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I have to disagree in all seriousness. I know it seems counterintuitive but being “colorblind” is problematic. Racism is much more complex than just plain old racial bias. White people enjoy countless advantages in nearly every task we take as adults. Sometimes recognizing that a person has had none of those advantages lets you evaluate them more accurately. If you start by accepting that we “swim in the waters of white supremacy” on a daily basis (to borrow Robin D’Angelou’s white fragility thesis) you start to see the errors in this path.
Comment by Fikkia at 22/07/2020 at 07:38 UTC
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Eh.
I prefer not judging someone based on colour. In 50 years of doing that we'd see real permanent change. This new way of thinking just creates more racism on both sides.
I'd prefer a system that judges people on who they are as individuals. The path right now seems focused on identifying people as racist/not racist regardless of their actions and purely on their skin colour. It's a terrible system that's creating some pretty terrible people on both sides. And I mean, it's an anti-racist agenda based around being inherently racist.
It's also the kind of system where saying you should judge someone on who are they as a person is considered a bad thing. So there's no way to convince me it was conceived with good intentions.
Comment by ian58 at 12/07/2020 at 11:48 UTC
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Actually racism *is* just as simple as racial bias. That's what the word means