Being color-blind doesn't entail ignoring skin color all the time - only in those times where it isn't applicable - like when you're an employer hiring someone, or as a citizen voting for someone. It only make sense to talk about skin-color and race in biological/medical contexts - and yes, when describing someone so that they can locate them in a crowd when the crowd is made up of both blacks and whites. You wouldn't need to point out skin color in a crowd when everyone's skin color is the same.I came to the same conclusion myself - but it's difficult to practise. The scenario is that you're describing a person of colour to a third party, and you don't want to use "race"/skin colour descriptors. You've suggested describing physical characteristics. (Unlike other contributors, I'm happy to imply that you obviously meant characteristics other than skin colour.) The question arises: how important is it that the third party can recognise the described person. The UK police, out of necessity rather than racism, use numbered "race" categories. I'll continue to struggle with this one. I don't like to say, "black", but sometimes I have to. "African" isn't always appropriate. Same with "brown" and "South Asian". "Mixed race" sounds wrong to me. Is "mixed ethnicity" any better? I'm with the OP - lets do it! — Chris Hughes
What racial discrimination in 2 isn't actually 1? — frank
Oh, yes. How about:Any example of these “(white) racists who boast about their "colour-blindness" while continuing to blithely practise personal and institutional racism”? — NOS4A2
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/07/the-myth-of-trumps-colorblindness/594124/My father... is color-blind — Ivanka Trump"
No, evidence that the U.S. is already an equal-treatment country. — Harry Hindu
Are you being ironic or genuine? Presumably one or the other. If genuine, I apologise. I think we humans are all racist. Or rather, we're all instinctively wary of strangers. (The instinct probably evolved as protection against communicable disease.) Racism as such is probably a modern European colonial cultural twist on that instinct. If we're aware of that, it's easy enough to choose to live above it (as with other twisted antisocial monsters from the id).I am ashamed Chris — Bert1
King said he didn't want his children judged by the colour of their skin. He never said he wanted the colour of their skin to be ignored.MLK and Nelson Mandela expressed color-blind principles — NOS4A2
:yawn: Just Saying ... — 180 Proof
Once you have established that someone heavily relies upon bad faith as an argument strategy, you don't play that game with them any more. — fdrake
King said he didn't want his children judged by the colour of their skin. He never said he wanted the colour of their skin to be ignored.
That's true. However, googling produces many articles about conservatives misusing King's "Dream" speech to justify ignoring racism. Eg:That’s the essential point of colorblindness, to refuse to judge by the color of another’s skin. — NOS4A2
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/23/martin-luther-king-dream-speech-misunderstandWhite conservatives use King's words as cover for rebutting affirmative action. When confronted with any program that targets assistance at blacks and other minorities from college admissions to corporate hiring, conservatives say: "But Dr King said to be colorblind". When dismantling voter protections for blacks in the south, the say: "But Dr. King said to be colorblind". When defending racial profiling and stop-and-frisk policies, they say: "Hey, look, we're trying to be colorblind here, but we can't help it if young black men commit all this crime." — Guardian, UK, August 2013
That sounds remarkably like alt-rightism.We cannot favor races in policy while discriminating against others, especially at the institutional level. It’s institutional racism. — NOS4A2
In other words: Don't feed trolls! Right on. :victory: — 180 Proof
Do you believe a government should discriminate between its citizens on the basis of their race?
That sounds remarkably like alt-rightism.
Given the history of slavery, yes.Do you believe a government should discriminate between its citizens on the basis of their race? — NOS4A2
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