color blind

comparative more color blind · superlative most color blind · alternative colorblind · alternative color-blind · alternative colourblind · alternative colour-blind · alternative colour blind

1. Unable to distinguish between two or more primary colors (usually red and green).
2. figurativelyHolding no prejudice based on skin color or race; not paying attention to skin color.

   Because mass incarceration is officially colorblind, it seems inconceivable that the system could function much like a racial caste system.

   2012, Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow, →ISBN, page 183

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   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.[…]

   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, Jimmy Kimmel Live!

   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.”

   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, →ISSN, archived from the original on 02 Dec 2022