colorblindness

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1. A defect in perception of colors, caused by a deficiency of certain specialized cells in the retina that are sensitive to different colors. The condition may be partial (as in “red-green colorblindness,” in which a person cannot distinguish red from green), or complete (in which the person sees all colors as gray).

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By extension, the law is said to be colorblind in its judgments, which are supposed to ignore a defendant's race.

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In the name of colorblindness, Callais made three huge legal changes.

From Slate ● Jul. 8, 2026

Would colorblindness in this setting, a setting presumably most favorable for just outcomes, be fair?

From Slate ● May 22, 2026

People with normal vision correctly identified the samples 99% of the time, while participants with colorblindness were correct only 70% of the time.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 10, 2026

Many people with colorblindness never receive a formal diagnosis, which means they would be classified as having normal vision in the database.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 10, 2026

Forms of race discrimination that were open and notorious for centuries were transformed in the 1960s and 1970s into something un-American—an affront to our newly conceived ethic of colorblindness.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

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