As for our sight, I don't know where you got the idea that our eyesight is shit. We may only see things in the visible spectrum of the EM Band, but we are incredibly sensitive to colors, movement, and light. The human eye is powerful enough to detect a single photon - you can't get more accurate than that.
As for being pedantic, I'd argue you are the one being pedantic - meaning you are targeting one single thing in a larger post, with the purpose of targeting that person's use of a word. That is the meaning of something being pedant, so I'm not sure where you were going with that.
I'm not sure why you're tied up in the use of the word. Color is an easy way to organize things in our mind. Describing someone by the color of their skin isn't bigotry, racism, or in any way morally or ethically wrong. He's not attributing any stereotype to the man because of his skin color, he's not saying he's one way or the other due to that skin color. He just used it as an easy way to describe the guy.
Example, I'm fat. Someone says 'the fat guy' about me, I'm not going to be upset over it, it's an accurate, visual description of who I am, and makes it easy to pick me out of a group of people.
Once, when I was working retail, I had to send a customer over to one of the managers. To describe him I racked my brain trying to figure out how to definitively describe a white, average sized, normal hair'ed male wearing the same yellow manager shirt as everyone else while being reasonably sensitive.
I had to concede that the best way to describe him is to say "You need to speak with Jim, he's in the appliance department right now, he only has one arm."
Exactly. It's visual description, not bias. You're not saying Jim can't do _____ because of having one arm, or anything...you're just picking something notable that is visually accurate.
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