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"'Colorblindness' is a massive, misguided gaslighting effort against people of color", and many more hot takes by the luminaries of rpolitics when the topic of CRT gets brought up

https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/oba2pj/comment/h3o8x72?context=1&sort=controversial

words*300 trigger warning legit though, jfc this is way too many words


The issue is “colorblindness”.

"Colorblindness” is a massive, misguided gaslighting effort against people of color. It’s little more than a really weak attempt to invalidate the concept of systemic racism. That’s why the political Right won’t let it go, even though social scientists abandoned it a long time ago.

Let’s all acknowledge that no one is actually “blind” to race. We all see and unconsciously recognize the physical and/or cultural markers of race when we see a human.

Seeing those things is not racist. It would be absurd to claim that acknowledging and appreciating the diversity of the human experience is racist. What’s racist is choosing to be ignorant of the cultural and historical contexts that have a material impact on the lives of people unlike yourself. The simple fact of the matter is that society hasn’t and doesn’t treat everyone the same.

On an individual level, we all have unconscious biases. Even if you don’t think you’re racist. Whether you choose to accept it or not, they do impact the way you move through the world.

Rules aren’t colorblind, either. Schools across the U.S. have dress codes that specifically ban natural Black hair and hairstyles, deeming it distracting or unprofessional. Is it “colorblind” when children of one race are told that their natural features are good enough for school, while children of another race are told that their natural features are unacceptable and forced to commit time and energy to altering themselves in order to gain access to an education?

Redlining. Crack vs cocaine. Racial biases in hiring.

Pretending colorblindness is a thing is a massive slap in the face to the people who have been affected by these and other systemic inequities.

Social scientists moved beyond colorblindness decades ago. Just because the general public has been held back by right-wing talking points doesn’t mean we need to entertain these outdated nonsense concepts.

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horseshoe theory is many dimensional


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Senescent

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actually true

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even though social scientists abandoned it a long time ago.

We would live in an utopia when we always did the exact opposite of what social 'scientists' say

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I didn't need to click on that users profile to know she was mayo, but:

ADHD

Eating disorder

Can't stop smoking weed

Socially awkward (can't land a job after interviewing)

Portland

Bisexual

It really doesn't get much more mayo than that

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Opinion piece: We embrace no simple or orthodox set of principles, so no one can really be “trained” in CRT.

Unfathomably unfalsifiable.

the “Whites Only” signs were gone, but the racial power remained in a myriad of social practices—now couched in the language of race-neutrality

Always right because "racial power" is ambiguous.

words words words

This basic effort to tell the truth—the inspiring as well as the ugly—about American history and government must be encouraged, not denounce

Georgetown Uni flexing real hard while saying, "I'm not flexing, bro."

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'systemic racism' triggers me in how vague it is. Tell me exactly which law or system is doing racist things otherwise it's just some christianity 2.0 obligated guilt bollocks.

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rightoids seething too so thats nice to see

I think everyone posting here is missing a huge point. It is not just some arcane branch of collegiate level study any more. People all across the country are using CRT as a basis for change. Education is a clear example. Math apparently is no longer an absolute science, and it is racist to push for correct answers. CRT justifies this stance by its obsession w pointing out differences in the races, and its unwillingness to accept universal truths that ALL races can ascribe to equally. How is that helpful to any minority community in the long run? Or society at large? The state of Virginia has new guidelines being discussed to make higher math less available to high school students because access to different levels of math based on ability is not ‘equitable’ education. CRT gives breath and space for this sort of defeatist thinking. How is this good, for anyone? How can people not see that CRT is creating a GIANT opportunity for those who would prefer a return to segregation and racist policies? If my kid cant take trig in 3 years because of this sort of thinking, how am I supposed to respond to that on an emotional level? Should I have to put my kids in private schools to avoid policies like that? Who am I going to resent for that? While learning how everyone got to where we are is great, I just can’t accept using that knowledge to push us all down to a lower common denominator.

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Again, I fully support removing colourblindness from society. Let's make everything race based

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jannies please quit fricking with the text formatting, i have 0iq and even fewer brain cells to deal with this shit

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