Excuse my ignorance but do Asians "count" as people of color? I thought that usually referred to Latinos and African Americans?
I know that university admissions PoC don't include Asians, in fact most admissions standards are stacked against them.
I know that university admissions PoC don't include Asians, in fact most admissions standards are stacked against them.
Edit: There is a long explanation of why Asians are sometimes excluded. The short answer is racism against Asians.
He thinks I'm racist for quoting wikipedia. I've met people like him at work. Overly sensitive people is exactly why I don't want to write about race issues.
I mean, I think you buy into and identify with a concept that is explicitly, by definition anti-white..
Is that not racist?
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>This is exactly why I don't want to write about race issues.
Because everyone needs to agree with you about them 100%?
Sorry, what? Considered by whom? Because we should have a word with these people about how unimaginative they are.
For one thing, there are plenty of ways a member of group X could experience institutional racism in an X-majority country. Perhaps they live in a Y-dominated region of the country, or work for a Y-owned company, or group Y has more political/economic/cultural power in society despite being a minority, or they work for an organization whose policy is to hire and promote Y preferentially.
More generally, I don't see the purpose of desperately insisting that institutional racism can never affect group X. To say that group X can be harmed certainly doesn't mean that group Y isn't harmed more. It's a weird and pointless linguistic game that harms the purpose of achieving equality of opportunity by gratuitously driving away allies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutional_racism
The fact is, the occasional inconvenience on whites in America (as a convenient example) from occasional pockets of bigoted blacks is fundamentally different from the regular impact on blacks from the institutionalized racist tendencies in society.
White people can certainly experience this in countries where they are the majority. As an example taken directly from the wikipedia article, white people significantly underperform Asians on standardized tests, they are more likely to live in poor neighborhoods, have worse health, and are disproportionately likely to be "targeted" by police (also they commit less crime).
Can you cite any piece of evidence in favor of institutional racism by whites against blacks that doesn't also support institutional racism by asians against whites?
There are contexts where Asians are underrepresented; political representation comes to mind. In those places "people of color" makes more sense.