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rant on the term "people of color"
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Foxscotch:

--- 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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same, hate that stuff
Khaz:

--- Quote from: beachbum111111 on September 12, 2017, 11:46:00 PM ---The pot smoking degenerate parasite? Good to know what you consider 'cool'.

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Red Spy:

--- Quote from: ultimamax on September 12, 2017, 11:27:37 PM ---you likely aren't one of the people who'd be convinced by the rhetoric anyway.

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so he's like a normal person then
ultimamax:

--- Quote from: Red Spy on September 12, 2017, 11:52:03 PM ---so he's like a normal person then

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I was talking about the hypothetical "you", not ottosparks. "One" would have been a better term probably.
SeventhSandwich:

--- Quote from: ultimamax on September 12, 2017, 10:06:30 PM ---yeah but if you believe in structural white supremacy then anyone who's not white is clearly affected by it, even if its to different degrees/in different ways. and it turns out most of the people saying "people of color" believe in structural white supremacy

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Sure, but my beef is that many of the young activists I know use it as a term virtually synonymous with 'black person', which means that they end up ascribing forms of discrimination to POC which really only happen to say, blacks or latinos.
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