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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Asians and Asian Americans are people of color, POC.

In order to distinguish and to focus on issues specifically relating to Black and Indigenous people, the term BIPOC was created.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/BIPOC

"POC is widely used as an umbrella term for all people of color, but now a different acronym is suddenly gaining traction on the internet—BIPOC, which stands for Black, Indigenous, People of Color. People are using the term to acknowledge that not all people of color face equal levels of injustice. They say BIPOC is significant in recognizing that Black and Indigenous people are severely impacted by systemic racial injustices."
— Chevaz Clarke[/quote]

Hello, what about the internment of Japanese AMERICANS during WWII? This quote is oversimplifying things.[/quote]

Right, but compare that to 400 years of slavery or near-total genocide.  It's not that there was/is no injustice against Asians (or Latinos or middle Eastern ppl), it's that the injustices perpetrated on Black and Indigenous ppl are worse[/quote]

I'd like to meet the 400-year-old people who suffered all of that.

Many people other than "BIPOCS" have experienced unimaginable hardship and injustice both here and abroad (looking at you Vietnamese "boat people", Holocaust survivors, Rwanda genocide survivors, various refugees of civil war and starvation, etc...)[/quote]

They didn't suffer in United States. Just like in India where there's a caste system I know that it exists but I don't know how the people are separated. I can read about it I can learn about it I can assume lots of things from living there but as a white person if I go into India I'm assumed under some other type of classification.

African Americans and indigenous people in this country specifically the US have been systematically and categorically oppressed by the laws and through social and cultural means. You do not experience the same type of racism that a black or indigenous person has to go up against. The bias towards black and indigenous people is very different than the bias towards Asians or even Jewish or Hispanic, the latter two being ethnicities.

There is literally no benefit to being black or indigenous in this country. None whatsoever.

They are absolute benefits to the bias against Asians. 
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So you think that Indians who come from lower castes here in American don't continue to face discrimination simplify because they are in America now?  Just because you, as a white person, doesn't understand this discrimination exists... doesn't mean it does not exist. Wow.  That's like... the whole point of this. It's not suppose to be viewed from the white lens. [/quote]

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