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_refugee_ · 3918 days ago · link · · parent · post: Willful Ignorance - On the Perception of Race From Someone Too White to Be Black and Too Black to Be White
But this is really an offensive statement, right? In a way it says that "white" is both the norm and something that everyone should aspire to, that "seeming white" is a place that we want everyone to go. It's diminishing your own culture and what it means to you. With that in mind being "colorblind" is also in a way negative or pejorative. Being colorblind means: I see you as associating to the norm. or I see you as white. It diminishes your personhood as a person of color and culture. It says, "I don't see you as belonging to your own culture." It says, "I don't see you - at all."they forget I'm not white