Comment by bborud
6 days ago
> Many on the left believe that non-whites are a cohesive political coalition
What percentage of what group is “many on the left”? This does not sound plausible to me.
6 days ago
> Many on the left believe that non-whites are a cohesive political coalition
What percentage of what group is “many on the left”? This does not sound plausible to me.
Enough to normalize "white men are evil" statements, otherwise such people would get reprimanded and shunned by the other people on the left for being racists and sexists but as is they are still welcomed with open arms.
“White men are evil” does not turn everyone else into a “cohesive political coalition”.
The political coalition there is "people of color" - the point of this was to fight anti-black racism by making a unified group containing them and everyone else who was "not white". This is an improvement over the previous system where groups like Italians/Irish became white by being anti-black. (or were thought to have)
Activists then forgot this was the point and changed the name to "BIPOC" to de-emphasize half the "POC" group (the ones who aren't "BI"), but the whole point was to keep them in the group.
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It’s certainly consistent with the belief that non-whites have political common cause with other non-whites against whites.
Enough that “BIPOC” is a thing that even my retired immigrant parents have heard of.
TIL, and I consider myself pretty far left