There are so many people out there who seem obsessed with white-knighting for groups of people they themselves do not even belong to and it drives me nuts.
First they come for the blacks, then for da joos, then it will be us. I've heard it so many times that it occurred to me they may really believe it and then left wing politics started to make a lot more sense to me.
Recently it was discussed at work that asking someone "where are you from" could be offensive and it was suggested instead to ask them "where is it that you call home". I'm genuinely confused because to me these statements mean exactly the same thing ![Confused :-//](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/confused0024.gif)
It will stop confusing you once you meet some pitch black "French" who is absolutely maddened by asking him "okay, you are French, but where are you
really from?"
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I think somebody already said it, it's a way for them to weasel out and say "I call this place right here my home". You see, race is a social construct and so is ethnicity, family, nationality and all of that. It really is irrelevant what somebody was born, only what they identify zerselves with and you are not allowed to question it any further.
Then there's the term "People Of Color", is that not the same as saying "Colored People"? The latter is considered offensive, the former to me sounds the same as the latter so I don't use either.
People get offended by you not going out of your way to remind yourself and everyone around how important social justice is to you.
Using the latest social justice fad terminology is a way you remind yourself and everyone around how important social justice is.
Once the effect wears out and a social justice term becomes a common noun and perhaps, oh horror, makes it into some racial government statistics (like African American already did) then a new term is invented for virtue signaling and the whole cycle starts anew. It will never end (until the 7+ billion people of the world become one unified Eurasian-Negroid race similar in appearance to Ancient Egyptians and the diversity of peoples is replaced with a diversity of individuals - I will wait
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).
And in my personal experience there are more who don't want to be "represented" by the "allies".
Yes, these are those who contact
you ![Wink ;)](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/wink.gif)
In general, most of the "people of color" in the West are clearly some sort of liberal/libertarian/egalitarian/post-racist/etc because otherwise they wouldn't be living there in the first place (maybe with the exception of the latest wave of "just about anyone who has the legs to cross an unsecured border").
But there are others too who fuel the drama for having nothing better to do with their lives.
At any rate, I know software developers who avoided the master/slave terminology a few years ago to escape controversy (yes, it's that old). We know that Microsoft® GitHub™ announced they are "working on it", whatever that means. Google, Facebook etc probably are "sanitizing" their codebases behind the scenes as we speak. Those clowns will do it. It may not happen everywhere, there will be resistance etc, but it will be happening in many places. Just like "affirmative action" and all the other progress stuff.
America's problems can only be solved by Rocket Man at this point
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