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by xibalba 1567 days ago
> Know any people of color? They're screwed

Uh what? Do you really not see how racist this is???

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On average, students of color come from poorer families, who are less able to support a remotely learning student. The schools they go to tend to also be less well equipped to teach remotely. I forget which school, but I saw one not too long ago that was still teaching remotely, but the school itself was open so that students had access to computers to attend lessons.

As a blanket statement, yes, it is wrong. It is, however, more right than wrong when you look at the statistics.

Averages aside "working poor" was listed as a separate category from people of color.
So then just say “poor people”. I’m always surprised at how many well meaning people actually project racist views unintentionally.

And by the way, many “people of color” groups outperform white people both academically and economically. Asians Americans, for instance.

So I went to school in a recently desegregated school district in the 70's- those who could afford to sent their kids to private schools, then voted against the public school budget at every turn. I don't think you can argue that this would not be in danger of happening again.

Expanding the term POC to include Asians is yet another example of white liberals undermining Black and Latino causes to try to convince themselves that they're not racist, only those nasty conservatives are.