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

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[โ€“] [email protected] 34 points 4 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'.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 4 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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

"People of color."

[โ€“] rambling_lunatic 1 points 4 months ago

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