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Making Sense with Sam Harris · March 4, 2024 · 85m
#353 — Race & Reason
Coleman Hughes on colorblindness as a moral ideal. His book The End of Race Politics argues that treating people as individuals rather than members of racial groups is both morally superior and more practically effective than race-consciousness.
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Hughes: race-consciousness forces people into group identities that obscure individual reality. Colorblindness isn't ignoring racism — it's insisting that the true self isn't defined by racial category.
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Hughes: his position on colorblindness came from reading Martin Luther King Jr.'s actual writings — not the simplified version taught in schools. King's 'content of character' speech isn't a platitude; it's a radical philosophical position.
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