Yeah, that’s actually the reason I don’t much care for the term “people of color.” It’s weird though, because while I never refer to myself as a person of color, I have no issue with calling myself brown.

This is the best rebuttal to this article, for sure.

I’m a black/latina woman who finds minorities are useful term for describing the actual political reality in which we live. We don’t have the voting power. We don’t have the economic power. We control no branches of government. Society has purposefully been structured to exclude us.

Words have meaning. Are Jews considered people of color? I can’t imagine they’d appreciate being described that way, although saying they represent a minority is a statement of fact. One of the groups targeted by nationalists in the UK after the Brexit vote is the Poles. Polish people represent a minority but they are…

See to me it isn’t so much as pointing out a minority in the literal sense. It’s just saying youre not white so you’re lower. I’ve never heard white people call themselves the majority outside of a political context.

Eh, I think you did great w/ staying concise - my comment wasn’t as long as it was because it was full of details or illustrations or nuance or esoteric concepts or anything, I’m sure I easily could have cut 1/2 or 2/3 of it out and still made the same point(s) just as clearly, but sometimes I just get tired of…

“People of color” sounds suspiciously like “colored people” which I’m pretty sure is bad. The way order can change the meaning of words is absolutely baffling sometimes.

Say you’re a privileged male, but you’re a dark Sicilian? Say you’re a poor queer woman, but you’re white as milk? How would you get any two people to agree where you should be placed on this matrix?

Thanks!!

Separating everyone into White and Of Color is still establishing a two-bucket dichotomy, though.

I agree with and support the overall, uh, thesis here. BUT, as a couple other people have already pointed out, I’m not sure replacing the term “minorities” with the term “people of color” really solves all the problems you’re addressing here re: labels and ethnic/racial identity. Take this:

“Person of Color” is also defined by its relation to a “white person,” it just doesn’t spell it out. If “whiteness” is a construct, than maybe calling somebody “non-white” is helpful in pointing out that white-ness, by its very being, separates the world into binary “in” and “out” groups, which is a bad thing.

Also, stop using the term ‘race’ to describe members of the same species. Humans are not separated by race, we are one race (also known as species, humans do not have subspecies classifications and there is no taxonomical rank of “race,” the use of “race” in biological terms is met with extreme disdain) separated by…

“The point here is not to switch words every generation without changing our thinking. The point is not to make conversation impractical or impossible. The point is to understand there’s a continuum of racial constructs.”

Actually Daniel, I would go so far as to say that the term “people of colour” is also equally asinine. It’s still creating a divide of “white” vs. “the rest”. I’m tired of being lumped into a singular category that is somehow supposed to represent EVERYONE ELSE that isn’t white. My origins are from India, I am born…

Fascinating, and thank you! My personal research tends to focus predominately on topics that interest me, but I’m very aware that there’s likely a lot of fascinating information available that I would never consider to look up.

Strangely enough, most people I know who are in the minority group find the term “people/person of color” offensive. Too close to “colored person/people”. I always found it a weird term myself, but in the end, I’m “eh” about the whole thing.

Looking at Getty Images, it looks like the woman was a part of multiple photos captured at the same time. I’m guessing that she consented.

You can’t what? Vladimir Putin issued a confirmation, yesterday, that no secret information was shared. You didn’t find that incredibly reassuring? I’m shocked.