Why Is TED Scared of Color Blindness?
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#2Oh, lord. This for two paragraphs was an interesting article --- is there something political or controversial about deuteranopia? But, no: it's just a culture war appeal.
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#3Good to know TED, also, has taken up the mantle of culture war nonsense.
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#4I don't find the talk novel, interesting or insightful, as it's a boring claim about an obviously ideal situation would be good in an ideal world, but that doesn't make it below TED's normal standards.
The mentioned debate on the topic could be good, but I didn't see a link to it.
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#5>As soon as he heard the world “Black@TED”— the “Employee Resource Group that exists to provide a safe space for TED staff who identify as Black” Colman recognized that he was f*cked.
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#6Oh, lord. This for two paragraphs was an interesting article --- is there something political or controversial about deuteranopia? But, no: it's just a culture war appeal.
Yep. Came to say pretty much the same thing -- and to add that I find the author's misuse of a medical term like "color blindness" disingenous.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_blindness is not the same as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_color_blindness
Sigh.
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To the moderators: Please consider changing the title to "Why Is TED Scared of Racial Color Blindness?"
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#7I don't find the talk novel, interesting or insightful, as it's a boring claim about an obviously ideal situation would be good in an ideal world, but that doesn't make it below TED's normal standards. The mentioned debate on the topic could be good, but I didn't see a link to it.
A YouTube search for "a case for color blindness debate" shows this as the 2nd result: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNo8en2iJAc
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#8What seemed to be missing was a critical and self-aware statement of why his critics may be right or at least his strongest argument.
Without such honesty, any apologia is hollow.
In response to the hollowness, I did some googling on racial color blindness and I now am very convinced of its connection to white supremacy. This author had my attention for 10 minutes and was too abstract for me to really learn anything at all.
In fairness: purposeful vagueness isn't going to get me engage with your monetized content, so I didn't click on any of their videos.
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#9TED talks have platformed literal fraudsters many times. It's just rich, well connected people roleplaying some idea of a "thought leader" organization.
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#10I don't find the talk novel, interesting or insightful, as it's a boring claim about an obviously ideal situation would be good in an ideal world, but that doesn't make it below TED's normal standards. The mentioned debate on the topic could be good, but I didn't see a link to it.
A YouTube search for "a case for color blindness debate" shows this as the 2nd result: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNo8en2iJAc
I watched this debate a couple of weeks ago and Coleman won every round.
I was surprised that Jamelle Bouie agreed to debate him, since anyone who has paid any attention to Coleman Hughes knows that he is a world-class thinker and debater. Coleman is one of the sharpest public intellectuals alive.
Jamelle must have known he was going up as a sacrificial lamb, especially since Jamelle had to argue in favor of racial discrimination. I mean, sheesh.