Anonymous asked: How is PoC a slur? I've seen counntless people who aren't white use it and even asking other poepel to use it. If it used to be a slur, does it have to be a slur now? Words change meaning over time.
agender-offender-deactivated201:
its not a slur its just racist because
- it throws every non white person together as a group which is exactly what white supremacists want
- it says that we all have the same experiences and face the same problems and understand all of eachothers problems… which is definitely not true
- its literally “colored person” worded in a fancy wayi’m literally so confused by this weird train of thought where people reject “people of color” as racist but then, like, unintentionally acknowledge that it’s an important term to be used because their counterargument literally forced them to use the phrase “non white”
like it’s such weird backwards logic
& also it was a term that was literally coined by women of color in response to the phrase “colored people” so why would that be an argument of why it’s racist? Women of color reclaiming a term and suiting it to put people first and color second in order to ease discourse and create unity is racist? O… kay….
And, no, people of color does not “say” we have the same experiences. “People of color” does not SAY anything. It is a term that is used within anti-racism discourse to ease in the description of the oppressor and the oppressed. How we define our struggles under the umbrella “people of color” is dependent on the people who use it. And when we look at it that way, NOBODY is saying that. Literally nobody. In fact, when people DO try to say that kumbaya nonsense they get their asses dragged because it’s simply not true.
Anyway, you’re, uh, non white yourself (your about me says youre a poc tbh idk what you want to be called) so you’re allowed to like speak against it. I just think this train of logic is dangerous since like obvi it got reblogged by a white person and was seen by white people who felt it was toties cool to be like “Ah yes, people of color, very racist term”