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Zuzi Lopez del Castillo Cardet Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

is this correct?

Is this sentence correct?: Therefore, I believe that racism does not have anything to with color blindness.

help me with the grammar! I am trying to say that racism is an state of mind, it does not have anything to do with being blind or not. thanks
  

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It seems that you mean: Therefore, I believe that racism does not have anything to do with color blindness. e. not discriminating on the basis of race).

  • It seems that you mean: Therefore, I believe that racism does not have anything to do with color blindness.
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  • not discriminating on the basis of race).
  • In a sense, racism is the opposite of colour blindness.
  • It doesn't make obvious sense to say that one has nothing to do with the other.
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It seems that you mean:

Therefore, I believe that racism does not have anything to do with color blindness.

In this context, "color blindness" will be understood to mean indifference to the colour of a person's skin (i.e. not discriminating on the basis of race). In a sense, racism is the opposite of colour blindness. It doesn't make obvious sense to say that
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GPY has made the correction. However I doubt that anyone would ever consider racism to have anything to do with colour blindness (which is the inability to distinguish, visually, one colour from another or to see a particular colour). Why not just say racism is a state of mind? Influenced, rightly or wrongly, by many things.
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Robinjw13However I doubt that anyone would ever consider racism to have anything to do with colour blindness
The two /tinymce347/two%20ideas are compared quite often.

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Ok I stand corrected, ignore my reply Zuzi. Thanks A.S.
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Color blindness can refer to a physical condition. This would not have any thing to do with racism.
But color blindness can also refer to a broad state of mind that does not see people according to their skin color.
Whereas racism is a narrow state of mind that sees people preeminently on the basis of their skin color and judges them accordingly either favorably or unfavorably. This is d

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