Is BIPOC the new term to use? What happened to just POC?

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Anonymous wrote:I can say that woke white people came up with BIPOC.

No black person I know uses it unless they're under 30 and super Lefty

LOL! I'm 43 and Black. I saw the term in the other thread and was like "what in the made up hell is BIPOC?" I had to re-read it because I thought it said Biopic.Again, what in thee made up hell??

True story.
Every time I see the term I sing in my head
🎤 2Pac To 2Pac To 2Pac, whatchu mean you don’t know? 2Pac To 2Pac To 2Pac Don’t stop for ohs, I get around. 🎶


Every.time.

I was also singing Maria, Maria everytime I heard Rihanna’s sample of Carlos Santana in Wild Thoughts for a good year before I accepted her version. I would just turn off the song because her singing distracted me.

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Does BIPOC include recent African immigrants too?

LOL. I love how you’re down for the term and just want to get it right.

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Anonymous wrote:Black, [and] Indigenous, [and other] People of Color. It's actually the most inclusive of all variations of POC, if you don't leave out the conjunctions. BIOPOC would be the better acronym than BIPOC.

Up until now, that's how I had read it. But now I think it is about excluding Asians.

POC is actually the most inclusive term. The reason to change it seems obvious, in hindsight. It's too inclusive.

This is nonsense. In my circle, the people who embrace the term the most are Southeast and South Asian.

Nope. I'm South Asian and I am a POC but I am not BIPOC (Black and Indigenous People of Color). Even if you think it's as the poster above stated- Black and Indigenous and other people of color. It clearly others some of those that are already othered. Instead of all minorities being othered by the majority, it is now some minorities othered by other minorities.

It's clear the new term is to highlight certain races and eliminate others. It's divisive.

It is not divisive. It simply points out that South Asians / Asians benefit from the same (or greater) privilege than whites, and therefore should not be included under the POC umbrella.

How so?

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Does BIPOC include recent African immigrants too?

LOL. I love how you’re down for the term and just want to get it right.

so is that a yes or a no?

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It’s... overkill.

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Does BIPOC include recent African immigrants too?

LOL. I love how you’re down for the term and just want to get it right.

so is that a yes or a no?

I want to know too. After a large DC company lost a discrimination law suit for hiring zero out of 100+ Black applicants, they have hired many Black African-born or first generation people, many of whom seem from well off families. How do they fit into the BIPOC world?

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Please, what does BIPOC stand for or mean? Have never heard of it.

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Does BIPOC include recent African immigrants too?

LOL. I love how you’re down for the term and just want to get it right.

so is that a yes or a no?

I think it’s intended to exclude people like Colin Powell, Malcolm Gladwell, and Nigerian princes.

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Anonymous wrote:I agree we should get back to the topic. I think BIPOC could mean either:

Black, indigenous people of color (so, black people who were born here and are descendants of slaves, right, not recent immigrants from, say Nigeria.
This would not include the traditional definition of POC, which would includes people of Asian and Hispanic descent.

OR

Black + indigenous + other people of color (so black people, Native Americans, and other people of color, including Asians, Hispanics...)
So this would include the old POC group but put extra preference and emphasis on black POC and Native American POC.
Is this right?

Okay, I read a bunch more websites and the conclusion I came to is that it is the latter. The whole point, like someone else said, is to emphasize how black and indigenous peoples have suffered MORE than other people of color. It is an acknowledgement thing.

So we’re playing the suffering Olympics? Got it.

WHY DON’T WE JUST SAY ‘POC’?

The term BIPOC stands for ‘Black, Indigenous, People of Color,’ it is meant to unite all people of color in the work for liberation while intentionally acknowledging that not all people of color face the same levels of injustice. By specifically naming Black and Indigenous people we are recognizing that Black and Indigenous people face the worst consequences of systemic white supremacy, classism and settler colonialism.

https://www.sunrisemovement.org/bipoc-gnd-crash-course

This is why it is important to use the correct terminology: BIPOC.