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| rant on the term "people of color" |
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| ultimamax:
--- Quote from: SeventhSandwich on September 13, 2017, 12:09:36 AM ---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. --- End quote --- I think saying "police brutality disproportionately harms POC" is not necessarily a semantically incorrect statement (even if we're of the belief that, say, Asian people probably don't experience a disproportionate amount of police brutality) just because it doesn't apply to the entire umbrella of "POC" Is that the kind of statement you're talking about? |
| Nonnel:
--- Quote from: ultimamax on September 12, 2017, 05:48:45 PM ---Those words aren't fitting though. There are countries like South Africa where white people are statistically a minority but still hold lots of the structural power. --- End quote --- Fair enough, but then it seems like neither word is really a catch-all when they're trying to grasp the same concept. Let's make a new word! |
| LeisureSuit912:
--- Quote from: otto-san on September 12, 2017, 11:38:21 PM ---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 --- End quote --- "White genocide" is white dullards angry that women are having love with black men instead of them |
| Red Spy:
--- Quote from: LeisureSuit912 on September 13, 2017, 01:22:52 AM ---"White genocide" is white dullards angry that women are having love with black men instead of them --- End quote --- woah dude i had no idea thanks for telling us |
| Nonnel:
that's.. actually accurate |
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