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'Person of Color' is a different way of saying 'non-white', to group together people who suffer in similar ways from not looking like the majority in Anglo-domi
by vacri 10y ago
'Person of Color' is a different way of saying 'non-white', to group together people who suffer in similar ways from not looking like the majority in Anglo-dominated countries. The thing is that 'non-white' describes that group by something that they are not, where as 'People of Color' describes them as something that they are.
Perhaps a simile - it's a bit like calling an egalitarian a 'non-white-supremacist'. Yes, the egalitarian is not a white supremicist, so it's superficially accurate, but it's not really a description of who they are.
- Kalium 10y agoI've encountered people who say "person of color" and mean "not white or certain flavors of asian". It can be somewhat flexible.