The War on the West

by Douglas Murray

As no less an authority than the Arizona Department of Education recently declared, babies are able to become racist by the age of three months old. And, according to the “equity toolkit” published by the department, which made this claim, it is white babies that are the problem. The toolkit claims that “expressions of racial prejudice often peak at ages 4 and 5” but that while “Black and Latinx children” at the age of five show “no preference towards their own groups,” “white children at this age remain strongly biased in favor of whiteness.”36 A reminder that from even before the moment they are able to speak or walk, it is white children who are the problem. And white children who must be worked on to achieve the change that everybody seems to have agreed is needed.