Posted: Nov 12, 2017 11:33 pm
Keep It Real wrote:Spinozasgalt wrote:Keep It Real wrote:VazScep wrote:There's a standard bunch of arguments against the well-intentioned idea of colour-blindness, notably (for me) the one that says that colourblind cops are blind to departmental racism.
Hmmmmmmmmmm...TBH Vaz I don't see why a colourblind cop would also be blind to other people's racism - In fact I think they'd be all the more likely to spot it and call the racism out because it would seem so weird/foreign/wrong.
Buried not at all deep in here (look, I can see it right there at the end!) is the assumption that racism is experienced as something weird/foreign/wrong and thus as something especially visible. Why think that? You have testimony not just from the black women who attend this festival (heck, it's part of what the festival's about), and even here from SOS who is not (as far as I gathered) a person of colour, that it isn't typically experienced in this way. On the contrary, SOS even went at length to you about how hard he had to train himself and reflect on it to be able to see any of it.
But those people aren't colourblind.
Mmm'hmm, so you're sticking with this view that this ideal colourblind person will be able to just see all these forms of racism because of how they appear as something weird/foreign/wrong. So again, why think that? Why think that these problems that are difficult even for people who are racially cognizant will become hyper-visible for some ideal agent who doesn't see race and isn't thinking about it?