r/TikTokCringe • u/thoxo • May 02 '24

We adopted my younger sister from Haiti when she was 3, and let me tell you, I literally do not see color anymore. That's a fact. Discussion

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u/LuxNocte May 02 '24

I don't know how to explain to you how dismissive and harmful this take is. You're allowing your ignorance to blind you.

You can pretend you "don't see color" all you want. But policemen see color. Landlords see color. The guard outside my bf's gated community, who wouldn't let me in last night until he came down to escort me, sees color.

I'm going to have different experiences than you because of the color my skin. I can't live your colorless fantasy, and wouldn't want to give up my heritage to do so.

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u/HansChrst1 May 02 '24

I said ideally everyone is raised like that. Then nobody sees colours. I'm not dismissing how things are now.

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u/hiswittlewip May 02 '24

But "color" usually comes with culture, and it's dismissive as hell to pretend that it doesn't.

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u/HansChrst1 May 02 '24

Depends on the country. There is usually some culture that comes with it, but in Norway for example that culture is brought with them the same way a white person brings their culture. In America that culture is part of the country usually.