Troy is a good person, but a terrible movie

hightouchghost:

spookygardens:

tzachquiel:

Why “People of Color” is offensive:

It lumps all races together, ignoring separate cultures and erasing the separate heritages of different races—i.e. Asian cultures are vastly different from African cultures (though both are worthwhile).

It’s often used solely to exclude white people, in order to diminish their humanity or harass them in other ways.

It’s typically a very patronizing term, as in “PoCs deserve separate scholarships because they’re not smart enough to earn academic scholarships.”

There’s almost never any pride associated in being “of color,” hence its usage instead of that of a specific culture—Vietnamese and proud, African and proud, Brazilian and proud.  In this sense, it also diminishes the individual humanity of “people of color.”

reasons why your opinion doesn’t matter:

• you’re white, therefore you trying to define what non-white people should call themselves is automatically racist
• you clearly don’t know what you’re talking about
• it’s not “lumping cultures together” because there’s no cultural implication
• all people of color means is “nonwhite”
• that’s it
• i know, knowledge is amazing
• “It’s often used solely to exclude white people, in order to diminish their humanity or harass them in other ways.” oh you mean like white people did to people of color for centuries and continue to do? oh wow that’s so interesting
• ” ‘PoCs deserve separate scholarships because they’re not smart enough to earn academic scholarships.’” seriously stop talking your racism is showing you fucking pig. why don’t you google the amount of actual scholarships where all you have to do is be a person of color. you don’t have to have any sort of academic merit, or anything. oh wait those don’t exist. also they’re still vastly outnumbered by the amount of scholarships received by white students.
• you know what diminishes our humanity? white dudebros deciding what we should/shouldn’t call ourselves.

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