tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post6470831785540550695..comments2024-02-10T18:19:36.406-08:00Comments on Newspaper Rock: Racism hurts...literallyRobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01478763837213733775noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-13679175044972876592007-07-18T18:05:00.000-07:002007-07-18T18:05:00.000-07:00Writerfella here -- Preliminary or no, if cond...Writerfella here --<BR/> Preliminary or no, if conditioned responses even to imaginary or fictional racism occur among those who have been subjected to such racism, an opposite quantity also is being indicated. And that would be that racism itself also is a conditioned response, which writerfella maintains is fostered and perpetuated by families, peers, schools, churches, communities, -AND- the media.<BR/> Has anyone thought to measure the physiological and psychological effects of racism on those who practice racism? In like manner, those effects may not go away very soon, either.<BR/> In THE NOTEBOOKS OF LAZARUS LONG, Robert A. Heinlein had his millennia-old sage discourse on religion and children: "If I chose between giving a child cookies and teaching him religion, I believe I would give him cookies. The results would be very pleasant and nowhere near as long-lasting..."<BR/>All Best<BR/>Russ Bates<BR/>'Writerfella'writerfellahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00111681906238053379noreply@blogger.com