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Kafke  ·  3632 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why a Black 'Annie' Is So Significant - The Atlantic

If you phrase it as "which is the nice doll and which looks bad?" naturally you'd get white=good black=evil.

That's not even about skin color. It's about color. Just like how red would be 'bad', blue would be 'good', green/yellow are both 'good' colors. Purple could go either way, but I think it leans on the 'bad' side.

And the way that the question is phrased makes it sound like there's one of each, not two of one.

Loaded question. That's like asking: which is "good" food and which is "bad"? Both could be potentially good/bad.