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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Somewhat related, can someone explain to me why POC is now a no-no term? Is it because it doesn't center blackness? A black woman who seems to consider herself a spiritual leader on my FaceBook feed announced she was going to unfriend the next person who used the term POC. Why?[/quote]

I assume because people want to focus on the groups within POC who people thinks continue to suffer most - Black people more than, say, a person of East Asian descent. Both are POC, but I gotta say as a person of East Asian descent I got some dirty looks from black and Hispanic students for showing up to a POC event in college. I assume BIPOC is to prevent stuff like that from happening [/quote]

But as a Jewish person, I still wouldn’t be accepted. [/quote]

Right, because lots and lots of Jewish people did really well, just like East Asian immigrants did. So you and I don’t get included in the recent discrimination talk. I’m aware of the Holocaust, pograms, century after century of persecution against Jews. I’m also aware of a history of racism against East Asians - we all learn about Jim Crow but I’m always shocked to hear that many higher schoolers never learn about the Exclusion Act against Chinese or about Internment camps. So I have mixed feelings about this. I feel as a person of East Asian descent that culturally it’s totally acceptable to be racist against East Asians and nobody gives a crap. But I admit it’s not people who look like me who are being shot and suffocated to death by police. [/quote]

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