• Midnight Wolf@lemmy.world
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          22 hours ago

          I’ve always thought either were silly - it implies that ‘white’ isn’t a color. Even if you say ‘white is the absence of color’ that itself is a color.

          ‘hey Bill, what did you paint your fence as’ ‘I painted it not a color’ ‘ah, quite basic, no?’

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            15 hours ago

            The absence of colour is not a colour.

            That said, white people are generally actually various shades of pinky beige, black people are generally various shades of brown, but our language uses colour-based terminology to refer to ethnicity anyway.

            Complaining that white is a colour, so whites should be included as coloured people, is kind of silly in that context.

            Especially if you remember that the term “coloured people” originated as a way to stop people who had black and white heritage from getting any of the benefits of their whiteness.

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              14 hours ago

              It’s not ‘I want to be included too’ but like, the entire thing is silly. We are all some shade of a color. To single out a group and call them ‘colored’ when we literally all are is just, wat.

              I mean it’s not like the people who were at the helm of racism were particularly intelligent, but like come on. It’s almost comical how smooth-brained they were (are). If I pulled out a pack of crayons and pointed to the white one, their worldview may implode.

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                13 hours ago

                I definitely agree that the whole racism thing is absolutely stupid. A whole kingdom of cruelties based on nothing important.