What do you think about the term "person of color"?

[Miii]

Personally, I'm getting really sick of all the new terms 20-something year old social justice advocating college students are creating to assert that they're both morally and intellectually superior to everyone around them.

What I don't get is how "person of color" became an acceptable term to people that are so incredibly offended by racism. It lumps every non-white person into one category so that we don't differentiate between race and say that someone is black, hispanic, asian, etc. Why not differentiate and accept the fact that we're different and that it's okay that we're different?

The only purpose I can see this term serving is dividing people by saying you're either a "person of color" or you're white (notice, by the way, that white people are still just white; they're not a "person without color"). I don't understand the logic behind it...

So yeah, I don't like it. What do you think about it?

 

[MozzarellaSticks]

The only problem I see with the term is it includes so many ethnicities as a race. They're still white. It's the ethnic background that matters.

 

[Miii]

The only problem I see with the term is it includes so many ethnicities as a race. They're still white. It's the ethnic background that matters.

I'm not sure what you meant. You see a problem with the term "white" or "person of color"?

 

[Buttonsy]

I mean, I'm white-passing so for the most part my opinions on race-related issues shouldn't really matter since racism doesn't usually personally effect me, but I mean, most people I know who aren't white are fine with the term and use it themselves so I don't think there is anything wrong with it? I do think that if we are talking about, say, anti-blackness, we should say black people and not just people of colour, like if it's specific racism we are discussing then we should discuss the specific people that it effects and not just not-white people as a whole, but since white people do not face racism and therefore inherently benefit from not having to deal with it, sometimes we do need a word that just means "everyone who does not have white privilege".

 

[Fleshy]

It's not exactly a new term, a lot of these "terms" aren't new. How is using the term POC asserting that you're morally and intellectually superior?

Spoiler: according to wikipedia it's been widly used since the 80's/90's

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I'm white and therefore this term has nothing to do with me, I understand it's uses and see nothing wrong with it. I don't see why white people should have such an opinion on something that has nothing to do with them.

 

[oath2order]

I am white, I don't care about the term. If some people want to use it to describe themselves, fine by me. If some people don't want to use it, fine by me.

The one thing I've noticed is that PoC tends to be equated more often than not with black people. I find that interesting, I wonder how that happened.

Also, in regards to this thread in general:

 

[nintendofan85]

I'm white so I don't have much to say, the truth is that I never really thought about the term at all. Not trying to come off as insensitive, just it's not a term I hear often.

 

[Miii]

I mean, I'm white-passing so for the most part my opinions on race-related issues shouldn't really matter since racism doesn't usually personally effect me, but I mean, most people I know who aren't white are fine with the term and use it themselves so I don't think there is anything wrong with it? I do think that if we are talking about, say, anti-blackness, we should say black people and not just people of colour, like if it's specific racism we are discussing then we should discuss the specific people that it effects and not just not-white people as a whole, but since white people do not face racism and therefore inherently benefit from not having to deal with it, sometimes we do need a word that just means "everyone who does not have white privilege".

White people do face racism!!! Racism is not the "power + privilege" crap MTV says it is. And "power + privilege" was a sociologist's definition of racism (they study how people interact, not the meanings of words and how we apply them). It's not the actual definition that's been part of the English language for the entirety of the existence of the term "racism". Consistency in language is what allows to communicate effectively, and you can't just change the definition of a word to fit your narrative. Racism is the belief that you're superior to another race, no matter what race you are and any one of any race can be racist.

Your opinions on race-related issues should matter regardless of whether you're white or not. You still have a brain don't you? You can still think and process information can't you? You can do research and form opinions on things can't you? Then why shouldn't your (and other white peoples') opinion count???

 

[Miii]

It's not exactly a new term, a lot of these "terms" aren't new. How is using the term POC asserting that you're morally and intellectually superior?

Spoiler: according to wikipedia it's been widly used since the 80's/90's

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I'm white and therefore this term has nothing to do with me, I understand it's uses and see nothing wrong with it. I don't see why white people should have such an opinion on something that has nothing to do with them.

You can have an opinion on something that doesn't directly relate to you. You can think about and form opinions on things that don't directly affect your every day life. And the bit about moral and intellectual superiority was referring to how people that don't say "people of color", and rather choose to be specific are looked down on and viewed as "another stupid racist".

 

[piichinu]

guys don't reply to her thread miii only wants approval so she can be racist lol

 

[Zanessa]

If the term offends you, that's a you problem.

 

[Fleshy]

You can have an opinion on something that doesn't directly relate to you. You can think about and form opinions on things that don't directly affect your every day life. And the bit about moral and intellectual superiority was referring to how people that don't say "people of color", and rather choose to be specific are looked down on and viewed as "another stupid racist".

I know I can, but my opinion wouldn't matter anyway, as I'm white and it really doesn't concern me. I don't understand why it concerns you.

 

[That Zephyr Guy]

I... don't see what's with the hate for the term?


Are people seriously hating on it just because it's used in social justice discussions?


It's just a term to address non-white groups as a whole. Of course if you're talking about a specific race, you should use the name of the race. I don't see the same hate directed towards the term "LGBT" even though it's an umbrella in a similar sense.


Mii, did you read this off Infowars again?