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BIPOC or POC? Equity or Equality? The Debate Over Language on the Left.
New York Times ^ | November 1, 2021 | Amy Harmon

Posted on 11/01/2021 4:59:31 PM PDT by karpov

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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.”'

1 posted on 11/01/2021 4:59:31 PM PDT by karpov
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To: karpov

They can fight among themselves on what they’re calling each other this week. I just call them degenerates and commies.


2 posted on 11/01/2021 5:01:05 PM PDT by Trillian
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Out of all the black people i have knows I have never once heard them call themselves “African American.”


3 posted on 11/01/2021 5:04:05 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: karpov

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.


4 posted on 11/01/2021 5:08:15 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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And all this time I thought black was the absence of color.


5 posted on 11/01/2021 5:10:17 PM PDT by ConservaTexan (February 6, 1911/June 14, 1944)
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To: karpov

What a waste of space in a law review article by someone obviously not mentally stable


6 posted on 11/01/2021 5:13:05 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (#LeaveTheGOP. Pass it on Liberty Valance Time. The point of a gun is the only law they understan)
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To: karpov

“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!”


7 posted on 11/01/2021 5:16:43 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Alec Baldwin has killed more people than the Jan 6 protesters. And he will serve less jail time.)
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To: karpov

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’!


8 posted on 11/01/2021 5:20:40 PM PDT by SES1066 (Ask not what the LEFT can do for you, rather ask what the LEFT is doing to YOU!)
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To: karpov

BIPOC = not white

whites, the new ni**ers


9 posted on 11/01/2021 5:23:15 PM PDT by Redmen4ever
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To: monkeyshine
The "Equity" language is about way more than equality. I had sit through a corporate training attempted brainwashing session about the difference between equity and equality. Basically a bunch of communist propaganda that unfortunately a lot of the people in the training were buying into.
10 posted on 11/01/2021 5:25:07 PM PDT by Left2Right (There is water at the bottom of the ocean)
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To: karpov

How do the ‘woke feel about LGBFJB?


11 posted on 11/01/2021 5:28:56 PM PDT by hanamizu
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To: Left2Right

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?


12 posted on 11/01/2021 5:48:46 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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13 posted on 11/01/2021 5:53:00 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: ConservaTexan

White is the absence of color; black is the presence of all colors.


14 posted on 11/01/2021 5:53:39 PM PDT by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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To: monkeyshine

“ 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


15 posted on 11/01/2021 6:00:56 PM PDT by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imaginationd)
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To: dsrtsage

LOL, I guess I set myself up for that one :-)


16 posted on 11/01/2021 6:04:39 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: Organic Panic

I have. “Black” seems just about as common though.


17 posted on 11/01/2021 6:24:23 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: karpov

POC always meant to me Piece Of Crap.


18 posted on 11/01/2021 6:31:25 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult
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To: skr

Depends if you’re mixing light or pigment.


19 posted on 11/01/2021 6:33:35 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: Trillian

Many of us don’t GAS if they say POC, BIPOC, POS or SOB.

They are all IDIOTS.


20 posted on 11/01/2021 6:56:01 PM PDT by Adder ("Can you be more stupid?" is a question, not a challenge.)
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