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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsYeah, I'm not that big a fan of people who keep saying that they're "colorblind"
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Yeah, I'm not that big a fan of people who keep saying that they're "colorblind" (Original Post)
MrScorpio
Jul 2013
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I'm not a big fan of them either, they can't tell the green towel from the grey one
arcane1
Jul 2013
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Solly Mack
(90,740 posts)1. K&R
ZombieHorde
(29,047 posts)2. I'm a bit slow. When I read your subject line, I thought
you were talking about actual color blindness, as in the eye disorder.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)5. I'm not a big fan of them either, they can't tell the green towel from the grey one
Aerows
(39,961 posts)7. Thank goodness
my sister monitors what my brother-in-law wears. He's dorky enough as it is without showing up in neon colors. He's extremely color blind.
HipChick
(25,485 posts)3. Is that kinda like ...."I have a black friend"
so I can't be racist...
arcane1
(38,613 posts)4. "@PlantationJobCreator"
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)6. I used to post on Riehl World View way back when
I'd totally forgotten about Riehl, he's a moran of the highest order, lost track of how many times I got booted off there.
LWolf
(46,179 posts)8. I'm not colorblind.
I don't want to be.
I want to see the world in living color, and celebrate the richness, the depth, the complexity that diversity brings.
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)9. Is it OK to say that you really don't give a shit about people's race, color or religion?
Or does that come too close to the dreaded "colorblind"?
JI7
(89,172 posts)10. the point is people who claim to not care often are racist
MrScorpio
(73,626 posts)11. ^^^ THIS!!!! ^^^ nt
XemaSab
(60,212 posts)12. They see color
up to the point when the subject of institutional racism and white privilege is pointed out, and then all of a sudden they're "colorblind."