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Should We Be Colorblind?
Nothing reveals the moral confusion of our time more than those who label the term “colorblind” racist. Who would want to see themselves in terms of their skin color? And what does a person’s skin color really say about who they are — their likes, dislikes, values, and so on?
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There is little that reveals the moral confusion of the left as much as its labelling the term “colorblind” racist.
Here are just a few examples:
The University of California publishes a list of terms and ideas it considers racist. The list includes the term “colorblindness.”
Psychology Today published an article by a psychology professor titled, “Colorblind Ideology Is a Form of Racism.”
HuffPost published a piece titled, “How Colorblindness Is Actually Racist,” in which the author gives three examples of statements whites make that are allegedly racist:
“I am colorblind.”
“I see people, not color.”
“We are all the same.”
The Disney Company recommends that its white employees atone for their racism by “challeng[ing] colorblind ideologies and rhetoric” such as . . . “I don’t see color.”
Even the U.S. Army has gotten into the act. It sent an email to personnel saying that the word colorblind is evidence of white supremacy.
I could give dozens of examples of the left’s Orwellian definition of “colorblind” as “racist.”
Why Orwellian?
Because becoming colorblind is precisely what people opposed to racism should aspire to.
That is why Martin Luther King’s most famous quote, from his most famous speech, is “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”
The left’s position is that Martin Luther King was wrong.
But it’s the left that’s wrong. The colorblind person is the very definition of a non-racist person.
Here’s one obvious proof: The worst racists—defenders of slavery, supporters of Jim Crow laws, the Ku Klux Klan, just to cite American examples—were the least colorblind people. Color is the one thing they and all racists see. Precisely because they defined people by their color, they justified subjugation of blacks.
Colorblind means one does not believe a person’s color is in any way significant.
Isn’t that the ideal? Shouldn’t we define a person by their heart, mind, personality, and, as Martin Luther King said, above all, character?
Does anyone look into a mirror and see color? No, they don’t. They see a human being. When a white person looks into a mirror does he or she think, “Look, a white person!” When a black person looks into a mirror, does he or she think, “Look, a black person!”
Of course not. When we look at ourselves, we see John, or Jessica, or Tameka, or Jose. We see ourselves—not color. Why isn’t that how we would want everyone to see us?
The left’s insistence that color is important is one of the most racist and anti-human doctrines of our time. It was precisely when America was most racist that people’s color was deemed most important. Why would we want to return to that time?
Why is your skin color any more important than your hair color or, for that matter, the color of your shoes?
Name one important thing your color tells others about you. You can’t.
Does your color tell us if you’re kind, or smart, or what foods or music you like, or what you do for a living? Does it tell us anything about the most important thing about you—your values?
No. Your color tells us nothing about you.
So, why should anyone not be colorblind? To be colorblind means one ignores the least important thing about you. Isn’t that a good thing? And isn’t the opposite position—that your race is important—racist?
Those who revere the Bible must be colorblind. The only thing the Bible tells us about Adam is that he was created in God’s image. If the Bible placed any significance on race, wouldn’t it have told us Adam’s color? And does God have a color?
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This video gave me nausea
At some point he will actually present an argument the left makes, right?
Dennis is just making up enemies out of the left over here and quoting the ONE QUOTE any of the people on the right know Martin Luther said, so since all the dirty details are just useless guff Dennis made up, let's just address the main question: "Should we be colorblind?"
In an ideal world where racial disparities don't and never have been a source of discriminatory behavior, yes. Unfortunately, as much as Dennis and those on the right would like you to think it so, we don't live in that world. No, we live in a world where black people were made slaves, the practice was continued even after the civil war through debt peonage and convict leasing up to 1942, reparations was cancelled, black people were denied and have still been denied the GI bill for WW2 and thus vast swathes of them became stuck in cities their wives moved to in order to aid the war effort, redlining happened, sundown towns existed, broken windows policies resulting in overpoliced neighborhoods, black people receiving greater sentences for the same crime, the war on drugs objectively being used to target black people and hippies, the fact that you're less likely to get a call back on a job if you have a black sounding name, and it may be petty in comparison, but Mississippi, didn't ratify the 13th Amendment until 2013! This is hardly an exhaustive list, but if you choose to be colorblind, it allows you to ignore all of this inconvenient history that America still has yet to pay for.
So should we today be colorblind? No.
Race is a meaningless social construct that was made up by humans and it has been used to divide us.
https://youtu.be/2MFmC6BD1B4
Colorblindness can facilitate racism. You can see color and still not be racist.
Colorblind laws and practices are impossible to target communities of color.
Except for poll taxes, the grandfather clause, literacy tests, the drug war, etc.
Martin Luther King, famously not a believer in reparations which are inherently not colorblind
Claiming to be color blind is racist but not because of what you might think. Racist use the term color blindness to explain away their racial hatreds. The truest sense of not being racist does not exist in the lie “I don’t see color” it truly lies in “I don’t care about the color of your skin”, all I want to know is can you do the job?
Basically, the left are saying “no matter what you say white people are racist, neener neener X10.”
Basically the left are childish monsters in adult bodies.
Bottom line: Stop defending yourself — only leftists can be racist.
A person's skin color and ethnicity is something to celebrate and honor. It IS a part of who they are in this world. I'm a mother, a wife, a daughter. An American and Californian.
I'm a homeschooler, an artist, nature lover.
I'm a Christian and a Libertarian.
I'm also mixed blood European with a little Hebew and Native American blood. (Okay, I'm "white")
These are all a part of who I am.
There's nothing wrong with acknowledging these types of things in other people.
It's when we use any of these types of things you discriminate against someone else receiving common respect and benefits that there's a problem.
This is the issue with "Left vs Right" arguments. It's either black or white in their stances and just like real skin color, there are actually several shades in between. I for one don't want to make blanket statements like "not being colorblind is racist " or "being colorblind is racist". Seeing someone's unique place in the world isn't racist unless you use it against them.
It's time for white people to STOP being color blind. White people are the only people on earth who are color blind, and it's being used to dilute our demographics across the Western world, and leaves White people to be victim to racial identity politics aimed at demonizing White people & stripping them of their voice, culture, and heritage. We cannot be color blind if every race refuses to do the same— this doesn't mean being a white supremacist, or hating others, but racial awareness is something White's have been so brow beaten out of having, simple statements like "It's OK to be White" lead to Leftist outrage.
WE ARE HATED by Leftists; they wish to depose us of all of our demographic and political strength. We allow them to be our moral compass for the most inane, innocuous statements in defense of our European culture & heritage. Multi Multiculturalism has failed, and so long as every person on earth holds on to a racial identity, I don't see why White people should disgard there's at their own detriment.
SLAVERY HAS BEEN ENDEMIC WORLDWIDE FOE THE LAST 5000 YEARS . BLACK WHITE ORIENTAL ETC ALL HAVE BEEN SLAVES
1803 ENGLAND BANNED IMPORTING SLAVES
1808 THE USA BANNED IMPORTING SLAVES
THIS WAS THE FIRST TIME IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD THAT ANYONE SAID NO TO SLAVERY
WHY AREN'T THOSE TWO COUNTRIES ACKNOWLEDGED AND COMMENDED
Your race, profession, sexual orientation, gender, age, beliefs (whether political, religious/ lack thereof, etc), or the color of your shirt plays no factor to who you are as a human being.
People that say “color blind is racist” are racist.
That’s why the kkk still endorses demoKKKrats exclusively to this very day.
Yes.
Great video!
Its not about skin color, its about intelligence and generitics. Just look, how islamic countries mass practice incest, and how they degenerating themselves into violent inbreeds.
Prager is responding to a strawman. He's not responding to any arguments here:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9zywWm20tWQ
Being opposed to colorblindness is acknowledging the issues that people with different colors of skin face, not judging everyone by their skin.
He mentions the least colorblind people were KKK and Hitler, yes that is true, you wanna know who else wasn't colorblind, oh hey, that's MLK again.
MLK wasn't racist was he. How do you hope to combat this?
There is a difference between not caring about someone's skin color in a normal conversation (which is good)
And ignoring someone's skin color when talking about racism just so that old white men can ignore white privilege (which is bad)
Ignoring someone's skin color IS racist if it's being used to ignore racism.
Therefore. being colorblind in this sense, is racist, so best not to call yourself colorblind.
Being "colorblind" is the same as saying that Jewish people in particular didn't suffer from wildly higher amounts of hate crimes in WW2 because everyone did.
When MLK said he wanted to live in a world where people weren't judged by the color of their skin he was NOT saying he wanted to live in a world where people completely ignored skin.
Read any other quote form him or even try to understand this ONE quote he did a little better and you would learn that what he said in that speech was not what prager u says it was.
Being opposed to colorblindness is acknowledging the issues that people with different colors of skin face, not judging everyone by their skin.
He mentions the least colorblind people were KKK and Hitler, yes that is true, you wanna know who else wasn't colorblind, oh hey, that's MLK again.
MLK wasn't racist was he. How do you hope to combat this?
Prager u knows it's audience won't do research and that's the issue. They lie because they know the only people that will do research are the people opposed to the idea.
And then the people that support Prager, that don't do research, call the people that do research wrong. hmm. interesting. Almost like Prager U is racist.
Plus he made the argument that people that look in the mirror don't see a color.
That's not true, non white people in particular do see and think about the color of their skin because racist people treat them differently in day to day life.
I REPEAT being non colorblind does not mean you judge people by the color of their skin, it means you acknowledge the disadvantage in life and the racism that they face. simple as that.
Dennis prager: “I don’t see colour race means nothing to me”
Also Dennis prager: exclusively gets black people who agree with him to do segments on black issues to not appear racist
reminder people, Dennis Prager supported someone that thought that the slavery of black people was good. wow.
Saying racism doesn't exist because you are supposed to see everyone the same, is racist in itself. The color of your skin don't mean shit until it does. It's not like it doesn't exist, ignoring someone's skin color when talking to them yeah obviously. Ignoring someone's skin when talking about racism is racist.
I guess I am a leftist. Dennis Prager would certainly see me as one. So it’s no surprise that I have a huge problem with this video. But here’s why. I don’t automatically see color blindness as racist. I DO see the use of color blindness to IGNORE systemic racism as racist. But let’s assume for a minute that you are someone who doesn’t believe in systemic racism…the view point espoused in this video Is still problematic. There are a million things that make a person unique. Their personality, their level of intelligence, their sense of humor, their history, their family, their desires, their dreams, their hair color, their eye color, their hand dominance, and yes…their skin color. The things that makes us special…as humans, and as communities, are yes our similarities…but ALSO our differences. One of the things I value about many of my friendships is that my friends can teach me things about the world that I never knew, simply because they have a different perspective. And skin color is one of the many things that informs their perspective. It is something to be valued and cherished. Not ignored like it doesn’t matter. THAT’S why I find the idea of color blindness distressing. It seeks to lump us all together into one category. When the very thing we should be celebrating as human beings, is that each one of us is a multifaceted, beautiful, fully realized, unique, individual, and we all have important things to share with one another, and learn from one another because of those differences.
This guy is the definition of systemic racism and enabling it. "Colorblindness" is racist because of systemic racism that white people created — it DOES matter, because our national history MADE it matter through systemic white supremacy. Saying you don't see color, means that you don't see the extra struggles and hurdles that non-white people go through. It ignores the problem, and this is why the problem persists for hundreds of years.
This emperor indeed believes he has new clothes.
I wouldn’t call being colorblind “racist” but it does ignore reality.
I'm half black and half Latino. When I was in kindergarten I went to a Spanish school in Columbus Ohio from then until 8th grade and I saw every race of person in one place and let me tell you, I saw everyone as if I were colorblind and still do and hope people look at me as Martin Luther King asked: judge me by the content of my character. Not the color of my skin. What does your character say about you?
rATiO* cArTI beTter ++
Im disabled. If you refuse to see my disability, you wont install elevators in buildings I need to access, nor will you help me up the stairs. Thats ableist. People of color arent disabled, but they are at a disadvantageous position in society, that needs to be corrected. Claiming to be colorblind and refusing to see that white privilege is a thing, is infact either racist or ignorant.
Love your vids, but alas, alackaday, the foisted censorship of the shitheads in power like Susan Wojicki and her commie bitch clique now running Youtube hath repeatedly unsubbed me from channels like yours, to the point it's hard to even notice because no notification of the unsubscription is ever given. Happily resubbed, just now…
Until we embrace ethnic diversities, stop using black, white, red, or yellow to define people, get rid of the word race and replace it with ethnicity, and teach against Stereotypes racism will not die. Restitution is necessary for ethnic harmony. The will need to be very in synced with one another to achieve this because the elderly are too set in their ways. Colorblind is, in many ways, dismissive to the heart of the problem. No disrespect to Denis Prager.
When the US government is leftist!
Many things make up people's identity…
*Their age, gender, name, physical appearance, etc
*Their professional lives like academic accomplishments, career, their income etc
*Their family background, home culture, race, religion, ethnicity, language, food, music
*Their social lives and their romantic lives
So if we are blind to color, we are blind to one part of their identity
It's important to recognize and be friends with everyone but at the same time be open to their color which represents their social lives and everything
So yah, that's why I think being colorblind is wrong
Jesus was brown
if you mean not seeing race colors no I think we should not be colorblind
raes are important
wether they start shit or no the major thing why racism still a thing is because people non stop talking about it cough cough blm antifa cough cough
Alot of people in these comments are over analyzing and totally missing the point of this video.😑 Great video in my humble opinion.🙂
In other words, if you don't hate white people, you a raciss!
Hammer hitting the nail . 👍🇺🇸🦅
4:39 im losing braincells listening to this