I really strongly agree, but I'm a white man, so it can be difficult to confidently have a reasonable conversation about, or maybe I really shouldn't care/be talking at all.
I think it was the actor Morgan Freeman who in an interview answered something like 'how do we fix racism/diversity' with 'stop talking about it'.
But I'd go further, I find 'PoC' (person/people of colour) which you used yourself a really strange term, I think I'd hate it. 'Why aren't I just a P? Those white guys aren't called Pw/oC.' Your prerogative, of course.
Trends come and go, I suppose - it just seems so close to 'coloured', which has itself been both a preferred 'PC' term and considered racist at different times. It's so similar to PoC that I'm honestly not sure where it stands now, I wouldn't use it.
When the distinction actually does matter, do we need such euphemisms? At least in the UK, though 'PoC' seems to be catching on a bit, people are and have long been happy with white/brown/black, IME.
I'm not a 'manager in an influential company' but if I am ever running the show I don't even want a hush-hush programme - just hire good people and shut up about their heritage/preferences IMO. I realise there's a pipeline problem, but I think you help fix that by funding and otherwise supporting the early stages of it, not by being lax on merit or setting quotas for your late-stage admission process.
The sad thing about PoC is that using the grammatical synonym “colored people” has recently ended people’s careers.
The funny thing about PoC is that it (apparently) includes Asians.
In California, Asians are greatly over-represented in colleges, etc.
So, any effective equity system would mostly just be reinstating old-school quotas against hiring/admitting too many Chinese people (which UC correctly eliminated decades ago).
Anyway, I suggest the UK revert to the global favorite of the 1990’s: African American.
I think it was the actor Morgan Freeman who in an interview answered something like 'how do we fix racism/diversity' with 'stop talking about it'.
But I'd go further, I find 'PoC' (person/people of colour) which you used yourself a really strange term, I think I'd hate it. 'Why aren't I just a P? Those white guys aren't called Pw/oC.' Your prerogative, of course.
Trends come and go, I suppose - it just seems so close to 'coloured', which has itself been both a preferred 'PC' term and considered racist at different times. It's so similar to PoC that I'm honestly not sure where it stands now, I wouldn't use it.
When the distinction actually does matter, do we need such euphemisms? At least in the UK, though 'PoC' seems to be catching on a bit, people are and have long been happy with white/brown/black, IME.
I'm not a 'manager in an influential company' but if I am ever running the show I don't even want a hush-hush programme - just hire good people and shut up about their heritage/preferences IMO. I realise there's a pipeline problem, but I think you help fix that by funding and otherwise supporting the early stages of it, not by being lax on merit or setting quotas for your late-stage admission process.