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Why Is TED Scared of Color Blindness?
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Quick takeaways
- The speaker faced backlash from TED and a group called Black at TED for defending colorblindness as an approach to treat people without regard to race in their TED Talk.
- TED potentially suppressed and showed bias towards the speaker's TED Talk release, leading to significantly lower views and lack of promotion compared to other talks released in the same period, raising concerns about TED's commitment to its mission.
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Full account of TED Talk
In this podcast episode, the speaker gives a detailed account of what happened with their TED Talk. They defended colorblindness as the approach to treat people without regard to race, both personally and in public policy. Despite a positive reaction from the audience and initial clearance from TED's curation team, the speaker received backlash from a group called Black at TED. The head of TED asked for a private conversation, but it never happened. During the TED conference town hall, two commentators criticized the talk. Later, TED proposed releasing the talk along with a moderated conversation as a single video, but the speaker objected, wanting their talk to be released normally. After negotiation, the talk was released, but with significantly lower views compared to other TED Talk releases in the same period, and no promotion on the TED Talks Daily podcast.
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