Re:Please commit more blatant academic fraud
by berndi on Sunday May 30, 2021 @07:51AM
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You would think that allegedly driving a PoC student to suicide would count for something in the PC twitter sphere…
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Re:Please commit more blatant academic fraud
by throwaway894345 on Sunday May 30, 2021 @11:35AM
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I get the distinct impression that the Twitter sphere isn’t genuinely concerned about people of color, or else they would express concern over, say, inner city violence. Instead they work hard to brand any such concern as “far-right”.
Re:Please commit more blatant academic fraud
by andromeduck on Sunday May 30, 2021 @03:54PM
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It's mostly just wingnuts & entitled folks trying to make a name for themselves.
Re:Please commit more blatant academic fraud
by throwaway894345 on Sunday May 30, 2021 @04:56PM
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Probably, but IMO they have too much power and their behavior is destructive.
Re:Please commit more blatant academic fraud
by the_lonely_road on Sunday May 30, 2021 @08:29AM
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Are Asians PoC? I thought they were not and that was literally the only reason the oft repeated phrase “black and other PoC” didn’t literally translate into “not white”.
Re:Please commit more blatant academic fraud
by PicassoCTs on Sunday May 30, 2021 @01:31PM
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So many different terms and abbreviations, for what is just humans..
Re:Please commit more blatant academic fraud
by curtainsforus on Sunday May 30, 2021 @07:57PM
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The most important thing about humans is which ones I'm allowed to attack.
Re:Please commit more blatant academic fraud
by hackflip on Sunday May 30, 2021 @09:07AM
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Only when it is politically convenient
Re:Please commit more blatant academic fraud
by root_axis on Sunday May 30, 2021 @11:31AM
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I have never heard the suggestion that Asian people aren't considered "PoC".
Re:Please commit more blatant academic fraud
by throwaway894345 on Sunday May 30, 2021 @11:37AM
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Some woke people will argue that they are “white adjacent” when convenient (e.g., the Harvard admissions scandal) but also that they are people of color when convenient (e.g., the Atlanta spa killings).
Re:Please commit more blatant academic fraud
by faeriechangling on Sunday May 30, 2021 @11:53AM
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They are racial chimeras.
Changing between majority and minority based on the speakers preferences.
Re:Please commit more blatant academic fraud
by andromeduck on Sunday May 30, 2021 @03:55PM
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According to Twitter we're "multiracial whites".
BIPoC is also often used as a dogwhistle to exclude Asians and Latinos when convenient.
Are Latinos not indigenous to the Americas? (genuinely asking)
Re:Please commit more blatant academic fraud
by csande17 on Sunday May 30, 2021 @05:50PM
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My understanding is that the term "Latino" includes both people indigenous to Latin America and people whose ancestors were colonists from Spain. The latter group is generally the larger/more well-known one -- that's why "Latino", a Spanish word, is used to describe them.
Re:Please commit more blatant academic fraud
by bronzeage on Sunday May 30, 2021 @10:23AM
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They can't be PoC because their higher than average success contradicts the narrative of victims.
They’ve recently started using the term “BIPOC” to clarify that Asians are excluded, and when they want to include Asians they’ll say “BIPOC and AAPI”.
Re:Please commit more blatant academic fraud
by tomjakubowski on Sunday May 30, 2021 @02:50PM
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No, by any good faith source that I have read, BIPOC does not at all exclude Asians. "The acronym BIPOC refers to black, indigenous, and other people of color and aims to emphasize the historic oppression of black and indigenous people."
Incidentally, one of the co-founders of the "BIPOC Project" is an Asian-American woman.
* https://www.thebipocproject.org/
From the BIPOC project website: “We use the term BIPOC to highlight the unique relationship to whiteness that Indigenous and Black (African Americans) people have”
If it included Asians they would just keep using POC.
European activists have started using BIPOC as well. They don’t seem to realize that indigenous means white in Europe.
Re:Please commit more blatant academic fraud
by andromeduck on Sunday May 30, 2021 @04:47PM
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Isn't BAME the euro equivalent?
That’s the UK term. Other European countries are more focussed on the US so they use all the US terms.
Re:Please commit more blatant academic fraud
by forgingahead on Sunday May 30, 2021 @02:00PM
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The "PC twitter sphere" as you describe them are only interested in one thing: doing what is easy and public for burnishing their own stature, and nothing else. No real problems will be solved by them, because they prefer having the public think they are solving them, rather than putting in the actual work and disciplined thinking to do it.