{"id":685,"date":"2013-02-15T16:34:16","date_gmt":"2013-02-15T16:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rulesofreason.wordpress.com\/?p=685"},"modified":"2013-02-15T16:34:16","modified_gmt":"2013-02-15T16:34:16","slug":"a-lesson-about-discrimination-you-can-never-forget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-design.dimiter.eu\/?p=685","title":{"rendered":"A lesson about discrimination you can never forget"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>What happens when you tell a bunch of kids that the blue-eyed children are better than the browned-eyed? Watch this video to find out. But be warned &#8211; this is one of the most disturbing things I have seen in a long while. It is not that one is unaware that discrimination sits deep in the mind. Or that one doesn&#8217;t know kids are rather impressionable. But there is something eery the whole thing I can only compare to the \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Milgram_experiment\">Milgram experiment<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lord_of_the_Flies\" target=\"_blank\">Lord of the Flies<\/a>. Some context <a href=\"http:\/\/dangerousminds.net\/comments\/blue_eyes_brown_eyes_jane_elliotts_controversial_classroom_experiment_on_ra\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nOh, and while I appreciate the lesson, I am glad this &#8216;teaching&#8217; would&#8217;t not be possible today (I hope).<\/h5>\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe class='youtube-player' width='640' height='360' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8bWlTZZN3DY?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent' allowfullscreen='true' style='border:0;' sandbox='allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation'><\/iframe><\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What happens when you tell a bunch of kids that the blue-eyed children are better than the browned-eyed? Watch this video to find out. But be warned &#8211; this is one of the most disturbing things I have seen in a long while. It is not that one is unaware that discrimination sits deep in the mind. Or that one doesn&#8217;t know kids are rather impressionable. But there is something eery the whole thing I can only compare to the \u00a0Milgram experiment\u00a0and Lord of the Flies. Some context here. Oh, and while I appreciate the lesson, I am glad this &#8216;teaching&#8217; would&#8217;t not be possible today (I hope).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[95,130,186,355],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7g3hj-b3","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":544,"url":"http:\/\/re-design.dimiter.eu\/?p=544","url_meta":{"origin":685,"position":0},"title":"Ethnic job discrimination in the Netherlands","date":"October 29, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"I have more than one reason to care about job discrimination based on ethnicity in the Netherlands. A new study shows that there is plenty to worry about. 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