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  You have not worded your argument poorly. You just went off the common usage of grammar.
  Take for example the pretty internationally widespread concept that having the male grammatical gender as the unmarked default is sexist, as it implies that men are more important, since a group of 10 men and 1 women would be referred to with the male plural pronoun, or in the case of English as "guys", but a group of 10 women and 1 man would not be referred to as "gals" or with the female plural pronoun but rather the same as the male one.
  This is why you have German, for example, using the combined word form, e.g., SchauspielerIn (ActorTress), with Schauspieler (actor) being the male form and Schauspielerin (actress) the female form, so SchauspielerIn signifies that it could be either. Or in Slovenian, you have e.g. igralec/-ka or lately igralka_ec (actor/-tress or actress_tor).
  You can even take Asian languages such as Japanese or Chinese, where the kanji/hanzi for man is just a combination of power + field, while woman has its own special character.
  If the non-generic form were indeed considered the special one in real life, these arguments would neither exist nor be internationally problematized. And while I agree that non-generic forms SHOULD be treated as special ones, precisely because they are not the generic defaults, which by definition makes them special, that is not how things commonly work.
  Thus, we're right back at your white == normal, PoC == special.
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  Maybe just a semantic point here, but generally, when a term has a suffix or prefix, it denotes that that variation is the special one.
  "Person of color" rather, would imply that "person" refers to a default, and if you're applying that to race, would be referring to a white person, would mean there is nothing remarkable or special about them.
  Adding either a prefix of colored- or a suffix of -of color to the word person, implies that there is something that distinguishes that person of a non-white race from a person who is white, who is considered mundane enough that no qualifiers are needed. >
  
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  Alright, I think you made a clear argument there. Now thinking from a different perspective it does hinted that calling someone a person of color signals someone who is white has none, and it is not necessarily something positive. Verbally, you make sense there and I can see that I may have worded poorly on my argument.