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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Also, just because someone is a POC that does not at all mean they can't be uncivil and even racist - including to other POCs.

As examples, in my life, I've witnessed...
- UMC suburban blacks denigrating poor inner city blacks
- AA Blacks denigrating black immigrants
- Light skinned and dark skinned blacks denigrating each other
- Urban blacks denigrating rural blacks
...and in most cases these also involved invoking racist language and stereotypes.[/quote]
This is incredible. White people are something else, abusing the term racism to the point that it’s lost all meaning. [/quote]

How is it abusing the term "racist?"  It's incredible that some people have abused the term "racist" to the point where they suggest it's impossible for POCs to be racist even as they are attacking someone over their race or screaming racist epithets.  For example, the spate of racist attacks on Asians, with several committed by blacks.  Sorry but "racist" does NOT get defined strictly by "majority in power."  That's institutional racism.  There is also personal racism separate from institutional racism, but it is still racism nonetheless.  Nobody is absolved of racism at any level, including POCs.  Nobody.[/quote]

I'll also add, you made a bad assumption about 'white people' are something else.  Just because someone is calling out racism by POCs does not make them white.  Horrific behavior is horrific behavior no matter what race.[/quote]

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