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# it's not racist
it's highlighting racist attitudes
(, Sun 29 Aug 2010, 22:11, archived)
# It's ironic or something.
(, Sun 29 Aug 2010, 22:12, archived)
# it actually highlights a cognitive phenomenon known as the "own race effect"
white people are hard to distinguish for people who live in predominantly black countries or oriental, for example... so, it has been shown by various cognitive/perceptual studies that people of one race find it difficult to distinguish faces of other races blah blah etc etc SCIENCE
(, Sun 29 Aug 2010, 22:15, archived)
# NAZI SCIENCE
you're worse than hitler etc
(, Sun 29 Aug 2010, 22:17, archived)
# NAZI SCIENCE may well have been inspired by such an effect...
but it's based on a posited facial prototype for people that helps us recognise people we would be most likely to encounter in our every day lives helping us to recognise familiar people more quickly etc.

(, Sun 29 Aug 2010, 22:21, archived)
# do you subscribe to that monkeysphere thing?
(, Sun 29 Aug 2010, 22:22, archived)
# no
i'm not aware of its existence. is it real?
(, Sun 29 Aug 2010, 22:23, archived)
#
www.cracked.com/article_14990_what-monkeysphere.html

edit: hmm, this is a badly written version of what i thought i was linkng to. ho hum
(, Sun 29 Aug 2010, 22:27, archived)
# but white people do all look the same, that's what she's saying in the picture
 
I am not familiar with the sweeties in question so I do not get that bit
(, Sun 29 Aug 2010, 22:59, archived)