Cool, so you aren't disagreeing. I like the term POC because it represents all the non-white groups who have been historically tread upon by the whites. A unified coalition fighting against white supremacy. I proudly count myself among them.
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I gave a reason. Another reason I like it is because it represents "everyone" to the exclusion of whites just as whites historically excluded other groups. In this sense it is anti-white-supremacy. It pushes them to the side, like payback. We can use "their language" against them.
Right it’s just that, as a white person, your “reason” for preferring to refer to non-white people as “people of color” (as if white isn’t a race/color), isn’t relevant to me.
So the term you’re looking for to address everyone that’s not white you’d be looking for BIPOC … this isn’t Jim Crow days, don’t refer to me as a colored person. I’m Black.
That's fine. It's a trivial gripe, I just think that's getting redundant. Blacks are people of color, indigenous, asians, indians, aboriginal, etc... all people of color. Splitting hairs about labels is only useful to a point. Similarly, I think LGBT is sufficient even if some insist on QIA2S+.
No, I don't claim to speak for them, but that is my opinion. I know some gays who agree with me, and others who prefer the whole label. At the end of the day it is not THAT serious compared to actual, material discrimination/oppression.
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Well since you like “POC,” by all means use it.
Fuck what I have to say.