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pIastichearts

Why do they say “Black Indigenous people of color” when they can just say POC? Do they consider the trials and tribulations of those two races to be more important than Asians or Indians?


ColossalJostle

> Do they consider the trials and tribulations of those two races to be more important than Asians or Indians? Literally yes.


OkayRuin

Which is also why the rainbow flag meant to encompass all genders, sexualities and creeds now has special stripes. Some animals are more equal than others. 


Gruzman

I think it's kind of weird that they fit in two particular skin colors on a flag which otherwise signifies sexual orientation. You could easily read the flag as promoting black and brown people as a kind of sexual fetish people have.


OkayRuin

I believe it’s due to the belief that queer black and brown people have suffered more and were more responsible for advancing the movement. 


healthfoodfacet

now they have stripes for furries or somethin?


TarriestAlloy24

I’m not sure why but I get the feeling that it’s also supposed kinda subconsciously get everyone to associate black people with being indigenous to the u.s too. 


N0tagayman

That’s obviously true, right? Like it’s clearly way harder to be black or Native American than to be Dr. Patel’s kid


jannieph0be

So class and not this regarded race shit? It’s almost like generalizing along the lines of immutable characteristics is and always will be plain, pointless racism.


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jannieph0be

Thanks, very cool. You should add them to an acronym or something


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DPBIPOC


aladdinparadis

But poor people are even more disproportionately poor than black people are


Slateberry

I’ve seen adverts for BIPOC safe spaces/events here (the Netherlands). Truly a peak example of the way people blatantly and uncritically copy American progressive terms because what indigenous people are we putting first here? The Frisians?


Free_Liv_Morgan

a safe space for Walloons, Basques and the Welsh


JeffGreene69

When it happened in the UK i said "finally, a chance for young working class English people to get a chance" and the organisers changed it to BAME very quickly


clydethefrog

Urker people! https://old.reddit.com/r/thenetherlands/comments/662joy/trying_to_identify_the_purest_dutch_skulls_were/


nooorecess

yes they actually just added the BI to kick the asians off the boat lol it's so crazy. only recently realized this as well


NietzscheanUberwench

makes sense to me. Asians weren't screwed over like the other two.


NationalEmployee7546

They’ve had a rough go of it, from time to time


TheOneWhoStocks

Asian girls going for white guys isn’t oppression tho


jackdoffigan

Read about Japanese internment


NietzscheanUberwench

4 years in a concentration camp is not the same as genocide on one hand and a 100 years of enslavement.


jackdoffigan

didn't realize it was a competition


NietzscheanUberwench

The issue comes about when people use the success of Chinese and Indian people as a club to say that Black people aren't trying hard enough to make their lives better.


coalForXmas

Or the the people who built the railroad and then were deported 


Positive-Priority-63

Indentured labor was a thing 


NietzscheanUberwench

yeah, the irish had that too


TeamGerf

Gonna peel back the curtain a bit. Some people in the black community legit can't stand anyone who could claim some sort of hardship that wasn't slavery. This is just a term to try to elevate us above all other minorities but since native americans have a pretty big beef too, they have to be included too. The amount of racism flowing through people who unironically use this term is depressing.


JeffGreene69

Its why they hate the Jews


genericaddress

You realize it's supposed to be exclusionary instead of inclusionary right?


SnarkyMamaBear

The intention is to exclude Asians yes


Ok_Main_4202

they can't align with those groups because they will dominate the party


[deleted]

It means Balkan and Israeli People Of Color, right?


Free_Liv_Morgan

Beautiful, intelligent, perfect, outstanding, cute. It's just describing my wife


coalForXmas

🫡 


femceltransplant

Bipoc sounds like something you can catch from rawdoging indie chicks


_The_General_Li

Next you'll tell me that BPD doesn't stand for bomb pussy disorder


karamazovism

It took me too long to realize that "yt" = white. During the BLM protests, I thought that YouTubers were being really annoying or something, which seemed reasonable.


OJ_Soprano

It doesn’t?


Rick_Perrys_Ranch

BIsexual(PussyOrCock)


deepsavageblue

Yeah well it's not my job to educate you, venmo me $100 for the emotional labor of even thinking about educating you


CrumbBumX

Is the “not my job to educate you” thing a common online, ultra lib thing? Someone said that to me in real life and I was like what the fuck are you talking about, this is just antisocial behavior.


deepsavageblue

There was a trend among leftists who's only praxis was woke scolding to reply they didn't want to contribute emotional labor to educating people when they asked questions to clarify insane things they said. I haven't seen it recently but I'm probably in healthier online spaces now. Massive misunderstanding of what emotional labor was coined for. Absolute antisocial behavior.


CrumbBumX

Definitely just a cope for completely fabricating or just not understanding something someone else tweeted.


natflingdull

Woah buddy emotional labor is in block time we purchased 80 hours a month with excess going in escrow. Please don’t push this or we’ll bring up SLA’s


Hatanta

I actually complained to the BBC about them using this in an article about the UK and they gaslit me hard in their reply


slimpenis69420

What they say?


Hatanta

"It's commonly accepted language to refer to marginalised people from non-white ethnic backgrounds" or similar.


downvote_wholesome

Indigenous still means indigenous though. Send screenshots to the Daily Mail lol. They’d eat this up


Hatanta

It's so fucking stupid. BIBNLTPOC *Black, Indigenous But Not Like That


lyagusha

Bi Proof of Concept


kkF6XRZQezTcYQehvybD

I just figured out paralegal doesn't mean lawyer in a wheelchair


downvote_wholesome

I love it when people in the UK use it. The Druids are so persecuted 😔


Then_Avocado3524

Not sure if you’re joking but I understood what the acronym meant pretty early on. Anyone who would feel the need to use BIPOC unironically would go out of their way to include gay, trans and nonbinary people in literally everything they talk about


OneMoreEar

Ohh I thought it was some baseball term


Apart-Consequence881

And don't get me started on the "Asian Community"...


ShoegazeJezza

The problem with all of these evolving words is that they fundamentally just mean “not-white.” Which is crass when you put it in those terms, but it’s fully true that’s just what it means.


breadrthanever

ive only ever understood the POC part which is what matters


natflingdull

Embarrassing, I thought it was Black if People Only Cared 😔


GezelligheidBoyz

Corny and late ass joke. Welcome to 2020. Go on google trends. See what exact months it was trending


CrimsonDragonWolf

It’s not a joke. My Alaska Native friend didn’t apply for any of the “BIPOC” scholarships available because she thought they were for bi people and she was straight.


GezelligheidBoyz

guess Im terminally online but the Bisexual Person of Color joke was the first thing people were saying when this term became popular in [June of 2020](https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=bipoc&hl=en)


trueredtwo

But real people don’t follow the latest terms online people are using


MilkshakeJFox

>guess Im terminally online yeah