The phrase african american is racist, but its the preferred phrase. You are assuming someone is an african immigrant based on the color of their skin. By all accounts, black is a less racist term. Society rarely makes sense.
I mean, dividing people up by race is racist, considering our "race" is human.
Even dividing into "ethnicities" gets hairy. Skin color is all you really have to go on. Especially considering the number of ethnicities in groups like "white" or "hispanic" or "black"
This sort of point of view is (usually) well intentioned but not at all helpful. POC get treated differently within our society (referring to the US, at least) and looking at it in this "color blind" way essentially ignores or trivializes all of that.
You don't have to make them "not us" to address that. Especially with made up labels like implying they aren't human, and are instead a different "race"
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u/MyPeenyIsTiny Dec 11 '19
In truth implying that only white people can be racist is racist.