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> Create a competing superstition that says black doors are good, or make laws requiring doors to be painted black. Or, you know, that the color of the door do
by AsyncAwait 8y ago
> Create a competing superstition that says black doors are good, or make laws requiring doors to be painted black.
Or, you know, that the color of the door doesn't matter? I fail to see how that'll be a superstition.
- ralusek 8y agoIn modern political landscape, deciding that the door's color doesn't matter would be to deny its identity.
- AsyncAwait 8y ago> In modern political landscape If that's a reference to the various gender pronouns and the like, regardless of what you think about it, it mostly strives for equal rights, not more rights as far as I know, so a more apt mapping may be that the doors should be approached in the same way regardless of what particular color they are today.
- ralusek 8y agoIt's not. It's a reference to the more recent philosophies regarding race that indicate that being "colorblind," i.e. not factoring the race of an individual into your decision-making process, is actually a form of racism, because you're denying the individual's historical and lived experiences.
- travisoneill1 8y agoIt isn't. And the point of the initial comment is that it loses out to a superstition.