'People of Color' Is a Marxist Phrase. Let's Stop Using It.

[jmyrlefuller]

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/03/people_of_color_is_a_marxist_phrase_lets_stop_using_it.html

by Steven Kessler
March 7, 2019

Like most ideologies, social justice has a lexicon of its own, complete with both formal terms emanating from the academic world and terms emerging colloquially from everyday use by its adherents.  The phrase "people" or "person of color" is one of these terms.  "People of color" is the social justice term used to describe non-white people.

Linda Sarsour, a Muslim-American social justice advocate, once said: "When I wasn't wearing hijab, I was just some ordinary white girl from New York City. ... [W]earing hijab made you know that I was Muslim."

Essentially, the thrust of her point is that she is a white person otherwise, but when she puts on her hijab, she is suddenly a person of color.  Being a person of color has nothing to do with skin color.  A person of color is merely a euphemism to mean someone who is not a white, male, able-bodied heterosexual.  Should it be convenient, a woman is a person of color.  Should it be convenient, a homosexual, a Muslim, or a transgender person is also a person of color.

Anyone who is not a white person is a person of color.  This concept sets up the bifurcation of white people versus people of color.

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[Cyber Liberty]

Good luck with that.  We are not the keepers of the Style Books.

[XenaLee]

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/03/people_of_color_is_a_marxist_phrase_lets_stop_using_it.html

by Steven Kessler
March 7, 2019

Like most ideologies, social justice has a lexicon of its own, complete with both formal terms emanating from the academic world and terms emerging colloquially from everyday use by its adherents.  The phrase "people" or "person of color" is one of these terms.  "People of color" is the social justice term used to describe non-white people.

Linda Sarsour, a Muslim-American social justice advocate, once said: "When I wasn't wearing hijab, I was just some ordinary white girl from New York City. ... [W]earing hijab made you know that I was Muslim."

Essentially, the thrust of her point is that she is a white person otherwise, but when she puts on her hijab, she is suddenly a person of color.  Being a person of color has nothing to do with skin color.  A person of color is merely a euphemism to mean someone who is not a white, male, able-bodied heterosexual.  Should it be convenient, a woman is a person of color.  Should it be convenient, a homosexual, a Muslim, or a transgender person is also a person of color.

Anyone who is not a white person is a person of color.  This concept sets up the bifurcation of white people versus people of color.

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If you are talking about pure caucasian DNA, then most people in America are 'not white'.  Most here are mixed race.... which would make most ""people of color"".   And yet... the left uses its twisted version of "white race" to denigrate even those of mixed race, even going so far as to declare hispanics to be "white" (as we saw during the Trayvon/Zimmerman debacle).  As usual, it is only the left that is allowed to make such definitions.  And as usual, the idiot left is dead wrong.

[bigheadfred]

uh huh

The NAACP, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

Stupid crap.