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If you have been paying attention you may have seen the term “BIPOC” pop up overnight. This is a less handwave-y way of excluding Asians when it is convenient.
by 0x00000000 6y ago
If you have been paying attention you may have seen the term “BIPOC” pop up overnight. This is a less handwave-y way of excluding Asians when it is convenient.
- pc86 6y agoI was confused by the B in BIPOC. I thought African-Americans were people of color? I'm trying to be earnest here because if that's the term that should be used I will use it, but I'd like to know its genesis. It feels wrong to refer to entire, disparate groups of people (indigenous peoples and Latinos in the Dakotas probably have very little in common) by an acronym that seemingly double-counts a particular group seems odd.
- 0x00000000 6y agoit essentially just means “the black and indigenous subset of people of color”. Some definitions say it is to emphasize them more but includes all POC, but the former definition is effectively what it means in any context where one would find it necessary to use it at all.
- pc86 6y agoOh wow I completely misunderstood it then. So BIPOC is a subset of POC, got it. Thank you.