I can kind of see the logic behind person of color vs colored person - putting the "person" ahead of the "color" - but it still seems like such a distasteful term to use, considering the history behind the term "colored person" and the extreme similarity between the two terms.
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Also, of course, because it frames ethnicity as being just "white" and "not white". It's still using white as the baseline, and using one catchall term for everyone who is "not white".
