Clearsky

jakelafort wrote:
Found a few articles. Here is one of em. https://www.gq.com/story/author-damon-young-on-bipoc-phrasing

Works for you, but not me… that “article” is one person’s POV/opinion, hyperbolic, and anecdotal.

Do any of your found articles reflect a more culture-wide authority than that? I’m willing to hear evidence. Just the facts…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:
I think you may be insinuating that my interpretation of POC is idiosyncratic and personal and therefore insignificant. If so you may be correct.

I’d never say the way that anyone feels is insignificant. I’m open to hearing about other experiences too, especially  the younger people you’re thinking of. The tween and teen years…[Read more]

( @Unseen, I think these posts on usage of POC are off-topic but interesting, so I’ll create another topic and move them from here to there, unless you object?)

Jake, you’re probably more well read than I am, and have a valid perspective. (And I mean that, as I admit I’m not well read, in general. But then I have a natural empathy for people who…[Read more]

Language evolves, and POC seems pretty mainstream to me, lacking the sting it had in the past. Here is an example:

https://www.npr.org/2020/08/23/905266596/how-women-of-color-in-politics-have-been-perceived

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Goodness knows, Ex-Muslim Secularist Ibn Warraq never heard this “dog-whistle” and the CRT/Wokeists could bear to learn something from him:

I skipped a half minute here or there several times and finished the 9-1/2 minute video in about 2 minutes! I’m pretty sure I already agree with everything said in that video, so I d…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
Anything that moves in contravention of the physical laws is almost certainly an atmospheric or optical effect.

I’m especially attuned to the possibilities of deception wrt radar, and so on, since I was an Electronic Warfare Systems (EWS) technician when in the Air Force, back in the beginning days of stealth technology. The old…[Read more]