Just NBC now claiming “Colored people” only means blacks and only has historically
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What’s the difference between colored people and people of color?
In group versus out group identification, aka "racist dog whistle"?
Are you sure that's an out-group identification? My impression was the old timers were fully in on Colored. At the time when it was a popular term to use at all.
It is the euphemism treadmill, but more politically charged. "People of color" replaced "coloreds/colored people" which replaced something else before it, and I would argue that the lefty in-group of now use "people of color" as a way to show their allegiance while the old timers use "colored people" as it is what they knew was acceptable in polite company or a general term for non-whites.
Eventually, PoC will be seen as what the out of touch/elderly/racists use with whatever new term being a way to show how up to date and (insert new slang term for woke) those who use it are.
Yes, that's what they do. A series of shibboleths.