowrian on Monday April 28, 2025 @06:54AM (#43819808)
I don't agree. Children are special in that there are several psychological effects like baby schema, innate caregiving response, etc. which one would have to overcome. Seeing children as younger versions of adults is a very technical view which I'd be surprised if it was in any way prevalent.

You're absolutely right in that a text-book racist might not distinguish between children and adults. Imagining that this is so common it dictates decisions on this level is hard to grasp for me.

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Re:The Zuckerbergs Founded Two Bay Area Schools. Now They're... by alphabettsy on Monday April 28, 2025 @09:02AM (#43821082)
While schools were once segregated by law, today we continue to have de facto segregation that seems deliberately maintained.
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