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by paulddraper 873 days ago
BIPOC is a term that is confusing as hell.

Who is Black and not a Person of Color?

And what do these people have in common with Laplanders?

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It's a list of historically underrepresented characteristics, and membership in one group does not imply membership in all. "Tall, dark, and handsome" doesn't mean everyone tall is tan.

Black, indigenous, (and/or) people of color.

It's like saying "Tall, dark, and black."

A bit of repetition in there, no?

Probably should have just said POC in my parent comment to skip all this side discussion, but the repetition is the point. - it's used for emphasis.

From wikipedia:

"The term aims to emphasize the historic oppression of black and indigenous people, which is argued to be superlative and distinctive in U.S. history at the collective level."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person_of_color#BIPOC

> "Tall, dark, and handsome" doesn't mean everyone tall is tan.

Correct, but everyone who is tall, dark, and handsome is dark. The person you're replying to is asking: don't "black" and "indigenous" fall under "POC", since POC basically just means "not white"? Or at least black should fall under it.

Fair point! It depends on which binary operation you use for your monoid.