insensible

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I would just add one corrective, it wasn't just enslaved Black women, it was that all Black people were insensible to pain.

From Salon

Yes, it’s fairly sentimental insofar as it dwells on how feelings color the world, but it’s not insensible to the gaps that feelings alone can’t fill.

From Washington Post

But while she might detect the mote in others’ eyes, she is insensible to the beam in her own.

From Los Angeles Times

There, Brown was carried on a wagon to the train depot and the box was thrown onto the ground, audibly cracking Brown’s neck and knocking him “insensible,” he wrote.

From Washington Post

As the air thins, though, and the chill intensifies, he slumps to the floor of the basket, insensible, leaving Miss Wren, flying solo, to save the day.

From The New Yorker