Brain disorder eradicates ethnic but not gender bias.
13th April 2010
Children with a neurodevelopmental disorder called Williams syndrome (WS) are overly friendly because they do not fear strangers. Now, a study shows that these children also do not develop negative attitudes about other ethnic groups, even though they show patterns of gender stereotyping found in other children. “This is the first evidence that different forms of stereotypes are biologically dissociable,” says Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg, director of the Central Institute of Mental Health in Mannheim, Germany, who led the study published today in Current Biology1.
So racists are normal, and non-racists have a brain disorder. I wonder whether this new fact will get as much publicity as it would where things the other way? Somehow I doubt it.
UPDATE: And, as you might expect, Steve Sailer has a lot of fun with this.