“BIPOC” and 4 Other Words and Phrases That I Find to Be Exhausting

Marvin DeBose
4 min readSep 7, 2022

Not that anyone asked, but I figured I’d share a few phrases and words that I’ve been hearing a lot of in the past few years that are starting to bother me. These aren’t words that I feel are necessarily offensive, I just find them to be annoying. So let’s dive into those:

“BIPOC”- Did you notice that at some point in the past few years, “BIPOC” (an…

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Marvin DeBose

Philadelphia, born & raised. Writer, reader, part-time runner. Edinboro University, Class of 2011. Bylines: The Philadelphia Inquirer, Blavity, Philly Tribune.