And there is starting to be a movement against the use of the POC term, because it lumps everyone with more than a given amount of melanin into one homogenous “non-white” category, instead of recognizing the actual diversity of people from across the world. Like, what does a recent Malay immigrant culturally have in common with an American whose ancestors were forcibly brought over 200 years ago and enslaved?
To be honest, I can see why ‘POC’ would be culturally reductionist and have been kind of surprised at the progressive adoption of it. Seems obvious that it will be deprecated.
The point of "POC" was to form a political coalition of all the non-white people so they wouldn't fight each other; Irish and Italians "became white" earlier in US history by basically showing off they could be racist to black people too.
It can't last forever, since young people always want to start new language, but the replacements like "BIPOC" aren't catching on since nobody knows what it means.
To be honest, I can see why ‘POC’ would be culturally reductionist and have been kind of surprised at the progressive adoption of it. Seems obvious that it will be deprecated.