Racialized

I have noticed lately (on Twitter) that "racialized people" or person is becoming the newest term for the category of people whose name has shifted over the decades. Colored people. Minorities. People of color. BIPOC.

My understanding of the adjective "racialized" is that it's grounded in the view (the reality) that race is not real, and so it is imposed on people or a person, and because whiteness is dominant and therefore invisible, racial "others" are the ones who are racialized.

I've been getting used to this new-to-me phrase, and then the other day I came across this tweet:

Instead of using the term "racialized" can we just say "non-white" or "people of color?" "Racialized people" says that white folks are the default and feels/sounds like something you'd hear from/in white supremacist circles. It's just another way to say "colored people" IMO.
Christopher Black @IronTrickGaming

Note that Christopher Black described himself as a "mixed race black person."

Black is reacting against the trend to use "racialized," but in doing so, he calls for using not just a more recent term that has recently been rejected ("people of color") but also a much older term, "non-white," which has been frowned on for a long time.

He finds "racialized people" to be synonymous with "colored people" but he doesn't find "people of color" to be the same, which I find odd. And "non-white people" seems even more equivalent to saying white people are the default, since its subjects are inherently defined by what they are not... not white.

He gets to have his opinion, but it seems to come from nowhere.