A Sad Story

“Under the suggestion and guidance of the BIPOC members” of the group, a New Zealand youth environmental protest group inspired by teen activist Greta Thunberg disbanded, accusing itself of racism.

The racism is real enough. Both "BIPOC" and "Pākehā" will someday be treated as racial slurs, but they can't see it.

6 comments:

raven said...

Sad? Hilarious IMO.

David Foster said...

There was once a rather sick toy--it was a box with a mechanical hand in it, and a switch on the outside. If you turned it on, the hand would come out and turn itself off....

Assistant Village Idiot said...

This reminds me that I haven't denounced myself recently.

james said...

Under apartheid, the thought leaders divided people into
White
and
Colored
African
Indian

In the US the thought leaders (mostly white) divide people into
White
and
Other = BIPOC

It seem curious that they are even more rigorous in their divisions than the apartheid theorists.

I think it is time to denounce users of the phrase/acronym BIPOC: it contains within it the words "colored person," a phrase of infamous and triggering history.

Tom said...

US leaders are neo-Marxists. They have to have a dialectic with two opposing sides.

Assistant Village Idiot said...

@ Tom - exactly this.