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You would think that allegedly driving a PoC student to suicide would count for something in the PC twitter sphere…
by berndi 5y ago
You would think that allegedly driving a PoC student to suicide would count for something in the PC twitter sphere…
- the_lonely_road 5y agoAre Asians PoC? I thought they were not and that was literally the only reason the oft repeated phrase “black and other PoC” didn’t literally translate into “not white”.
- berndi 5y agoWikipedia says they are. However, the Supreme Twitter Council of Wokeness may have ruled otherwise at some point.
- hackflip 5y agoOnly when it is politically convenient
- bronzeage 5y agoThey can't be PoC because their higher than average success contradicts the narrative of victims.
- root_axis 5y agoI have never heard the suggestion that Asian people aren't considered "PoC".
- throwaway894345 5y agoSome woke people will argue that they are “white adjacent” when convenient (e.g., the Harvard admissions scandal) but also that they are people of color when convenient (e.g., the Atlanta spa killings).
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- faeriechangling 5y agoThey are racial chimeras. Changing between majority and minority based on the speakers preferences.
- andromeduck 5y agoAccording to Twitter we're "multiracial whites". BIPoC is also often used as a dogwhistle to exclude Asians and Latinos when convenient.
- anchpop 5y agoAre Latinos not indigenous to the Americas? (genuinely asking)
- csande17 5y agoMy understanding is that the term "Latino" includes both people indigenous to Latin America and people whose ancestors were colonists from Spain. The latter group is generally the larger/more well-known one -- that's why "Latino", a Spanish word, is used to describe them.
- wyager 5y agoThey’ve recently started using the term “BIPOC” to clarify that Asians are excluded, and when they want to include Asians they’ll say “BIPOC and AAPI”.
- tomjakubowski 5y agoNo, by any good faith source that I have read, BIPOC does not at all exclude Asians. "The acronym BIPOC refers to black, indigenous, and other people of color and aims to emphasize the historic oppression of black and indigenous people." Incidentally, one of the co-founders of the "BIPOC Project" is an Asian-American woman. * https://www.thebipocproject.org/ https://www.thebipocproject.org/ * https://dbpedia.org/page/Person_of_color https://dbpedia.org/page/Person_of_color * https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-bipoc-5025158 https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-bipoc-5025158
- wyager 5y agoFrom the BIPOC project website: “We use the term BIPOC to highlight the unique relationship to whiteness that Indigenous and Black (African Americans) people have” If it included Asians they would just keep using POC.
- vimy 5y agoEuropean activists have started using BIPOC as well. They don’t seem to realize that indigenous means white in Europe.
- andromeduck 5y agoIsn't BAME the euro equivalent?
- vimy 5y agoThat’s the UK term. Other European countries are more focussed on the US so they use all the US terms.
- PicassoCTs 5y agoSo many different terms and abbreviations, for what is just humans..
- curtainsforus 5y agoThe most important thing about humans is which ones I'm allowed to attack.
- throwaway894345 5y agoI get the distinct impression that the Twitter sphere isn’t genuinely concerned about people of color, or else they would express concern over, say, inner city violence. Instead they work hard to brand any such concern as “far-right”.
- andromeduck 5y agoIt's mostly just wingnuts & entitled folks trying to make a name for themselves.
- throwaway894345 5y agoProbably, but IMO they have too much power and their behavior is destructive.
- forgingahead 5y agoThe "PC twitter sphere" as you describe them are only interested in one thing: doing what is easy and public for burnishing their own stature, and nothing else. No real problems will be solved by them, because they prefer having the public think they are solving them, rather than putting in the actual work and disciplined thinking to do it.