Earlier this year, Coleman Hughes was invited to give a TED Talk on colorblindness. TED offers a virtually unrivaled platform that allows thinkers to get their ideas out into the world, and Coleman had every reason to expect they would treat him as they do every other speaker. But after he delivered the talk, a small group of TED employees took umbrage and tried to suppress the video of the event. In this clip, Coleman takes John and me through his encounter with censorship at TED.
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I'm not afraid of delusional and spoiled Coleman Hughes. I didn't have the opportunity of being born with a silver spoon in my mouth and a mixed protective upper-class neighborhood.
Colorblindness belongs in the “ideas” category, not “contraversal ideas” category. I am connecting the dots backwards from Coleman Hughes and I reach the Google HR scandal a few years back, where a liberal employee’s normal sentences were allegedly “sexist”, but actually were not. My personal goal is to make 2024 “The Year of HR” in terms of reckoning and reform. Coleman Hughes - keep doing what you are doing. You may become president some day.