spontaneous seriousness
not really. i mean... how serious could i possibly be? y'all know me, right? lol.
so racism_101 is highlighted on the lj login page these days and it made me think... reading some of the posts, they use the acronym, "PoC". it took me a minute (because i haven't been in school for some time, and i didn't do race/cultural studies even when i was in school) but i finally realized that it stood for "People of Colour".
and... how is that a politically correct term???
i don't want to be called a "person of colour". it doesn't make me feel better. it certainly *does* make me feel like you're about to say something racist. because we're all some kind of colour. caucasian people are called 'white', but no one is actually 'white'-coloured, so come onnnnn.
but i guess in that sense, maybe it IS politically correct. we are ALL 'people of colour' (some kind of colour). keke.
and this made me remember a paper i wrote in law school about applying sexual identity/preference against various legal decisions and laws (as in, was this decision affected by the sexual identity of the defendant? what if it was? what if it wasn't? does it make a difference). and in the paper, i had opted to use as markers, "H" and "!H" for "heteronormative" and "not!heteronormative". my professor gave me a good mark but she commented that some people might be offended by being called 'not!heteronormative'. i understood what she meant but i'd only chosen to use !H because the range of people in the !H category was so wide. i guess i could have called them # and @. it was probably the (not!) that was offensive.
anyway... so i guess now that i've been lumped in as a "person of colour", i understand what my professor meant about being slightly offended by the term "not!heteronormative".
you learn something new about yourself everyday. :D
so racism_101 is highlighted on the lj login page these days and it made me think... reading some of the posts, they use the acronym, "PoC". it took me a minute (because i haven't been in school for some time, and i didn't do race/cultural studies even when i was in school) but i finally realized that it stood for "People of Colour".
and... how is that a politically correct term???
i don't want to be called a "person of colour". it doesn't make me feel better. it certainly *does* make me feel like you're about to say something racist. because we're all some kind of colour. caucasian people are called 'white', but no one is actually 'white'-coloured, so come onnnnn.
but i guess in that sense, maybe it IS politically correct. we are ALL 'people of colour' (some kind of colour). keke.
and this made me remember a paper i wrote in law school about applying sexual identity/preference against various legal decisions and laws (as in, was this decision affected by the sexual identity of the defendant? what if it was? what if it wasn't? does it make a difference). and in the paper, i had opted to use as markers, "H" and "!H" for "heteronormative" and "not!heteronormative". my professor gave me a good mark but she commented that some people might be offended by being called 'not!heteronormative'. i understood what she meant but i'd only chosen to use !H because the range of people in the !H category was so wide. i guess i could have called them # and @. it was probably the (not!) that was offensive.
anyway... so i guess now that i've been lumped in as a "person of colour", i understand what my professor meant about being slightly offended by the term "not!heteronormative".
you learn something new about yourself everyday. :D