Is racism hardwired into the Daily Mail brain? posted by Richard Seymour

The Daily Mail has bad news for "right-thinking" people everywhere: Racism is "hardwired" into the human brain. Even well-meaning progressives "make unconscious decisions based on a person's race". It is inescapable.

The one small hitch in this story is adverted to in that shopworn phrase "scientists say". A discordant note should always sound in the reader's mind when a journalist opens an article with this assurance. For, in point of fact, scientists don't say.

Labels: capitalist ideology, daily mail, evolutionary psychology, ideology, media, racism, reactionaries

Steven Rose v Richard Dawkins posted by Richard Seymour

Labels: 'human nature', 'new atheism', dawkins, evolution, evolutionary psychology, reactionaries, socialism, sociobiology