Replying to Color Blindness and Racism
I hate colors cause Im legitimately 100% color blind, i.e. what I see as green is red to most people. So I've lived to learn with the fact that I see stuff in a complete different color than most. It was annoying at first because I didn't know what the fuck people were talking about when they'd say things like "hey go grab that blue thing over there." Eventually I just said fuck it though cause I it was dumb for me to allow something as trivial as a color to piss me off. Now when people are describing things to me with a color I just tell to them that they need to tell me what it physically is that they are describing to me to get in the future or else I'll be clueless about what they are talking about. I also don't use colors to describe things anymore as well. I used to say shit like "hey look at that yellow sign" and people would look at me like Im retarded so now I just avoid that by describing things by what they physically are instead. A lot people that aren't aware Im color blind still do this, but I've gotten to the point to where I could care less about not seeing shit in the right color anymore. A red truck is still a truck so I realized its the actual physical item that makes up something, not its color.
I was thinking though, If we did this when it comes to describing people too than would it fix racism. Instead of saying "hey look at that black man over there", just say "he look at that man over there." Like I said earlier, I red truck is still truck. So a black man is still a man just like a white man is a man. If we consciously forced our selves to not label people by their color than maybe it'd fix racism. Of course it'd still be in the back of the minds of those who are racists. But maybe if they forced them selves to do this than they'd eventually not see people by their color, but just as a human being. Similar to how I trained myself to see objects by what they actually are and not by there color.
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