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This is a joke right? No one refers to people as "melanated POC", do they? I actually got in spat with a coworker once at a previous company for politely and
by jbm 1y ago
This is a joke right? No one refers to people as "melanated POC", do they?
I actually got in spat with a coworker once at a previous company for politely and sincerely asking what one of these neologisms meant (latinx in that case).
- School-Cotton 1y agoMelanated just means dark-skinned, in case you’re indeed being sincere. And yes, there are people who talk like this.
- jbm 1y agoI can guess what it means, but it sounds like a pastiche and an exaggeration from far right activists that are trying to portray leftists as being out of touch.
- amiga386 1y agoOP's point is it's an affectation, aimed at signalling to an in-group. It's not a common phrase. Like "folx" or "foid", the jargon/cant is there to exclude "normies". Even an appeal for help comes with a barbed "... but not from YOU, outsider" meaning.