HHS Grants NYU $40,000 to Study What It Calls Youngsters’ Preference for ‘Whiteness and Maleness’

HHS Grants NYU $40,000 to Study What It Calls Youngsters’ Preference for ‘Whiteness and Maleness’
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Tens of thousands of federal tax dollars are flowing to New York University to uncover why kids allegedly “favor Whiteness and maleness over other identities,” official data show.

The three-year project, titled “Societal assumptions regarding typical personhood and their effects on reasoning development,” will obtain a total of $40,391 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).