color blind

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color blind (comparative more color blind, superlative most color blind)

  1. (of a person or animal) Unable to distinguish between two or more primary colors (usually red and green).
  2. (of a person or process, figurative) Holding no prejudice based on skin color or race; not paying attention to skin color.
    • 2012, Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow, →ISBN, page 183:
      Because mass incarceration is officially colorblind, it seems inconceivable that the system could function much like a racial caste system.
    • 2021 September 16, Bill Maher, 7:52 from the start, in Bill Maher on Getting Anger from Both Sides, Our Divided Country & Norm Macdonald’s Passing[1], Jimmy Kimmel Live!:
      MAHER: Well, whatever. I just said we shouldn't have two national anthems. We're one country. It's not a good idea. We've seen what happens in other countries where you have, you know- when you separate things out. That's never where America was. That's never where liberalism was. It was about being a colorblind society. []
    • 2022 October 23, Michael H. Keller, David D. Kirkpatrick, “Their America Is Vanishing. Like Trump, They Insist They Were Cheated.”, in The New York Times[2], →ISSN:
      Don Demel [] said his parents had raised him “colorblind.” But the reason for the discontent was clear: Other white people in Fort Bend “did not like certain people coming here,” he said. “It’s race. They are old-school.”

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