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You are correct, a trivial piece of evidence is the invention and (limited) popularization of a new label [1] beyond “minority”/non-white

1: https://www.nytimes.com/article/what-is-bipoc.html

For anecdotal flavor I’ll mention that I briefly worked in Hollywood and casting requests trended towards “BIPOC” rather than “non-white”, including in roles that had no evident racial component (i.e., the request was indicative of an apparent desire to have a nominally “diverse” cast without any real storytelling commitment to the racial diversity of said character(s) and there was a pronounced bias in these characters (constructed to be "diverse") towards a particular sliver of racial diversity).




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