Colorblindness Increases Visible Disparities

If institutions truly stop using race (no DEI, no disparate‑impact rules), selection effects will likely enlarge measured group gaps in admissions, testing, hiring, and discipline. Without a publicly accepted hereditarian account, those gaps will spur demands to re‑impose equity policies, recreating the conditions for 'woke' norms. The argument says durable reform needs a plan for explaining persistent disparities, not only new rules. — It forces policymakers and anti‑DEI reformers to confront how their frameworks will handle persistent outcome gaps without relapsing into equity mandates.