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Will a hate crime be reported for a baby replying "yuck" to a foreign food during 2008?

Current forecast: 18% chance
Combining all predictions, the current forecast is that this is 18% likely to happen (unchanged in last 1 day)

Warning....

This article, which look like a parody, or something you would expect to find in The Onion is an actual news story and may make you feel a bit naseous.




Claim: Kids who say 'yuck' may be racist

LONDON, July 7 (UPI) -- Toddlers who say "yuck" when given flavorful foreign food may be exhibiting racist behavior, a British government-sponsored organization says.

The London-based National Children's Bureau released a 366-page guide counseling adults on recognizing racist behavior in young children, The Telegraph reported Monday.

The guide, titled Young Children and Racial Justice, warns adults that babies must also be included in the effort to eliminate racism because they have the ability to "recognize different people in their lives."

The bureau says to be aware of children who "react negatively to a culinary tradition other than their own by saying "yuck".

"Racist incidents among children in early years settings tend to be around name-calling, casual thoughtless comments and peer group relationships," the guide says.

Staff members are advised not to ignore racist actions and to condemn them when they occur.

Again!!! Be ever vigilent for the racist babies! They could be coming to a play pen near you!

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=upiUPI-20080707-122008-1071&show_article=1

This market will settle for yes if it is reported in a major mainstream news source that a parent or legal guardian in either the United States or the UK of a baby age two or less will have been reprimanded or fined, or charged in any way with a hate crime due to their baby commenting on a flavorful foreign food with any of the (apparent) racist comments of:

Yuck, Yucky, Ooo, Icky, Blech or Phooey
 
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Initial likelihoods: Yes: 20%

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Created Mon 7th Jul 8:48pm PDT by valornhonor[Power User]
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yarddog predicted No (H$35 at 82%)
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oppugner predicted No (H$100 at 82%)
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onedave predicted No (H$20 at 82%)
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amberjyn predicted No (H$100 at 82%)
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valornhonor[Power User] predicted Yes (H$18 at 18%)
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Comments

Just when I think I'm going to have to create something outlandish to make a new market I find something like this... racist babies... who knew?!
posted 6 weeks ago
  2 dieseldog
@valor...you can come up with some good ones. sad thing is i could see this as happening. imho the USA is way to PC.
posted 6 weeks ago
  3 randburg
...and peas (yuck)...and spinach (yuck)...and strained lamb (yuck)...

Maybe we make babies racist before they can see straight...
posted 6 weeks ago
  4 ryanj[Admin]
"Mam unfortunately we've discovered that you've given birth to a Racist Baby, you have our condolences"

Only somewhere in the bureaucratic UK would something like this occur...

Ryan
posted 6 weeks ago
  5 oppugner
And what happens when the baby says yuck to their own national dish or other national staple? Will they be flagged as a future seditionist? [sigh]
posted 1 week ago
  6 markc
Whoever wrote this dumb article slanted it so as to provoke controversy. The only direct quote from the study says "children," but somehow this gets translated into "baby" by the writer. Babies don't "name call" or have "peer group relationships," and it's not exactly controversial to note that children who are old enough to do such things may sometime have racist or otherwide intolerant attitudes.
posted 4 days ago
My sixteen month old son threw down a piece of apple I gave him this afternoon and made a face. It was close, but hopefully I will still be able to visit my home state of Washington with him someday without too much red tape....
posted 4 days ago

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