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It wasn't even African-Americans who were getting offended by it, in general. The term came up as an attempt to find a "more inclusive" way of referring to non-white people, without saying "non-white" and without getting people confused by saying "ethnic" (which wouldn't even be accurate anyway, because EVERYONE has SOME sort of ethnicity, even if it's "white American").

I just find it really depressing that nobody nowadays remembers the racism that used to get leveled at Irish people. Irish people have a caucasian skin tone! The only remnant in today's world is "gingers have no soul" and that's just a stupid Internet meme that no one takes seriously. It just illustrates how hung up today's "diversity" push is so focused on skin tone that it completely ignores the fact that racism also occurs between groups with the same skin color. In trying to fight discrimination, it ignores most of the discrimination that happens in the world at large.