bees
Explanation
The Joke
The comic is structured in reverse chronological order. In the top panel, a therapist asks a patient "Then what do you see?" and the patient responds: "Bees. Bees arranged in human form, thinking they're fooling me." The patient declares: "I see the truth. Bees. The truth." The bottom panel, labeled "Earlier," shows the same patient in what appears to be a job interview or similar setting, proudly stating: "When I look at people, I don't see race."
The Humor
The joke subverts the common virtue-signaling phrase "I don't see race" by taking it to an absurd, literal extreme. The person who claims to be "colorblind" when it comes to race turns out to not actually see people as people at all — instead, they see swarms of bees arranged in humanoid shapes. The comic mocks the phrase by suggesting that someone who claims not to see an obvious and significant aspect of human identity might have a much deeper perceptual problem than they realize. It also plays on the common comedic trope of "not what you expected" — we expect a heartwarming or politically correct explanation, and instead get paranoid delusion.