I am not white in the sense that "whiteness" is a socially constructed racial classification, but I am "white" in the sense that the color of my skin is white. I'm still not really "white-passing"; you wouldn't look at me and think I'm a white American or a westerner in general.
People will sometimes call me a "person of color". This tends to make me feel uncomfortable because I'm not really marginalized by society in the same way black or brown people are, and to me PoC is a term used mainly to draw attention to that form of marginalization.
It's not that I'm not marginalized at all because of the way I look. When I was younger, I was told to shave my beard any time I flew so I wasn't harassed in the airport for looking too terrorist-y.
Maybe my discomfort with the term PoC being used for me is that it specifically calls out the color aspect, and the color of my skin is white.
So I usually tell people I call myself "non-white" instead. What do you think? Maybe I'm overthinking this. I'd especially like to hear thoughts from black and brown comrades about this: would you call me a person of color? Thanks.
Edit: I'll probably stick to calling myself non-white, but I won't correct anybody if they call me a PoC. Thanks for the thoughts everyone, I appreciate it.
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I’m not going to debate whether or not Americans are fucking racist with you.
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This is childish and absolutely insensitive. Like, yes, i agree, death to America, but this is a thread about race and the person I was replying to talked about personal experiences. You're being an asshole.
You literally have a mod log entry “joking” about how all black people look the same. You probably shouldn’t be in this thread.
What the absolute fuck, and where'd you pull that from? I'm literally black you asshole.
From the modlog. Hope I just misread your comments. My personal experiences are not one of white americans being either “honest” or more “tolerant” of mine or anyone else’s race/ethnicity.
Either way, I’m disengaging.