What's frustrates me the most about this idea that colorblindness is racist is that it's largely a strawman argument. By saying "I'm colorblind" or that our nation is "colorblind" no one is dismissing someone's experience or washing away someone's culture or ethnic heritage. That was never the point of colorblindness. Rather, it's statin…
What's frustrates me the most about this idea that colorblindness is racist is that it's largely a strawman argument. By saying "I'm colorblind" or that our nation is "colorblind" no one is dismissing someone's experience or washing away someone's culture or ethnic heritage. That was never the point of colorblindness. Rather, it's stating that you should see an individual as an individual first and foremost, as someone worthy of basic human dignity and respect for their distinctness as an individual human being, and that the laws should treat people in the same manner. It's not a dismissal of culture, ethnicity, or of perspective, it's simply an understanding that a person's color does not define them nor is color accompanied by any essential characteristics.
What's frustrates me the most about this idea that colorblindness is racist is that it's largely a strawman argument. By saying "I'm colorblind" or that our nation is "colorblind" no one is dismissing someone's experience or washing away someone's culture or ethnic heritage. That was never the point of colorblindness. Rather, it's stating that you should see an individual as an individual first and foremost, as someone worthy of basic human dignity and respect for their distinctness as an individual human being, and that the laws should treat people in the same manner. It's not a dismissal of culture, ethnicity, or of perspective, it's simply an understanding that a person's color does not define them nor is color accompanied by any essential characteristics.