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Originally Posted by Shrub
(snip)a non-white-passing person of color and how they may differentiate between my white-passing and white friends(snip)
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I got a PM about this terminology and I wanted to clarify what I mean. I didn't mean to offend in any way with this terminology and it has been brought to my attention that this has been used in a derogatory and offensive sense, and that was not my intention in using these terms. Feel free to use any other terms as you see fit and comfortable.
When I say non-white-passing, I mean someone who is not perceived by others who do not know someone's ethnicity as white. On the flip-side, a white-passing person is perceived by others as white but is a PoC. I brought this up mainly because my brother and I are both Hispanic and at one point were both in FRC, but many people thought he was white until he clarified that we were both Hispanic (or he spoke in Spanish). I do not bring this up to address any type of privileges held by any other group, simply experiences, and have amended my original post.
Again, I used this term because it is a common one for me and did not know of its derogatory past until it was brought up to me, which I am very glad it was.