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It's often used to include people of color who aren't necessarily Black

• prepend 4y ago
  But aren’t South Asians people of color? And overrepresented in tech companies. I’m not sure that brown people are underrepresented in tech or that these layoffs hit them harder. In fact, the article doesn’t share any data that the layoffs hit black people more than any other so if they are underrepresented in tech companies at only 7%, doesn’t that mean they would also be underrepresented in layoffs? So there are actually fewer impacted by these layoffs than non-black. In the US, black is a race so I think I understand the usage. But not sure what brown means unless it’s some offensive term for Latino. I don’t really think that people who have brown skin share many socioeconomic characteristics as they are many different races and ethnicities and cultures.
  • Tade0 4y ago
    That's what I was trying to get at - brown isn't terribly specific. Just about anyone living close to the equator is going to be at least brown in skin tone. I've only seen this term used to lump all these people together and deem them insignificant.