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In business, being mistaken for knowing something when you've only heard enough to be dangerous.
Go talk to Sheila. She's the one running the department. I'm just knowledge adjacent.
Someone who dresses goth (ie wears all black) but they don't fully accept goth culture
Wow Sierra you wear black all the time are you goth?
No I'm just goth adjacent
Referring to the fact that a straight man can still worry about his image and looks but prefer women.
Also known as a 'Metrosexual'
Your non-Black friend that's been down for so long, your group let's him get away with acting Black
Random dude: Yo! Did that white boy just call you nigga!?
You: Don't trip. That's just the homie. He Black adjacent.
black people who are technically a minority, but has access to, utilizes and sometimes benefits from white privilege. This is usually accomplished by said person distancing themselves from the socio political problems their ethnic group commonly faces. Usually by considering considering themselves better than their minority counterparts sharing their same ethnic heritage. This can also be a person who thinks they are are better minorities possessing a darker complexion.
"Look at Tommy, he's justifying the under-representation of Asian people and the mis treatments for them, he's black himself, what a white adjacent!""
When you're not QUITE correct but you're close to correct.
Iam "Looks like we were wrong about the zodiac killer thing and the inferring meaning thing... Hmm..."
Hym "Ah! Shit! Stop DOING that! But I prefer the term 'correct adjacent.' We were close... So very close..."
Iam "The infer meaning thing was the opposite of what we said"
Hym "👌 Correct adjacent 👌 "
Iam ".....Whatever I'm going back to sleep..."
Hym "Announce yourself visually before you chime in again. I'm tired to you just popping up out of nowhere!"
Iam 🥱👋
A term originating in the Black community as a response to the popularization of the term "person of color" (POC).
Refers to any person that is at least part Asian, Native American, Latinx, or another demographic that is simultaneously non-Black and non-white. The only people who are not white adjacent are white people and Black people. The point of the term is to separate Black people, who are people of color (POC), from ethnicities and races that are not technically white but still fully benefit from white privilege.
Remember, there is no such thing as a light skinned person of color.
You can't be racist to Asian people because they're white adjacent. "Stop Asian Hate" was about racial prejudice against Asian communities, not racism. It's the same reason you can't be racist to white people or white passing people like Andrew Yang and AOC.