Posted on 11/01/2021 4:59:31 PM PDT by karpov
In California, a Black college freshman from the South is telling a story about his Latino friends from home when he is interrupted by a white classmate. “We say ‘Latinx’ here,” he recalls her saying, using a term he had not heard before, “because we respect trans people.”
In Philadelphia, Emma Blackson challenges her white neighbor’s assertion that Black children misbehave in school more than others. “It’s just my implicit bias,” the neighbor offers, saying that she had recently learned the phrase.
In Chicago, Kelsey O’Donnell, 31, wonders why colleagues and friends have suddenly started saying “BIPOC,” an acronym that encompasses individuals who are Black, Indigenous or other people of color. Where had it come from? “There was really nobody to ask,” says O’Donnell, who is white. “It was just, ‘This is what we say now.’”
Americans have always wrestled with language when it comes to describing race, with phrases and vocabulary changing to meet the struggles and values of the moment. But especially in the wake of last summer’s protests for social justice, there is a heightened attention to this language, say scholars and activists, as some on the left try to advance changes in the culture through words.
“You can’t change what you can’t name,” said Cathy Albisa, vice president of the education nonprofit Race Forward.
For some people, though, the new lexicon has become a kind of inscrutable code, set at a frequency that only a narrow, highly educated slice of the country can understand or even a political litmus test in which the answers continually change. Others feel disappointment, after so many protests last summer demanded far deeper change on issues like criminal justice and voting rights.
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'"In “Why BIPOC Fails,” an essay in a recent issue of the Virginia Law Review, Meera Deo, a sociologist and professor at Southwestern Law School, notes that the term can end up being “confusing” or “misleading.”
The acronym, which was widely adopted only in the last year or so, is often misread as meaning “bisexual people of color.”'
They can fight among themselves on what they’re calling each other this week. I just call them degenerates and commies.
Out of all the black people i have knows I have never once heard them call themselves “African American.”
There’s no debate over language. It is a deliberate distortion of language. They substitute Equity because it sounds a lot like Equality and who is against Equality? But that’s not what Equity means, it just fools a lot of people.
Inclusion is important to the left, but only if you agree with who shall be excluded.
And all this time I thought black was the absence of color.
What a waste of space in a law review article by someone obviously not mentally stable
“Hey! I invented a new term! I bet you don’t know what it is!”
“You’re right. I have no idea.”
“Well, that just proves what a RACIST you are!”
I keep having the impression that there is a group of LEFTist that never got over their sophomore ‘humor’. They meet on a regular basis and brainstorm how they will introduce a new insult to the language. It is POWER that they wield and they will continue to have that power until WE, the DEPLORABLES, stop paying attention to their IDIOCY like ‘poc’ or ‘bipoc’!
BIPOC = not white
whites, the new ni**ers
How do the ‘woke feel about LGBFJB?
It all boils down to a bunch of people who did no harm must have to pay restitution to and seek absolution from a bunch of people who were not harmed.
This whole identity type stuff confuses me a lot. Does a Black, Female, Gay Architect care most about being Black, being Female, being Gay, or designing beautiful buildings and getting paid well for it?
White is the absence of color; black is the presence of all colors.
“ This whole identity type stuff confuses me a lot. Does a Black, Female, Gay Architect care most about being Black, being Female, being Gay, or designing beautiful buildings and getting paid well for it?”
She most likely wants to design a mind bogglingly hideous building and accuse anybody who thinks its ugly of racism, misogyny, and homophobia
LOL, I guess I set myself up for that one :-)
I have. “Black” seems just about as common though.
POC always meant to me Piece Of Crap.
Depends if you’re mixing light or pigment.
Many of us don’t GAS if they say POC, BIPOC, POS or SOB.
They are all IDIOTS.
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