Op/Ed: Minorities Infantilize Themselves with 'POC-Only Spaces'
Woke blue-haired minorities enable their own infantilization when they indulge in the idea of “POC-centered” spaces. We once called these segregated spaces, but now it’s seen as safe and revolutionary to exclude everyone but their favored oppressed classes.
Take for instance Yu and Me Books, a bookstore in New York City that “prioritizes Asian authors and other writers of color.” She told social media outlet Now This News:
“I really wanted to have a place where the whole store was dedicated to immigrant stories, writers of color, that was not confined to one shelf for one month…
We want to have a lot of diversity within the diaspora of immigrants, children of immigrants, writers of color, and is specifically not focusing on what’s being pushed by publishers, which is, in my opinion, a lot of times forcing authors of color to be educators of our experience.”
A book store that caters to “Asian Americans and other writers of color”… I wonder who that excludes. If you’ve ever visited any metropolitan book store, you’ll already see titles like “White Fragility” or “How to Be an Antiracist” pushed right in front, usually with some splash of Ruth Bader Ginsberg tote bags, and “The Future is Female” stickers. Is it so offensive to have your book shelved next to authors who need to wear sunscreen at the beach?
It’s the same mentality behind the push to shop at “black-owned” businesses after the “Summer of Love,” courtesy of patron saint George Floyd in 2020. They really believe that minorities are so incapable, so hopelessly oppressed, that they need to be coddled at every turn, supported because white supremacy prevents shoppers from buying and reading their cookie-cutter coming-of-age story about the struggles of living as a child of immigrants in America. Wow, I’ve never heard that one before, please tell us your story.
There is a common mantra among the woke: some iteration of “I’m not doing your emotional labor for you.” Their apparent struggle as a hyphenated American is so taxing, so draining, that to explain said struggle is a microaggression against them. There people are as insufferable as they are entitled.
Anyway, all of this should also taken with a grain of salt. It supposes that they’re actually interested in diversity. They’re not. Multiple shades of melanin and various ancestries paper over the fact that “diversity” is just a proxy for their ideology.
Everything is inauthentic with them. If you held a Venn diagram with their ideologies on one side, and the beliefs of their parents and families back home on the other side, you’d find little to no overlap. The population of their homelands are actually overwhelmingly conservative and nationalistic.
In this way, the “representation” they so desperately push is a redirection and smokescreen, whether they are conscious of it or not. It’s Marxism with pastel colors bent on “queering” society, aka cultural revolution. It’s not at all hidden and very on-the-nose.
I can guarantee you they are not promoting the works of colored people — oops, I mean people of color — like Vivek Ramaswamy, Candace Owens, Dinesh D’Souza, Thomas Sowell, etc. Because it’s not about diversity of thought. It’s progressive propaganda dressed up in POC-face.
People like Boston’s Mayor Michelle Wu want minorities celebrating holiday parties without their white colleagues, to build solidarity or something.
Influencers whose morality is formed by nonprofit social media toolkits are promoting a mindset of learned helplessness. White people are public enemy number one. Take the TikToker SrirachaLesbian (lol) from a clip that blew up last year.
“If you have a token white, and you’re hanging out with your friend group of color, you need to ask permission from everybody in the group to bring your white friend. Like, don’t just bring them. Ask for explicit permission from everyone, because just because you’re comfortable with them, doesn’t mean that everyone’s comfortable with them.
I might not be in the mood to deal with white shenanigans that day.
And another thing, it feeds into their ego, like don’t let them think they’re a good white person. Don’t give them that card to use against other people.”
This reads like a joke, but it’s not. There’s thousands of these types on social media, creating copy cats among impressionable teens and young adults absorbing this like a non-binary sponge.
And, you can also see this in the segregated graduation ceremonies that are now common, even (and perhaps especially) at Ivy Leagues. Campus Reform found that dozens of higher-ed institutions are holding special ceremonies for minorities, LGBTQ students, and even the “undocumented,” from Harvard to UC Berkley.
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Can you imagine what it’s like to think this way on a daily basis? No wonder they’re always tired from their “emotional labor.” No, seriously, this isn’t even a sarcastic jab: these people are spiritually and mentally exhausted because they are interpreting everyday reality around them as a construct specifically designed to oppress them for their identity. What a sad and gray reality.
What these people need psychological intervention, not a platform to spread their sophomoric and schizophrenic ideas. Minorities everywhere need to reject this nonsense and let it die with Gen Z and Alpha.
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