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Do you consider yourself “color blind” when it comes to race?

Do you consider yourself “color blind” when it comes to race?

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When I’m hiring or promoting someone I consider their skills, capabilities and suitability for the position. “Fit” is always a consideration as well, but it’s never been about race. I’ve promoted black guys over white guys who had been at the job longer because they were the best choice for the job.
 
X Factor said:
That’s fair, Fled. Part of the reason I started this poll, though, is to ascertain whether the notion of being color blind is even considered a good thing.
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Can't vote because I'm on Tapatalk. I'm going to say yes, but that is due to how I tend to apply the term. I am in terms of looking at a person and deciding how to treat them. Others might use color blind differently or in different situations. I doubt that anyone can say absolutely it never influences them.

I will say that culture is a factor for me, which some people will equate to race/color. If I see a person who is polite, not out there dissing people, and generally nice, I judge them as such regardless of color. When they are being all "gangsta" and rude, I'll admit there is a lot of prejudging on my part, but again regardless of color. I am as biased against "white trailer trash" as I am "getto trash".

That said, I have a particular attraction to Asian women, particularly Japanese, as far as the asthetics (sp?) that turn me on. Ultimately for the long term relationship, personality will win out, but race/color does sometimes play into my attraction. I can't think of any race where I have found several people attractive, but one does stand out to me. So in that sense, I am probably not completely color blind.

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No one that i know of is completely oblivious to race. However, I'm not a tiki torch bearing orange supremacist asshole.
 
People are not "color blind" to their own race, nor their sex, nor their ethnicity, nor their religion, nor their economic status, nor what they look like etc. It would be foolish to try to pretend none of that existed.

This is particularly true since the Democratic Party endlessly - from the origins of the Democratic Party thru today - 24/7 demands, rants and explains how everyone should be evaluated, treated and judged upon their race, ethnicity, religion, age, economic status, sex and appearance.
 
Helix said:
No one that i know of is completely oblivious to race. However, I'm not a tiki torch bearing orange supremacist asshole.
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No, you’re just an ordinary asshole like the rest of us.
 
americanwoman said:
I'm not 'color blind' but 'prejudice blind'.

You can't help but notice someone's color or ethnicity but you can see them as a person and not their color or ethnicity.
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^ This. Pretty much how I endeavor to operate.
 
X Factor said:
Yes? No? I don’t know? Other? Those’ll be the options. Attaching poll.
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No, I don't think I'm "colorblind". I clearly notice race, and how it affects some situations. But Im never, ever going to personally look down on, or treat someone differently because of their race. No way, José.

Oh, and welcome back. :)
 
TheGoverness said:
No, I don't think I'm "colorblind". I clearly notice race, and how it affects some situations. But Im never, ever going to personally look down on, or treat someone differently because of their race. No way, José.

Oh, and welcome back. :)
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Thank you, Gov. How’s school?
 
Lursa said:
I voted Other because IMO, in today's environment, it's impossible not to 'notice' race because it's called out constantly.

It is my goal and hope that my actions never indicate any bias at all, as I feel none.

Yet when I write even that, I wonder...since I support many policies that may recognize that other races and ethnicities are not treated equally...does that mean I do have a bias? I guess it also indicates that I do "see color" if I see a need for there to be legal 'leveling of the playing field' and etc for others. Example: civil rights integration
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Anyone who doesn't notice someone's race, is a goddamn liar.
 
Being color blind can get a person assaulted or murdered because other people are not color blind. Denial of reality for fantasyland PCism can get a person badly hurt - despite the leftwing's claim that only white people can be racists.
 
I recall some years ago an old white couple in a car with out-of-state plates had pulled into a convenience store on the East side of Chicago with the required bars on the windows and doors and typical group of black men just hanging around outside - they stopping apparently to look at a map or figure out where they are. A group of black men hanging around outside started walking towards the car. Seeing this, I shouted at the old white people "Go! Get the hell out of here! GO NOW! GO! GO! GO!"

This was NOT an occasion to be "color blind." Those men weren't. That old white couple would have made particularly easy victims - that at least a couple of those men would particularly enjoy victimizing because they were white.
 
The contradictions are endless. On the one hand everyone should be color blind, but on the other hand everyone should respect other races - while not seeing the race - and not engage in "cultural appropriation" - while blind to culture.

In nearly ANY discussion with PC SJW liberals, quickly it is necessary to insist they pick one of two exactly opposite claims they are making at the same time.
 
From the very start of the Democratic Party - built entirely on racism and bigotry - the Democratic Party has never ended their fixation on people's race.

In fact, it isn't about race. It is about a person's culture. President Obama was NOT the country's first "black president." He is a white man whose genetic ancestry is 50% black. Otherwise, his entire cultural background is white - not black.

However, under the ancient rules of the Democratic Party (and their laws), only PURE white people can be white. Otherwise the person is not white. This was (and is) the Democratic Party's way to keep anyone but PURE white people from being part of "us" white people. Anyone with ANY non-white ancestry can't be part of the white majority according to the Democratic Party.

That power of Democrat white racists over the MSM - 100% owned and controlled by white people - is the reason for the tragedy and lie of calling Obama the first "black" president, when in fact he was the first white-black mixed race president, which would have been very positive and proof that racism is vanishing away as literally the two races together had the same president.

Instead, the MSM and Democratic Party banned recognizing 50% of Obama's ancestry under THEIR standard that only genetically pure white people are white. If a person has 1 drop of non-white blood, then that person is banned from being white and instead is the race of that non-white ancestry. That's why Democrats are fine with Elizabeth Warren saying she is Native American - at the most 1/32nd because even though she is 31/32nds white she no longer is allowed to be a white woman because her white purity has been polluted.

The Democratic Party still has the exact same opinions on race as it had in their KKK about white purity.
 
Although medically colour blind, I would not say that I am "racially colour blind". I do see race because I live in reality and I do see cultural differences. However, I am an individualist and thus see no reason to make physical attributes the centre of my philosophy. I despise all forms of Identity Politics and do not take kindly of Collectivist ideas.

In the words of Ayn Rand; "Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism. It is the notion of ascribing moral, social or political significance to a man’s genetic lineage—the notion that a man’s intellectual and characterological traits are produced and transmitted by his internal body chemistry. Which means, in practice, that a man is to be judged, not by his own character and actions, but by the characters and actions of a collective of ancestors."
 
joko104 said:
I recall some years ago an old white couple in a car with out-of-state plates had pulled into a convenience store on the East side of Chicago with the required bars on the windows and doors and typical group of black men just hanging around outside - they stopping apparently to look at a map or figure out where they are. A group of black men hanging around outside started walking towards the car. Seeing this, I shouted at the old white people "Go! Get the hell out of here! GO NOW! GO! GO! GO!"

This was NOT an occasion to be "color blind." Those men weren't. That old white couple would have made particularly easy victims - that at least a couple of those men would particularly enjoy victimizing because they were white.
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Should they have reacted differently if it was a group of white guys?

Hell no.
 
I wish I were but I'm not.
 
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