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.
This is so strange. It was a great talk. I still find myself uncomfortable with discussions of ‘colorblindness’, I worry that it risks furthering subtle forms of racism, but Coleman’s TED talk is the best thing I’ve heard on the subject and offers me significant reassurance that it’s okay to be ‘colorblind’. Thanks so much for sharing this clip. It motivated me to become a subscriber.
Normally, one might put pressure on an institution that has behaved unfairly - think corporate boycotts, etc. Interestingly, however, TED TALKS is owned by the TED Foundation, a 501(c)3 charitable entity, which makes it tougher to target unfair behavior because they have no public product or service, and are not subject to the level of scrutiny to which American for-profit businesses are. The Clintons and others figured this out a long time ago. However, their officers, directors and donors are all disclosed in their most recent 990, available here: https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/821934592/202242949349100909/full . Perhaps Glenn, John and Coleman, as well as some of my fellow readers, know some of these people (mostly in the NYC area, it seems) and can ask them how they feel about this incident.
Everything Ted produces must fit the narrow NPC talking points or support a limit world view - or it’s not on the stage. I don’t expect ANYTHING objective from Ted, ever.
I listened to Coleman's podcast about the TEDtalk...What TED talk did was bizarre! I suppose TED talk has a right to do what it wants, but clearly it is not interested in either presenting unusual unpopular opinions about important things, nor in allowing such ideas to be presented in a free manner. I am glad that Coleman stuck to his guns, but man...what a PIA for him!
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.
This is so strange. It was a great talk. I still find myself uncomfortable with discussions of ‘colorblindness’, I worry that it risks furthering subtle forms of racism, but Coleman’s TED talk is the best thing I’ve heard on the subject and offers me significant reassurance that it’s okay to be ‘colorblind’. Thanks so much for sharing this clip. It motivated me to become a subscriber.
Jesse Singal has just sent out an article regarding Adam Grant, the social scientist who questioned the issue of race blindness as used by C. Hughes.
https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/is-there-an-extensive-body-of-rigorous
Normally, one might put pressure on an institution that has behaved unfairly - think corporate boycotts, etc. Interestingly, however, TED TALKS is owned by the TED Foundation, a 501(c)3 charitable entity, which makes it tougher to target unfair behavior because they have no public product or service, and are not subject to the level of scrutiny to which American for-profit businesses are. The Clintons and others figured this out a long time ago. However, their officers, directors and donors are all disclosed in their most recent 990, available here: https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/821934592/202242949349100909/full . Perhaps Glenn, John and Coleman, as well as some of my fellow readers, know some of these people (mostly in the NYC area, it seems) and can ask them how they feel about this incident.
We all know why.
Everything Ted produces must fit the narrow NPC talking points or support a limit world view - or it’s not on the stage. I don’t expect ANYTHING objective from Ted, ever.
I listened to Coleman's podcast about the TEDtalk...What TED talk did was bizarre! I suppose TED talk has a right to do what it wants, but clearly it is not interested in either presenting unusual unpopular opinions about important things, nor in allowing such ideas to be presented in a free manner. I am glad that Coleman stuck to his guns, but man...what a PIA for him!