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Old 08-01-2013, 11:34 PM
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I'm not a fan of the "why can't we all be color-blind?" approach. I think it encourages us to accept a false uniformity by asking us to ignore the things about "them" that (1) make "them" who they are, and (2) make them different from "us." At best, it is disrespectful; at worst, it carries an expectation that everything would be okay if everyone could just be like "us." (As in, perhaps, suggesting that it's somehow wrong that the NPHC don't act like "the rest of us.")
You said this flawlessly. I'm probably going to quote this elsewhere at some point, if you don't mind.
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