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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I think we are talking past each other. Trump doesn't even try to pretend to be color-blind. People who pretend to be color-blind understand that there is a principle of color blindness that other people believe in, and are trying to internalize that principle to at least some extent. Trump does not give a sh*t about principles, color-blindness or otherwise.
I agree that he was using a defensive device. I think he was just repeating something he'd heard to duck a question.
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No argument here. I didn't bring it up to probe the depths of Trumps racism or his understanding of anything at all. I brought it up as example of how people use it to get out from under having any meaningful conversation about something they've said or believe.
To be clear, I think that
everyone who professes to be color-blind is completely full of shit. It is absolutely impossible to be color-blind in this country. Hell, even the people who argue that they are
striving for it do it to get out of confronting the actual reality of race in this country. They aren't even fooling themselves.
TM
