[ SECRET POST #2533 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2533 ⌋

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Comments

Re: So either I'm REALLY cut off from Tumblr SJWs or I missed something here...namely, racism.

[nyxelestia]

It kind of is, which is why I try to avoid it. (Doesn't always work, but I try). But not gonna lie, my jaw dropped when I first saw "people of color" in social justice parlance. Like, I thought referring to people by "color" went out of vogue decades ago, when did it come back? And how did it come back as the politically correct term to use?

I think it was meant to replace "non-white". I can kind of get the sentiment behind it, but I also think it's incredibly stupid. The overwhelming vast majority of racial issues trace back to being "not white (enough)", so while I can see why people wouldn't want to define themselves by a race they are not, it seems to be a ridiculous thing to bring back an old racist terminology over.

But then many would say I'm not the most reliable on this topic, because I tend to side-eye most cultural appropriation issues, too. Not because I don't think cultural appropriation isn't a thing - I'm of Indian descent, so I see my ancestral culture appropriated a lot - but because cultural appropriation as a social justice movement tends to ignore the history of culture in general. Namely, most of the stuff in "our" cultures started out in another culture anyway. Some people have started to try to differentiate between cultural appropriation and cultural exchange, but even then, most of it tends to smack of "no! bad white people! my brown-people cultural aspects/psychosocial artifacts, MINE!" so even though I actually have a lot to say about it on both sides, I largely stay away from it.

Besides, most people would say I'm "not a real Indian" anyway (in many ways, including me), so I'm saving myself a few headaches by mostly staying out of that, anyway.

Re: So either I'm REALLY cut off from Tumblr SJWs or I missed something here...namely, racism.

[(Anonymous)]

Honestly I'm not fond of PoC as a catch-all term for non-white. It pits "whites" and "non-whites" against each other and ignores racism that one PoC may face from another. And, on a personal level, it feels like they're erasing different communities, heritage, and connection to roots in favor of fighting.

But then, I look pretty white, so maybe I just haven't had enough racism directed towards me to have strong feelings about it.