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submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/19504984

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Color is a social construct

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Well, the names for different parts of the color spectrum are, I suppose. Wavelength of EM radiation, and how your brain interprets it as color, is 'real'.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think they were alluding to a different use of the word color.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What use? The only thing I can think of is 'colourful' language, which doesn't seem to really make sense in this context.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

"People of color."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

This technically goes down a very interesting line of thought that Vsauce covered once.