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I believe people who like the term have sincere motives. Sure, people who are victims of structural oppression are disproportionately non-white. But correlation is not causation. By using a ‘color coalition’ as a proxy for socioeconomic oppression you’re hurting your cause.
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You *lose* natural allies (poor/oppressed whites) and fall for tactics of opponents: the divide between poor blacks and poor whites propped up for 150 years since civil war by the rich. And by casting a wide net, you *gain* unwilling/unsympathetic bycatch who will weaken you.
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I’m broadly left-libertarian, with strong sympathy for people suffering from poverty, poor health, lack of education etc. To the extent skin color is a very strong multiplier I take it seriously, but not symbolically. It’s a good analysis variable but a terrible symbolizing one.
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Forget Asians, who are more likely to not fit politics implied by ‘POC’ than fit. Even rich blacks/Hispanics are likely going to be misfits in ways that seriously undermine intent (for example take roles intended to represent but not actually do so because of ‘white’ incentives)
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Someone (I think ) joked that what America needs is a class war, not a culture war. I’d rather not have a war at all, but I agree if we must have one, a “class war” (though not necessarily constructed in socialist terms) is a healthier one to have.
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One reason I think is a net healthy addition to the political stage, despite being skeptical of her economic policies is that she seems to be pursuing this class-over-culture framing. Not saying drop cultural identity. Just don’t make it the flag/symbolizing variable.
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Tldr: it’s your choice whether to use the term. It doesn’t offend me, but it does not serve me either. It represents a slight negative utility which I would tolerate if I thought it was at least helping people who needed help, but it doesn’t do that either. So I don’t use it.
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Singapore is a very different context than the US, so I can’t really tell. The fact that you guys structurally include bureaucratically defined race in your political system makes it far messier in some ways, far easier in other ways
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