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- adjective Alternative spelling of
colorblind .
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Examples
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There are many people who are what are called colourblind, being unable to distinguish one colour from another.
Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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By the same token, his latest commentary about segregated schoolbuses, on one reading, is just a call for a "colourblind" America in an era of racial polarization that he blames Obama for perpetuating.
Archive 2009-09-01 2009
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Racism 2.0 is perfectly willing to be "colourblind" as long as a person is *culturally white*, so to speak.
Racism 2.0 Anxious Black Woman 2008
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I wonder if people who are colourblind can see that line.
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - The mighty line of white 2008
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Aeton – “I wonder if people who are colourblind can see that line.”
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - The mighty line of white 2008
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I'm being rather colourblind in that respect, I must admit.
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Yes, I know she means well, but her cluelessness and her insistence on a “colourblind” world just made her seem rather naïve.
Triple Snapshots of Feb '10 - Children of the Waters, The Housekeeper and the Professor, and Eon Ah Yuan // wingstodust 2010
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Yes, I know she means well, but her cluelessness and her insistence on a “colourblind” world just made her seem rather naïve.
Archive 2010-02-01 Ah Yuan // wingstodust 2010
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I'm not sure why being a multi-cultural state or having an amorphous identity should help make us colourblind - and since one in five of the working class admit they are not, I'm not sure it does.
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009
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The most common colours that still have contrast for the colourblind (out of the wide range of variants) are a sort of beige-orange-yellow colour (like early sunset or corn) and a moderately deep blue (like a summer sky).
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