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The term 'person of colour' is so nauseating.
All it means is 'non-white' and I think it's backwards that people feel we need a specific term for that.
As if black people, asians, arabs, etc. are all the same...
Dunno who came up with that nonsense, but I hate it.
All it means is 'non-white' and I think it's backwards that people feel we need a specific term for that.
As if black people, asians, arabs, etc. are all the same...
Dunno who came up with that nonsense, but I hate it.
Two more dumb things about this term:
1/ it assumes white as a 'default' category. Which is Klan-ish and globally ignorant
2/ it's remarkably similar to 'colored person'. They just changed the syntax. One is considered offensive, the other PC
It's nonsensical. I hate it.
1/ it assumes white as a 'default' category. Which is Klan-ish and globally ignorant
2/ it's remarkably similar to 'colored person'. They just changed the syntax. One is considered offensive, the other PC
It's nonsensical. I hate it.
Beyond that...
3/ it SPECIFICALLY excludes white people. Creating an artificial in group/out group dynamic that is unnecessarily divisive (this is intentional FYI)
4/ it's simultaneously too specific to be unifying, and too broad to be useful as a descriptor
3/ it SPECIFICALLY excludes white people. Creating an artificial in group/out group dynamic that is unnecessarily divisive (this is intentional FYI)
4/ it's simultaneously too specific to be unifying, and too broad to be useful as a descriptor
The only time when it's necessary and valuable to separate whites from non-whites is when doing laundry! 
