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Stop Calling Us "People of Color"

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Tommy
Dec 07, 2021
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Using the term “People of Color” (POC, BIPOC, etc.) is the most obviously divisive way to classify people. It’s also interesting that people who want to “decenter whiteness” classify humans as either white, or everyone else. How can they not see the incoherent hypocrisy? 

I understand the need to classify in order to understand and communicate between hu…

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