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In a discussion where everyone is universally panning the "I don't see color" claptrap some white people seem to think merits praise, it takes a special kind of willfulness to full throatedly say, "No, I genuinely don't notice."

Unless you lack the physical ability to see, please just don't.
03:14 AM - Mar 03, 2024
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Well, we don't believe you, you need more people
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AprilG Xn+2 = Xn+1 + Xn
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It's such a genuinely racist thing to say that any WP saying it better back up and examine their beliefs ASAP.
06:40 PM - Mar 03, 2024
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Dr.XVI is the Wrong Crowd
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In the 80s and 90s that’s what was taught. Michael Jordon never mentioned race as to not hurt sneaker sakes. Tiger Woods called himself Cablinasian as to appear universal and not Black. We were taught about melting pots and we were all American. It was trying to erase the original sin.
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My Flying Car 2020
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Yes, I remember this clearly.

The people who taught kids to say they shouldn't see color in the 80s & 90s were using racial slurs and protesting school bussing 10-15 years earlier - surely they should understand Things Change.

So I think they can be taught and CHANGE AGAIN. If they're open.
08:29 PM - Mar 03, 2024
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Unapologetically Beth
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"I don't see your otherness" is othering.

It's also basically saying I don't see your uniqueness. What makes you "you."

It's a meaningless rhetorical device that is dismissive.

But that's my white woman's thoughts. Still listening and learning.
11:06 AM - Mar 03, 2024
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💜 Callie 💜
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To be 💯, the fact that they believe, call or refer to themselves as “white” means they SEE color.

Just sayin’…
10:24 AM - Mar 03, 2024
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My Flying Car 2020
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I'm curious: if you are white, have other white people have said this to you? My theory is these people say this to clumsily virtue signal to people of color, but they have no use for the phrase around each other... the idea is, when they're saying it, all they're seeing is color.
09:55 AM - Mar 03, 2024
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Annie Bee Good
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YES! And when I explain to them that to claim not to see skin color is to deny that people have different identities, different lived experiences, different versions of America, and different choices based on systemic racism, some of them deny systemic racism, too.
06:03 PM - Mar 03, 2024
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Doctor Michael
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I’ve had white people say this to me and I shake my head then offer a piece of my mind.
05:43 PM - Mar 04, 2024
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Substantion_THEE_ Igra
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This is my counter to that:
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Dréa25
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Then a neat question to ask folks such as these would be, "well what do you see?"
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PS Annie
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This is my go to question for them.
11:16 AM - Mar 03, 2024
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Reginald Capers
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Like we are supposed to believe that nonsense.
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