I'm colourblind so I'd posit that the people who banned the term brown-bag are ableist.

> i'm colourblind so I'd posit that the people who banned the term brown-bag are ableist

Upvoted on the optimistic assumption that this was a joke

Of course it is! :)

in a thread like this Poe's law reigns

I'm no graphic designer or artist, they look brown to me. They still sell them at Walmart: https://www.walmart.com/ip/Great-Value-Self-Standing-Lunch-B...

I could be wrong, but I think the parent comment is just a reference to the fact that brown doesn't exist. There's no wavelength that our brains map to brown. Instead what we perceive as brown is just orange, but less bright. And wether we see it as brown or dark orange depends entirely on context.

Colors isn’t the same as wavelengths, though. Two different colors having the same wavelength isn’t a contradiction. Similarly, different wavelength mixes can constitute the same color, because the human eye only has three color receptors.

This seems like a needless distinction though.

If people refer to a certain segment/shade of orange as brown in both normal discussions, art, interior design, etc., then it's brown.

It's an interesting tidbit of knowledge, but it's a useless correction and needless distinction.

Ah, well I learned something new today

See this[0] for a longer explanation.

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wh4aWZRtTwU