New study claims that white babies are racially biased

 A new study has been released by University of Washington that claims that white babies are racially biased. Here is more:

80 white 15-month-old babies watched as toys were distributed. This time half the babies watched as more toys were given to the Asian recipient; and the other half watched as more were given to a white recipient.

The babies were then let to choose a playmate and more times chose the white recipient.

“If all babies care about is fairness, then they would always pick the fair distributor, but we’re also seeing that they’re interested in consequences for their own group members,” Sommerville said.

Researchers say that these findings take race into account when babies choose a playmate.

“Babies are sensitive to how people of the same ethnicity as the infant, versus a different ethnicity, are treated – they weren’t just interested in who was being fair or unfair,” Monica Burns, co-author of the study and a former UW Psychology undergraduate student, and currently a psychology graduate student at Harvard University, said. “It’s interesting how infants integrate information before choosing who to interact with, they’re not just choosing based on a single dimension.”

  She was quick to point out that this does not mean these babies are racists because they did not exhibit any hostility toward the Asian babies, but note that this study did not test minority babies to see if they displayed the same characteristics. There seems to have been an agenda here, and since when did anyone think 15 year old babies had any concept of fairness in the first place?