S3 E34: Coleman Hughes with Jordan and Mikhaila Peterson
Coleman Hughes and Jordan and Mikhaila Peterson discuss some of the global issues caused by polarizing opinions in race, politics, and western culture. Find Coleman Hughes on his podcast Conversations with Coleman, on Twitter @coldxman, and at his website https://www.colemanhughes.org This episode is sponsored by Helix Mattresses. For up to $200 off,
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Aleksandar wrote: "I was quite disappointed that not once in that podcast, no one actually explained/expressed the underlying principals behind "colorblindness" as a valid idea i.e. individualism.I don't see how som..."
I'm not sure we want to be "colour-blind" though. It implies erasing someone's ethnicity and culture and just not "seeing" it. From what I see, that's not what Black people or Indigenous peoples want. I know this is definitely the case for First Nations peoples, they want to be seen for WHO they are, as distinct people who have something different to offer. Being "colour-blind" feels a bit too much like "assimilation." Like they have to "become" Europeanised. Which is what they have been resisting for over a century and a half already. They don't WANT to be like the rest of the world. I think individualism, seeing each new person as different, and judging him or her on his/her own values, is enough, as Martin Luther King said: judging a person, "not by the colour of their skin, but by the content of their character." I don't think we have to add "colour-blindness" to that. I don't think it is either necessary nor really desirable. I get the desire behind it, to NOT be racist though. But I think we need to look at it a different way.
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I don't see how someone who wants to spread this "colorblindness" idea, doesn't start from the most fundamental (in that without establishing, there is no way to argue against collectivism) principal of individualism, make it easily understandable and contrasting it to collectivism, and its horrific outcomes.