In fact it badly distorts politics of many groups. To the extent constructing and using the term “POC” signals valuing solidarity and a manufactured class consciousness, it is broadly socialist/modernist in spirit and unrepresentative of (for example) Asian trad/right wing etc.
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Agreed we need tactics to help more people join an “imagined community” not constructed by race. But at the same time, the imagined community of nation is also troubled. What are we asking people to BE beyond race or “American” [sic] or “Ghanese” etc?
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Whatever they want that does not involve coopting others who don’t actually share the identity. Free market of identities rather than bureaucracy. Most people do fine without strongly “being” anything .
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