color blindness
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- /ˈkʌlər ˈblaɪndnəs/
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ceguera ante el color
- So, you know, the reason I wrote this book is that this idea of color blindness, which means you try to treat people without regard to race.
So, you know, the reason I wrote this book is that this idea of color blindness, which means you try to treat people without regard to race.
- So, you know, the reason I wrote this book is that this idea of color blindness, which means you try to treat people without regard to race.
- So in my book, I try to rescue color blindness from this PR campaign against it.
- People now reject the idea that color blindness is even possible, where you obviously don't agree with that.
Examples
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The concept of color blindness is often seen as an oversimplification of complex social issues surrounding race.
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I suspect that’s due more to the high frequency of color blindness among men, rather than this effect, which is apparently quite subtle.
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So in my book, I try to rescue color blindness from this PR campaign against it.
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People now reject the idea that color blindness is even possible, where you obviously don't agree with that.
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Most notably, this perfectly encapsulates the "the past is the past" color-blindness discourse mentioned in Bonilla-Silva's Chapter 4 (p. 77).
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We no longer sit in the back of the bus, but we have to endure things like white people trying to tell us what is racist and what is not, attempts to convince us that racism is dead—even though we know it most certainly is not—and efforts to encourage "color blindness," in other words, let's pretend everyone is white.
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In discussions about systemic inequality, some people advocate for color blindness, believing it will help create a more equal society.
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Critics argue that color blindness can sometimes ignore the real experiences of racial minorities and fail to address ongoing discrimination.
Synonyms
Treating people or things the same without noticing their differences
How Race-Conscious
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound uses a straightforward metaphor: combining 'color' with 'blindness' signals being 'blind to color' — i.e., ignoring racial differences — so a learner who knows both words could plausibly infer a meaning like 'not seeing or considering race'. However, the phrase extends beyond the literal medical sense into a sociopolitical concept with critical nuance (masking systemic inequality), so the precise ideological sense and its evaluative implications are not fully predictable without prior exposure.
Etymology
Color blindness is a metaphor that uses the words color and blindness to picture not noticing people's race. So color blindness here means the idea or policy of 'treating everyone the same' by 'ignoring race'.