The Hats of Goralbrax (Part II)

Last time, we saw the following words in a scrawling hand: ​

"​Such was the state of affairs when last I left Goralbrax. It has been six years since I have seen or heard news of them, but so much has changed that I suspect that the time dilation effects of relativistic travel means that more time has passed on Goralbrax. Two weeks ago, I made a return visit, and have the following observations to report..."

​The group known as HAT has achieved massive, nearly universal support from virtually all corners of Goralbrax. Nevertheless, despite their best efforts, interest in tarandalation is stronger among magenta Goralbraxians. For a time, HAT encouraged young Goralbraxian students to wear what their parents called 'the wrong hats' -- which is to say, the Magentas were taught that they should wear hats which had been traditionally reserved for the fuchsias and vice versa. A common belief was that hue was only a surface feature, and was really something that was learned and acted out rather than something innate. HAT wanted to show this.  So they encouraged everyone to stop wearing the headwear typically reserved for their hue, and to instead wear what they called, "whatever feels the most comfortable to you."

Strangely, after a few years of this, a spate of young Goralbraxians decided that they really were a different hue. 

Then came the fryers. The fryers wanted the telemagentas to be indistinguishable from ordinary magentas, and telefuchsias to be indistinguishable from ordinary fuchsias. They were called fryers because they achieved the hue change by scorching every bit of the skin of the Goralbraxians, and after the scars healed, their hue seemed indeed to have changed. Eventually, the fryers got to be so clever at what they were doing that most Goralbraxians couldn't distinguish a telemagenta from a Goralbraxian who was born magenta, or a telefuchsia from someone born a fuchsia. 

They began to wonder: What work was being done by the prefix "tele-" in "telemagenta" or "telefuchsia" anyway? Was it not simply contributing to more intolerance among the hues? And thus, really, wasn't this was part of the problem?

A small but vocal group calling themselves "Another Hue Equity Association Development (AHEAD) built a commune on a small island. In this commune, AHEAD has put many policies into practice, and is continuing to implement new practices in the interest of advancing hue equity. They decided that the prefix "tele-" was as much a part of the problem as anything. So in their commune, no one was to acknowledge the existence of any hue whatsoever. 

At the same time, and quite all of a sudden, a number of Fuchsias were claiming to be Magentas, and vice versa. 

But consider the problem: In order to be Fuchsia, there must be something-that-it-is-like-to-be-fuchsia. There must actually be Fuchsianess. And there must actually be Magentaness.