GF is finishing up college, doing a ton of Health and Nutrition classes. She loves to share interesting facts from her classes, and I love to hear them. Lately she has been doing a lot of units on racial disparity in health and nutrition, including in childhood. The most recent point of interest was that babies are greatly affected by how their mothers behave and think during pregnancy. Then the paper tried to push a "hypothesis" that babies are affected by their mother's stress level, so therefore African American babies come out at a disadvantage because their moms are so stressed from racism. (Yes, this was the main listed stressor.)
I usually try to push back against these brain worms in a humorous way, it has done a great job at making her question every "source" and their reason for saying such weird things. This time, I went with the obvious "Yeah, it must be really stressful to stand in line and get free money every week. But it is definitely the racism making them stressed and not the ten other kids, pit bulls, and gunshots going off 24/7." I don't want to be obnoxious, but I also don't want her to become brainwashed. I want for her to have survival instincts and to not inherently trust blacks because of tolerance and liberalism.
She is from a rural area and has never interacted with black people, so she mostly defers to my judgement with them. But it is hilarious seeing her university she paid for try to make her tolerant via "academia." These courses always skirt around addressing the race problem head on, and come up with insane hypotheses about why racism and the system is making blacks so poor, stupid, and dysfunctional. Praying she doesn't end up with some job that involves handing out condoms and shots to black people, as that is what most Department of Health jobs that people strive for involve.
Anyways guys stop being racist, we are the reason black children are dysfunctional. Its not like they live within a homogeneous enclave of only blacks interacting with blacks, where a black child only meets white people from CPS or school. It's gotta be our fault.