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1. Douglas A. Whitfield (musicman)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Oct-2020 16:18:52 EDT Douglas A. Whitfield

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   Typing two more letters is very much not a big deal but...
   
   I don't understand the argument here: https://www.healthline.com/health/bipoc-meaning
   
   If the point is that not all white people are the same, then why aren't we differentiating the Hmong, from the Karen, from the Cambodian, from the Thai, from the Vietnamese, from the Chinese, from the Mongolian?
   
   What am I missing?
   • LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1)'s status on Thursday, 15-Oct-2020 23:11:33 EDT LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

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     • Douglas A. Whitfield
     @musicman I don’t think you’re missing anything. They’re saying it is all non-whites (POC), but more specifically Black and Indigenous North American people. I don’t agree with the article. If you mean Blacks, say that (and don’t say “African American” ... for a good sized segment of us, that is offensive; in part because it was tagged onto us from the outside, n…