Do parents encourage their children to be racist?

[exiluvexi]

If their parents are racist their going to raise their kids to be that way to.

[flatbean964]

I'm sure That's true for some, but I doubt it's the norm. I think TV helps form those opinions along with real world situations. Not to mention, a lot of kids saw Obama get elected with record turn out for minority voters ever. It kinda puts a bad taste in ur mouth. He won simply because he was using the first black president card. Trust me, I'm still reeling over it. I think its pretty shatty that that was the only reason so many got out n voted. That speaks load.

[Roullette]

I remember when i was a teenager, my mother said to me ''dont ever think whites are your friends.'' ...i will never forget those words...never but yet again she told me ''you mustnt marry a black man.'' like a week ago so i dont know what she wants...............

[Old Taft Beatles]

Yes. They just start at a young age. They teach their kids at birth to be racists and chances are that they will follow.

[Lee]

Yes, even though a child can pick it up from school, peers, and the media as well, the family is considered to be the most influential agent in the conditioning of a child. So while we shouldn't assume it's the parents that taught the child to be racist, the odds that they learned it from home are very likely but they probably picked up some beliefs from other sources as well.

[CariChick]

It's sad, bit some parents do raise their children to openly hate or be prejudiced against certain groups of people. They go about doing this by talking bad about the certain group of people to their children since they're infants, which causes the child to grow up thinking negatively about that group of people. Then when they go out and see these people they would openly display hatred and dissaproval for them. And it doesn't always have to do with race. Sometimes, it's a certain nationality, gender, sexual orientation, complexion, size, etc.

My father is like that. He is extremely ignorant and narrow-minded and openly hates gay people and people that are overweight. He ridicules/talks bad about gays and overweight people all the time to my brother and sister and they actually hang on to everything he says about them and they also openly hate gays and overweight people. What sucks even more is that I, myself am over 200 pounds and he is alway insulting me because of my weight, asking me about how much I exercise, and everytime he sees me eating anything, he ridicules me and tells me that I need to only eat salads. He also poves to make up ridiculous stories about me eating whole packs of bacon, whole tubs of butter, whole large pizzas, etc. to make it look as if I have these horrible eating habits. He has gotten my brothwr and sister into this habit of constantly accusing me of eating all the food in the house. Then when I try to defend myself, he woultld tell me that it shows on me as if I'm the one eating all the food and that people only get fat when they eat too much.

[Brandon]

Some do, some don't, it'd depend on the people, usually people that are say like a Klansman, Skinhead or neo - Nazi, are likely to raise their children as racist people, the way they do this is they'll take their children to a conference and stuff like that, and basically just like anyone else, if you're around someone for a certain amount of time they're influence will wear off on you, that could be caused by either family or friend. I don't know much about Skinhead and neo - Nazi, but I know children of Klansman/Klanswoman are usually raised to be Klansman/Klanswoman.

[Kaviani999]

Basically, yes, but they would never consider their racism to be racism. To them, you're only "racist" if you're a card carrying member of the Nazi party or KKK. As long as you don't have that extremist image, you're technically not racist (in their puny minds, at least).

Common (not so covert) racist indoctrination:
Teaching kids tacitly that their experience w/any minority person or their media proxies is representative of the entire minority demographic. This can be positive racism, too, like "Oh, Asians are so brilliant and talented!" Sucks to be a dyslexic, LD Asian kid in that scenario who gets to hear "I thought all Asians were geniuses" or something stupid like that.

Remarking to kids openly that any mention or discussion of race or racism is racism itself. This one is very popular now with conservatives who use it to refuse dialogue on the matter because they cannot accept any challenge to their pathetic perceptions of correctness.

Overt stereotyping when no minority contact is available, usually with asinine commentary like "There are Black people and there are n!ggers." Really? Not a single Black person in your life and you're an expert on this...how incredible. I didn't know racists were psychics.

Blatant omission - denying any minority media or representation in their children's lives, like moving a kid out of a Latina teacher's class because of unspecified "concerns", changing the channel when a racially charged news story is on (Trayvon Martin, for instance), or refusing to let kids consume other media that's not from their own phenotype. Immigrant families are particularly vulnerable to the latter...I can vouch for that.

Teaching children that racism is "free speech" and ok if you do it with fellow racists. This includes those sh!tty mockery events that Greek houses do ("Ghetto Party" or "Rio Grande Border Party") These people also have a very poor grasp on what "free speech" means and apparently don't have a social media tutorial on when to stfu (as teenage Twitter activity routinely demonstrates). Then they get mad when you point out their very public, racist comments and try to make it about their perceived oppression instead of their original offensiveness. A common (and flaccid) retort to this is "It was a joke." mmhmmmmm. It's so funny I forgot to laugh, assh0le. Here's my punchline.