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What has? C*nt?
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Don't slate the guy just for saying 'coloured' - it might not have been meant in the wrong context. It was a perfectly acceptable word at one point (I remember getting told off in a Geography class for referring to blacks and I was told to use the term coloured - that was in the early 1990's).
In 10 years time it might be considered offensive to use the term 'black' - I feel sorry for some old people who might not keep up with the changes in language and can wrongly be labelled as racist when they're not. It's too easy to jump on the PC bandwagon sometimes. |
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Different people use different terminology. Surely behaviour and the way people treat each other is FAR more important than teminology (which does come and go with the years and generations can eaily get left behind without realising).
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an unawareness of acceptable language, when referring to fellow human beings, tends to betray some level of racism.....
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an unawareness of acceptable language, when referring to fellow human beings, tends to betray some level of racism..... maybe not outright facist racism, but racism nonetheless....
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i really dont think the poster of this thread meant any harm by his question. its ridiculous to jump down his throat like this as i find it difficult to believe anyone would be offended by it. its not as if he even used an ugly word....just a dated one.
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How many of you who have posted your disgust at the original thread are 'black', 'coloured' or shall we say 'people of colour?
I personally think it's not WHAT is said but HOW. Some poeple just have a way of being ofensive no matter what term they're using, and others get annoyed on your behalf - so, who's who on this thread?! |
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an unawareness of acceptable language, when referring to fellow human beings, tends to betray some level of racism..... maybe not outright facist racism, but racism nonetheless....
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I dont think it's dated at all. We all know what he meant, I have no problem with it.
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an unawareness of acceptable language, when referring to fellow human beings, tends to betray some level of racism..... maybe not outright facist racism, but racism nonetheless....
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If people wouldn't be so tightarsed about the subject asking about ginger or black would be the same and there would be no big deal. Even the musical "Hair" made a mockery of that with "I am pink" in the 70s. Nothing has moved on since then it appears.
such are the detailed public reactions that many black people have to put up with every day. |
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when an elderly white woman sees a ginger haired person coming towards them in the subway they are less likely to clutch their bag that extra bit tighter as they often do when seeing a black person.
such are the detailed public reactions that many black people have to put up with every day. |
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What's wrong with refering to colours?
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i dont know how to describe people, im frightened i offend someone
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I thought Rawham wrote a fair and well-balanced post - I guess that makes me a foaming racist as well.
And I was happy Bez won, so I'm also a low-life druggie scum according to another thread. Hurrah! I'm having a good day. :yawn: Quote:
Originally Posted by biomorph04
an unawareness of acceptable language, when referring to fellow human beings, tends to betray some level of racism..... maybe not outright facist racism, but racism nonetheless....
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Originally Posted by Rawham
Don't slate the guy just for saying 'coloured' - it might not have been meant in the wrong context. It was a perfectly acceptable word at one point (I remember getting told off in a Geography class for referring to blacks and I was told to use the term coloured - that was in the early 1990's).
In 10 years time it might be considered offensive to use the term 'black' - I feel sorry for some old people who might not keep up with the changes in language and can wrongly be labelled as racist when they're not. It's too easy to jump on the PC bandwagon sometimes. Quote:
Originally Posted by Doc Shmok
The usual PC minefield ...
I wasn't aware that c.... was also on the list of non usable names. ![]() Quote:
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You are a complete ****tard!
worth the ban EDIT - damn - it automatically stars it out! Calling me an insulting name as you have is really not a proper use of this forum in discussing a point of view. You need to restrain yourself, as I never insulted you. Big Ron saw nothing wrong in referring to black/African people with an offensive word. He variously claimed ingnorance and that it was a proper word of the times as he grew up and not racist. In a TV show, he was sent to the USA to learn a little bit about the origins of the word and to try to understand African American sensitivities regarding the offensive term. You might have asked me for more information before feeling the need to brand me a bastard. My parents were married before I was born, for your information. |
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Or people don't care cause it's irrelevant to them unlike the PC brigade. :sleep:
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when an elderly white woman sees a ginger haired person coming towards them in the subway they are less likely to clutch their bag that extra bit tighter as they often do when seeing a black person.
such are the detailed public reactions that many black people have to put up with every day. Some of them even feel compelled to take their tans to the street to protest against the poppy ones and support William the tanned . I see them walk every summer in their nice shiny dark orange brown uniforms. A reality that the popy ones have to face.
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Do you consider Big Ron to be racist?
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i really dont think the poster of this thread meant any harm by his question. its ridiculous to jump down his throat like this as i find it difficult to believe anyone would be offended by it. its not as if he even used an ugly word....just a dated one.
similarly ignorance regarding acceptable language regarding race betrays the likelihood that the person using a dated term doesn't spend much time in the company of black people, nor thinking or empathising much about (human) race issues |
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it implies that there is a superior foundation starting point of whiteness and that non-white skin is something extra, like coloured-in.
how doesnt it imply that coloured skin is the foundation starting point and that white people are inferior as they dont have it. |
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........ ignorance regarding acceptable language regarding race betrays the likelihood that the person using a dated term doesn't spend much time in the company of black people....... |
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doesn't spend much time in the company of black people
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, nor thinking or empathising much about (human) race issues
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what relevence does that have to changes in acceptable terminology?
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i dont know how to describe people, im frightened i offend someone
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Some of them even feel compelled to take their tans to the street to protest against the poppy ones and support William the tanned . I see them walk every summer in their nice shiny dark orange brown uniforms. A reality that the popy ones have to face.