To know a racist .......

Someone asked me how do you define someone as racist ……….

I thought about it for a bit ……..then I told her ……well there is one experiment that I think maybe able to prove that person is a racist.

If you can put subject adult and a 3 year old child of a different race in a room, and observe this adult’s behavior ……you can tell that person is a definite racist.

How?

The reason I think a child is the best candidate is solely based on the theory no child is born a racist. That child represents two things innocents and his own race. And also to eliminate other possibility that may influence the subject adult.

Like how?

Well as an adult we tend to take a person’s history and their background facts to hate someone. Usually there is a reason. So if you use a child that barely has any bad history …..Then it falls down to that person’s race.

So if you place a 3 year old child in a room with a subject adult. We can see how the adult behave around the kid.

1. ·         Is the adult angry at that child just because of the child’s skin tone?
2. ·         Does the adult feel like harming that child either physically or emotionally even though the child did nothing?
3. ·         Does he feel disgusted with the child even though the child offers toys and candies to the adult?
4. ·         Is the adult angry about anything else besides the child’s race?

If all the answer is yes (except the last one). Then it is clear that the adult is racist.

Some may argue maybe the adult is just child hater or a sexist. I say in order to eliminate that possibility they only need to test the same adult with another child of the same race with the adult.  As for eliminating gender bias the same method can be used but eliminate the race difference.

If the adult show no aggression or disgust to a child of same race and of different gender, then there is possibility that he showed anger towards the child of a different race solely based on race, since we already eliminated the possibility that he has no problem with children and gender.

I know it sounds weird. But I thought about it for sometime……….. I could be wrong but I do have a theory.