It gets even worse, where people are pushing for BIPoC instead of just people of color, indicating that black and indigenous are of primary import, and the rest of the non whites are relegated to "other people of color"
Unless the goal is to make political hay of asians getting assaulted on subways, in which case asians are "people of color" who are "victims of white supremacy."
What we learned in school decades ago is no longer considered correct by some people. Also logic is not a strong point of DEI people, for them math is racist [0] and logic is the basis of most math, so it is also racist.
Also white is a color and white people are not even white, but pink [1].
Side issue, but I grew up in Sweden thinking asians have yellow skin.
After living and working with asians for decades in the Bay area, I have yet to meet a yellow one. To my eye, they're on the same white(pink)-brown-black spectrum as the rest of humanity.
It seems that some Asians are already over-represented in certain fields, like sciences. I heard somewhere that being Chinese makes your chances of admission worse.
I always understood bipoc to be used primarily in places where either black people or indigenous people (usually both) had way more oppression than any other race. America is a good example of where bipoc makes way more sense, because they literally stole indigenous kids right out of their homes and built an economy on making a race of people into property. There's something to be said that there wasn't a case where all indian people who immigranted to america systematically had a generation of their children taken, shoved into a school where many of them were renamed, abused, starved, raped, experimented on, and eventually died there, never to see their families again.
