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rant on the term "people of color"
Krupp Lancaster:
--- Quote from: IkeTheGeneric on September 12, 2017, 10:24:06 PM ---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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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:
--- Quote from: otto-san on September 12, 2017, 10:25:20 PM ---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
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we're talking about american sociology though, not worldwide
--- Quote from: beachbum111111 on September 12, 2017, 10:29:46 PM ---I call PoC pox because they are like a disease.
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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:
--- Quote from: otto-san on September 12, 2017, 10:18:53 PM ---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
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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.
--- Quote from: IkeTheGeneric on September 12, 2017, 10:24:06 PM ---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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Do you have a negative personal history with that word?
--- Quote from: Juncoph on September 12, 2017, 10:30:34 PM ---we're talking about american sociology though, not worldwide
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Why? I've heard this term used in international and global contexts many times before.