coriolanus

Right. The reason my house is brown is: lack of exposure to blue paint.

No one is saying you can't convince babies, or anyone, not to be racist. Actually, if history proves anything, it's that you can convince anyone of anything if you get to them early enough.

Certainly.

The point is just that the statement is literally false. That doesn't mean it can't be poetically true.

My fault -- you can find much better links if you search for 15 seconds instead of 5:

https://www.utoronto.ca/news/racial-bias-may-begin-babies-si...

Here's a better link:

https://www.utoronto.ca/news/racial-bias-may-begin-babies-si...

Perhaps it's popular because it's not true. But it should be true, and everyone wishes it was true.

The evolutionary basis of xenophobia is well-understood. A quick search turns up, for example:

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/...

Babies of about the same age as the ones shown in Obama's tweet already display instinctive xenophobia:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/are-babies-bigo...