rant on the term "people of color"

[IkeTheGeneric]

I feel with you OP, LGBT culture adopted queer as a reclaimed word but I really don't like being called a queer

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[Master Matthew²]

"minorities" is already a word

Well to be fair, that wouldn't work when they're plan is to make white people the "minority" effectively making the term obsolete.

[Insert Name Here²]

my name is Phant "the crayon sharpener" OS and i'm here to borrow your girlfriend permanently

crayons suck these are the best coloring utensils ever made

[otto-san]

"racial minorities"

well that's a word that only makes sense in the context of a society where they're actually minorities. pretty sure white people don't make up the majority of people globally, and they certainly don't make up a majority in every country

[Khaz]

"racial minorities"

that works too. or ethnic minorities. it all comes down to linguistic preference i guess. personally i can't really find a problem with the use of "poc" but that's just me. i can understand where you're coming from though but there's not much that can be done about it

[Krupp Lancaster]

I feel with you OP, LGBT culture adopted queer as a reclaimed word but I really don't like being called a queer

This. I'm white, straight, and bleed red blood but I don't like the LGBQT community because it attracts the weirdos instead of the people it was supposed to which defeats the entire purpose of its satanic cult as a whole, and people of color is no different from saying 'colored' so yeah it's a dumb term just call them darkies while you're at it since their skin hue is darker than yours

[beachbum111111]

I call PoC pox because they are like a disease.

[Juncoph]

well that's a word that only makes sense in the context of a society where they're actually minorities. pretty sure white people don't make up the majority of people globally, and they certainly don't make up a majority in every country

we're talking about american sociology though, not worldwide

I call PoC pox because they are like a disease.

like the ones honkey brought over the atlantic?

[Red Spy]

we might as well say colored person while we're at it since it means exactly the same thing

[ultimamax]

why do we love giving political concepts scary names like that. it's like the stark opposite to a glittering generality, it's so objectively emotionally unappealing that anyone who doesn't understand the term conceptually just thinks you're crazy for suggesting something so scary-sounding exists

I can't really think of a better word for it than that - "it" being a pattern of racism that puts white people into a disproportionate amount of power in a bunch of social structures. The word is technical and and inaccessible because it's describing something wispy and hard to define. I do think leftism is inaccessible in a lot of ways but making the terminology less "spooky" is a zero sum game. If the connotation of words like "white supremacy" and "racism" are enough to make you ignore the rest of the rhetoric, you likely aren't one of the people who'd be convinced by the rhetoric anyway.

I feel with you OP, LGBT culture adopted queer as a reclaimed word but I really don't like being called a queer

Do you have a negative personal history with that word?

we're talking about american sociology though, not worldwide

Why? I've heard this term used in international and global contexts many times before.

[otto-san]

I can't really think of a better word for it than that - "it" being a pattern of racism that puts white people into a disproportionate amount of power in a bunch of social structures. The word is technical and and inaccessible because it's describing something wispy and hard to define. I do think leftism is inaccessible in a lot of ways but making the terminology less "spooky" is a zero sum game. If the connotation of words like "white supremacy" and "racism" are enough to make you ignore the rest of the rhetoric, you likely aren't one of the people who'd be convinced by the rhetoric anyway.

yeah i wasn't really saying it that seriously, i just think it's funny how often it happens. there are similar things in far-right ideologies, e.g. "white genocide" and stuff like that

[IkeTheGeneric]

Do you have a negative personal history with that word?

Yeah, I grew up in a starkly homophobic area.

[beachbum111111]

Reminder that Ultimamax is a parasitic commie whos opinion counts for less then the dirt under my shoe

[Khaz]

is beachbum the beachbum/monocle dude from way back when? i hope not because that dude was cool af

[beachbum111111]

is beachbum the beachbum/monocle dude from way back when? i hope not because that dude was cool af

The pot smoking degenerate parasite? Good to know what you consider 'cool'.