rant on the term "people of color"

[Foxscotch]

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

same, hate that stuff

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[Khaz]

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

[Red Spy]

you likely aren't one of the people who'd be convinced by the rhetoric anyway.

so he's like a normal person then

[ultimamax]

so he's like a normal person then

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

[SeventhSandwich]

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

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.

[ultimamax]

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.

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]

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.

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]

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

"White genocide" is white dullards angry that women are having love with black men instead of them

[Red Spy]

"White genocide" is white dullards angry that women are having love with black men instead of them

woah dude i had no idea thanks for telling us

[Nonnel]

that's.. actually accurate

[crazies alt]

person of color
because white isnt a color??? wtf now i feel un special because everyone else can have a color but me

[Khaz]

white is by definition the absence of color

unless we're talking about RGB white :o

[Nonnel]

white is by definition the absence of color

unless we're talking about RGB white :o

black is the absence of color, white is all colors when it comes to light. in the case of pigments, it's the opposite.

[Maxwell.]

white is by definition the absence of color

well the colour spectrum is all colours and it makes white

so being white makes you gay i guess

[Shift Kitty]

1. how many ppl who use the term poc do you think know cruz is anything other than canadian, wealthy, and republican

he's the zodiac killer