Destiny just became a white advocate (not memeing, watch the video):
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Colorblindness would have been fine if the system had been colorblind. But the system was never colorblind and never ever tried to be. Affirmative action for non-whites isn't colorblind. The media freakouts whenever an unarmed black guy gets killed by cops (or overdoeses) isn't colorblind. The college admission rates aren't colorblind.
If these things WERE colorblind, we would not be in this mess.
If welware programs helped white trailer trash as much as they helped inner city blacks, we would not be in this mess.
The problem with colorblindness is not that it was a bad idea, it was that it was never, ever part of the system and only existed on the social level.
People will instinctually pick people who remind them of themselves. That's the very basis of tribalism on a biological level. Colorblindness was always a bad idea because we will never bridge that gap that racial diversity puts between us.
The only solution is an external enemy that is more different, which only works with things like constant warfare and demonetization of one specific group for the betterment of the rest. 9/11 was a good example of that in action for a brief time.
One of the failures of nearly every "progressive" idea is the denial of human nature, or the idea that we can suppress/overcome it. Colorblindness is another of those failures.