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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

By all means, show up. In a similar fashion to an non-Jewish Asian college student showing up to Hillel, there might be plenty of questions around what you're hoping to get out of the experience?

But not sure why you're just automatically assuming you wouldn't be accepted.   [/quote]

Because I’ve been told so. It’s from experience. [/quote]

No snark intended, but...what did you hope to get from the experience? I would probably question the sincerity of your motives if I were a POC because, while you can hide your religion from strangers relatively well, I cannot change my skin color. I would think we would have pretty different experiences and support approaches / strategies to move around in the world as a result.   [/quote]

Do you know the history of Blacks and Jews working together during the civil rights movement in the 60s? I was trying to continue a long history of Jews being allies. Right before MLK spoke at the March on Washington, a Rabbi spoke: https://www.google.com/amp/s/m.huffpost.com/us/entry/3814893/amp

I wasn’t welcome. I was told Jews aren’t wanted as allies because we are just white people. I was actually called a white supremacist.[/quote]

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