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thrashmetal14 posted...

I mean, there's a difference between being colorblind in daily life and being colorblind in political circumstances. If I'm just interacting with different people in normal day-to-day situations I'm not really gonna be thinking about their skin color.

While political colorblindness is even worse, interpersonal colorblindness isn't great either. The key should be to treat people appropriately and well, not to ignore characteristics that do unfortunately matter. Even on an interpersonal level, race is one of the most salient factors in our society and ignoring that is going to get you into trouble. It's harder to figure out when you should take it into account and when it's not as relevant, but that's what's necessary.

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