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Racism from a Blind Man’s Perspective Video
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MatthewA
Active Member
Amen to that! Just see people as human beings; looking past the outside; short, tall, chubby, disabled, even color. Looking into the understanding of the soul. To love is so much far greater than to judge other people, along with forgiveness when people might say bad things to us.
What a nice man... I appreciate his perspective, and I love his honesty. I love that idea with the blindfold party, too. I'd be down for something like that! 
Spirit of Light
Be who ever you want
It is so refreshing to listen to this man in the video
If we all thought like this it would be no more racism in the world
We are all human beings
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
I prefer Chappelle's version...
The man is pure genius addressing race and showing the ludicrous premise that is called supremacy.
Also will have one ROFL Their *** off!
*grin*
The man is pure genius addressing race and showing the ludicrous premise that is called supremacy.
Also will have one ROFL Their *** off!
*grin*
His idea of a party without seeing reminded me of places like this or discord or reddit. Unless someone makes their profile picture a picture of themselves we have no idea what each other look like. (Unless I click on your profile and you have it listed) I don't know who's a man or a woman, who's old or young, I don't know what race or nationality you all are. I just like that his idea is a reality, and it does kind of seem like spaces like that have so much less of that sort of judgement because it's all irrelevant to the conversations we have and the friendships we form.
epronovost
Well-Known Member
I'll be a bit of party pooper, but you could make everybody blind permanently and racism wouldn't go away or even be substantially diminished. Experiments have shown that if you remove faces, racist people will focus on names to assess who is in their in-group or out-group. They can even use addresses, accents, manner of speech to identify their vilified "other" just as much. The only difference is that sometime they get it wrong, let an "other" in and push out someone they would rather not in other circumstances, but most racist people consider this a fair trade-off to avoid cosmopolitanism. Putting a "blindfold on people" only shifts the problem to another area and, to a lesser extent, makes racism more insidious. Unfortunately there is no easy solution to racism beside time, education and repeated positive experience with the "other". Considering how our psyche is built, the best we can do is reduce its prevalence and, especially, its influence and power on society.
Viker
Häxan
Party pooper!
Blindfold everyone, and play Debussy.
Unveiled Artist
Veteran Member
I use the default version on RF and it doesn't show religious affiliation and whose a newbie (you'd have to look up both in their profiles-too lazy). So, when I converse, I'm not treating people as if they were a kid and not judging them because they are a fundamentalist. I really don't know what they believe unless I've talked with them for awhile or they really active in the forum. Religious labels can distort a person's character. A fundamentalist baptist who actually don't believe LGBTQ are sinners by virtue of their orientation would be unknown just because the word fundamentalist was used.
I agree its about character (and I'll add behavior). I do value looks to some extent. I feel that's natural human thing to do. But if it doesn't make you form negative biases, I think that's the key not the biases themselves.
Nice video.
I agree its about character (and I'll add behavior). I do value looks to some extent. I feel that's natural human thing to do. But if it doesn't make you form negative biases, I think that's the key not the biases themselves.
Nice video.