> The term "person of color" (plural: people of color, persons of color; sometimes abbreviated POC)[1] is used primarily in the United States to describe any person who is not white.
> White is the lightest color and is achromatic (having no hue), because it fully reflects and scatters all the visible wavelengths of light. It is the color of fresh snow, chalk, and milk, and is the opposite of black.
> Black is the darkest color, the result of the absence or complete absorption of visible light. It is an achromatic color, literally a color without hue, like white (its opposite) and gray.
It's unabashedly racist. Kind of amazing how it's caught on.
Thomas Bailey
I'd rather be called a fucking nigger than that at least there's history behind nigger and its not a blanket term
Isaiah Sanchez
It's silly, yes
White is the most colorful color.
It's racist, because it's saying whites aren't colorful.
Daniel Lopez
Its stupid, its used interchangeably as 1. a black person 2. a brown skinned person 3. nonwhite person
Its a self-important term which is retarded bc there's no such thing as "color", white people are not "white" they are yellowish pinkish and skin color is one minor difference between ethnicities, another is the broad nose and thick lips of the negro.
Joshua Allen
>white >colour Did you fail physics?
Nathan Butler
I don't give a fuck. It's a good slur. Just pronounce it as "pocks". E.g.: "Get out of here you fucking poc."
Works great.
Nathan Nelson
Well the term used to be non-whites. And they thought it was a condescending term since it implies they lack something we have. While people of color is its complete opposite and implies they have something we don't.
The completely neutral way of referring to races is to simply list them separately and not group them. Instead of poc say blacks and Hispanics or middle eastern or Asians etc. In some sense poc is a racist term since it groups people together under a presumption that they somehow are ideologically aligned. While the term non-whites didn't really have that.
Cameron Morgan
>colored people datz rayciss >it's people of color bigot My face when the colonized get uppity
The areas not exposed to the sun are literally white, and I can see all my veins.
The only reason I have a fawnish tinge is because of being born in an area where I didn't evolve.
James Johnson
listen hear white boy, uh def jam.
Joshua Evans
Everyone that uses the term poc to describe discoloreds will point blanky tell you whiteness is a social construct. The very same people that lump upper middle class orientals with fresh off the hacienda central americans as poc, say whiteness is a social construct.
Camden Perry
Just call them niggers, because that's what they are.
Brandon Smith
>Starting to see the hypocrisy? I only see your idiocy and angsty behaviour towards an umbrella term here
Christian Hughes
definitions are off wikipedia
Black and white are shades, but in terms of race you can't just exclude one because one ideology thinks it's the right way to achieve "equality".
Jose Murphy
>idiocy
The term is idiotic as white is colorful, and the other end, black, is the absence of color.
Nolan Collins
It won't be long until they move to the next word in the euphemism treadmill.
Parker Kelly
I bet your rear end is absent of colour
Henry Wright
FUCKING FINALLY!!!, i knew a thread like this would show up one day, ive unironically hated it since the moment i first heard it, its just so obnoxious, im getting pissed just thinking about it
>white is achromatic depends on if you're working with an additive (visible light) or subtractive color (pigment) spectrum. In a subtractive color spectrum if you mix all the colors together you get black. In an additive color spectrum if you mix all the colors together you get white, and also, where there is light, there is no DARKNESS
Matthew Bennett
Agreed.
It's just a way to group all non-whites together as a collective entity in opposition to whites. Who is not a person of colour? Only a white person.
The term isn't even grammatical. Would you say "here's a crayon of colour"? No you wouldn't, it's a coloured crayon. More specifically, it's a brown crayon.
Also it really points out the absurdity of political correct terminology and the "euphemism treadmill" as described by Steven Pinker.
"Coloured person" (grammatically correct) is an offensive, racist term that you aren't allowed to use any more you bigot.
"Person of colour" (grammatical gibberish) is the nice, acceptable term that we progressives have decided that you have to use instead.
what the fuck? racists started it? they started referring to black people as colored so now that we're all okay using it (anyone not white) you guys suddenly think its racist? lol fuck off
Elijah Torres
How about a bunch of fucking dirty third-world migrants/refugee terrorists come to your country and try to tell how you should talk to them. Go back to your third-world shithole and die.
Ryan Sullivan
so basically you dont belong on pol
gtfo nigger
Xavier Powell
Retard faggot, get hit by a semi and then drown in a puddle.
Kevin King
shut up you slice of ham fuck you egg head
Tyler Peterson
>people of color All I see is brown and black. Where are the colors?
>so basically you dont belong on pol >pol Oh the irony.
Adam Wright
It is honestly a bit racist to lump all non-white people into the same group, as if they aren't different from each other.
Thomas Evans
This.
The left is racist.
Carter Moore
the purpose of the term is to divide white people against everyone else, to make white people the enemy of all non white people that is it's function
Kayden Jenkins
It is retarded indeed, what was wrong with "coloured people"?
Jeremiah Gutierrez
No I don't feel left out, I just understand the intent of the term. When somebody says "I'm glad this position has been filled by a person of colour" what they really mean is "I'm glad this position has not been filled by a white person".
Jordan Anderson
PoC means point of contact, if these people had clientele or work they'd know that
Thomas Anderson
Don't be bringing your "facts" and "reality" into this discussion.
Joshua Ramirez
POC. POO. Heh.
Brody Long
This is so racist!
Just imagine if someone came up with a blanket term meant to specifically exclude black people like, say.. "human". Imagine the backlash!
Unironically this. It's there to simplify history down to a single perpetrator narative. It's there so a individual bereft of any real identity in a post globalist society can still have a 'struggle' against an oppressor.
It's completely artificial because for most of the world the real tensions are between nearby cultures and ethnicities, not some arbitrary American somewhere.
In Australia we have vietnamese and Chinese immigrants. Despite the pretty costly (from a Vietnamese perspective) war against the west no vietnamese identifies as a 'POC strugling against white exploitation'. Their enemy is the Chinese, the Chinese represensent an immediate extential threat and a domineering linguistic/cultural bloc.
In Africa the Bantu represented as much if not more of a threat to Khoi/san/bush peoples than dutch arrivals.
But these dynamics hold little interest for a post-modernist who wishes to fundamentally undermine the west. Their goal is to cause a type of class-warfare against the most succesful model of goverment, and to do so you have to represent the progenitors of that government as an opressor class.
As much as I agree, this is semantics and gets us no where, say this to a liberal and watch as they laugh at you
Kayden Johnson
White is a color too
Henry Thompson
Usage of the term 'poc' indicates a 120 iq ceiling. So be careful how you use the following advice. In situations where you want to use the term >person of color It's best to say it the following way person of >color
Greentext the color part, because that's the retarded part, that's the part that allows the complex melange of races and cultures to be distilled down into a simple enough concept that liberal arts students can successfully wield the notion. Always greentext the color part.
Jackson Mitchell
bump that all on the floor, bump that
Chase Phillips
if any of you ever use this term to refer to blacks/pajeets/hajis
Why is saying "coloured people" racist but saying "person of colour" isn't? It's just the same words swapped round.
I guess when blacks run out of things to be offended over they will turn on this phrase as well
Kayden Johnson
>be Sadiq Khan >announce hate crime laws >overnight all bongs stop saying nigger *sigh*
Brandon Thompson
give me some more, bump that
Aaron Watson
Wtf you talking about sushi nigger?
Joseph Phillips
As people of whiteness we need to unite around our own identity and not try to take away the identity of people of color
Michael Long
get the fuck off this board u dog fucking yellow cocksucker. nigger.
Juan Hill
Just like how black people are not really black. More of a shit type colour.
Asher Cruz
bongs are people of color read genetic history. of englandd and british isles u abbo subhumans
Ryan Jackson
Check but being racist is ok now because it's everyone vs whitey and that's good to them.
Isaiah Lewis
Did you fail art class?
Samuel Morgan
oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
Justin Cook
Upfront style, ready to bump now Pull in the parking lot slow with the bump down Konvict's got the whole thing bumped now Step in the club now and wardrobe inbumped now!
Jeremiah Gonzalez
Say coloured people and you are a racist bigot from the 50s
Say People of colour your a saint figthing for equality
