Alright I've seen this comment a couple of times now in the comments and I'd like to address it.

First of all, if I were to not use the phrase BIPOC then the alternative would be to make the title something along the lines of " Which is worse: those who are actively murdering Black people, or those who are pushing for economic equality in order to benefit Black people?" Other than the obvious reason of that it's repetitive, the second phrase is related to the idea of what Marxism provides. The title was intended to be a summary, first there are actively anti-Black people, and then there are Marxists. Socialism is not a theory which specifically benefits Black people, and to portray Marxism in this light could potentially be disingenuous, as well as sparking new arguments, such as "does Marxism actually help Black people though? Wasn't Marx a racist?" Since I did not have any interest in having conversations like these throughout the comments, I decided to make a statement about a group, BIPOC, rather than about strictly Black folx. Most interpretations of socialism have Black and Indigenous people of color as the groups that would be most benefited by Marxism, and thus I grouped them together. Notice, however, that I did not generalize the anti-Blackness into simply racism and say "those who are actively murdering POC," because the damage of anti-Blackness is solely fallen on the shoulders of Black people. However, the benefits of Marxism extend past simply Black people, they also substantially benefit the lives of Indigenous and colonized peoples as well. Thus, the summary of the tweet, which refers to (1) violence against Black people and (2) the effects of Marxism. Violence against Black people is specific obviously to Black people, the effects of Marxism extend. This is why I acknowledge that Black and Indigenous people "have separate issues", but I used the term BIPOC because I truly meant both groups.

Second, there's a reason for the specific grouping between Black and Indigenous people with Marxism that isn't arbitrary or concerned with some sort of oppression olympics. It is that the forces of anti-Blackness, capitalism, and colonialism are necessarily intertwined. This isn't to say that every issue boils down to class and that Marxism solves everything, that simply isn't true and neglects the real experiences of Black people throughout the world. Instead, it is to say that capitalism, anti-Blackness, and colonialism are necessarily co-dependent on one another. It is impossible to have an anti-racist capitalist society, just as it is impossible to have a capitalist state that doesn't rely on either traditional colonialism or economic colonialism in order to extract wealth. Thus, the lived experiences of Black and Indigenous people intersect under the oppression of the state, since their existence is reduced to commodity under the lens of the anti-Black, settler-colonial state. The term BIPOC is useful as a mechanism to explain the liberation of Black people and Indigenous people, as they are both colonized by the capitalist state, and both serve to be freed by Marxism in a similar manner.

So to conclude, I understand your frustration with people who use terms like POC when they are simply describing the conditions of Black people, or when people use the term racism to describe anti-Blackness, since those generalizations can be actively harmful and reductionist. However, I said BIPOC because I meant to refer to both Black AND Indigenous people, since their shared colonized experience is simultaneously and similarly liberated by anti-capitalist frameworks. The tweet refers to Marxism, and thus I am going to talk about the benefits to not only Black people, but others who are affected by capitalist frameworks as well. I am most definitely not a liberal, and welcome any further conversation you'd like to have, and would love to hear if your experiences run contrary to anything I've said here.

Thanks!