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Is this terminology racist?
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http://www.thesun.co....hat-it-is-racist.html
Does such ridiculous over-sensitive rulings such as this only go to create more divisions between the races?
It is as ridiculous as saying that sending someone to Coventry is offensive to the people of Coventry.
Does such ridiculous over-sensitive rulings such as this only go to create more divisions between the races?
It is as ridiculous as saying that sending someone to Coventry is offensive to the people of Coventry.
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SP, no, it didn’t make me racist - but it made me angry. We’ve now reached a stage where little can be said or done without it being misconstrued by those who wish to appear to be politically correct. If anyone needs desensitisin
07:15 Tue 08th May 2012
Black also has positive connotations
Many British people are proud of the achievements of The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment)
In Japan(black) is a symbol of nobility and experience, as opposed to shiro (white), which symbolizes serfdom, youth, and naiveté. The black belt is a highest grade in many martial arts, where a white belt is a rank-less belt that comes before all other belts.
Many British people are proud of the achievements of The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment)
In Japan(black) is a symbol of nobility and experience, as opposed to shiro (white), which symbolizes serfdom, youth, and naiveté. The black belt is a highest grade in many martial arts, where a white belt is a rank-less belt that comes before all other belts.
The whole bloody country is totally obsessed with racism!!! Everywhere you look these day its "Racism racism racism!!" You open a news paper and you get racism.... you watch the news and its racism. We cant say this, we cant say that because we might offend. We cant do this and we cant do that because we might offend.
If anything bad, no matter how trivial, happens to a black man its racism. And the most annoying thing about it is, half the time its not the blacks complaining. Its pathetic moronic white do-gooders!!
If anything bad, no matter how trivial, happens to a black man its racism. And the most annoying thing about it is, half the time its not the blacks complaining. Its pathetic moronic white do-gooders!!
There's another way of looking at this story - there's always been a quirk of the English language where many words/phrase containing the word 'black' are negative (blacklist, blackballed, blackmail, giving black looks).
However, the term 'black' meaning 'of *** origin' only really took off in late 50s America, around the time of the Civil Rights campaigns.
Because the origins of some words and phrases have been lost to the mists of time, they appear when in fact they are entirely innocent.
However, the term 'black' meaning 'of *** origin' only really took off in late 50s America, around the time of the Civil Rights campaigns.
Because the origins of some words and phrases have been lost to the mists of time, they appear when in fact they are entirely innocent.
The neologism 'whitelist' as the opposite of blacklist is a false formation.
Black in blacklist (a word first recorded in 1620) is there because we have long used 'black' as a negative term:'Things are not as black as they seem', 'she gave him black looks' ,'black comedy', 'blackleg' 'black market'. Try substituting 'white' in those. They make no opposite sense; we wouldn't say them because 'white' as a colour has not had the positive meanings that black has as a negative.
Not difficult to see why. Night and darkness, lack of daylight, is seen as negative, depressing, bad, associated with death.
Black for a skin colour is only one of its uses. But people have been defined by it as they have by white. Since 'white' is a term for white-skinned people and black for black-skinned and white is not the opposite of white in most contexts (see above) 'whitelist' sounds racist. But it tells more about the sensitivity of those who would ban it than about any actual racist thought it conveys.
It ought to be banned on the ground that it is not a good formation, not a proper opposite, in English, of blacklist, not for any other reason.
Black in blacklist (a word first recorded in 1620) is there because we have long used 'black' as a negative term:'Things are not as black as they seem', 'she gave him black looks' ,'black comedy', 'blackleg' 'black market'. Try substituting 'white' in those. They make no opposite sense; we wouldn't say them because 'white' as a colour has not had the positive meanings that black has as a negative.
Not difficult to see why. Night and darkness, lack of daylight, is seen as negative, depressing, bad, associated with death.
Black for a skin colour is only one of its uses. But people have been defined by it as they have by white. Since 'white' is a term for white-skinned people and black for black-skinned and white is not the opposite of white in most contexts (see above) 'whitelist' sounds racist. But it tells more about the sensitivity of those who would ban it than about any actual racist thought it conveys.
It ought to be banned on the ground that it is not a good formation, not a proper opposite, in English, of blacklist, not for any other reason.
Not forgetting black clouds.
Like most of this nonsense it is a matter of opinion since there is no sensible definition. What is acceptable or even preferred one year is considered awful the next.
I take it the heads of police were just having a wind-up, or maybe the reporters were. Is it April the first again already?
Like most of this nonsense it is a matter of opinion since there is no sensible definition. What is acceptable or even preferred one year is considered awful the next.
I take it the heads of police were just having a wind-up, or maybe the reporters were. Is it April the first again already?
thats stupid! I bet those police chiefs are all white men, theres too many people like that now, 'cant sing ba ba black sheep, cant say black bin bag, its a refuse sack' jeez the list goes on, too many doo-gooders. My brother has fallen out with me and stopped talking to me because I told my sister I had a dream where a guy from the congo lied to her about his age - long story short, he told me I'm racist and 'have a deep-seared hatred for anyone you deem to be foreign' I showed all of my foreign friends, they thought he was crazy. Its way over the top now, soon we wont be able to say 'black' it will be noir........but then again, this was in The Sun, so dont believe everything
http://www.dailymail....racter-womaniser.html
It is catching, even our Maiden Aunt's favourite radio show is up for criticism, this time for stereotyping black males.
One would have thought in a non visual medium such as radio, it would make little difference if one happened to be black or white.
It is catching, even our Maiden Aunt's favourite radio show is up for criticism, this time for stereotyping black males.
One would have thought in a non visual medium such as radio, it would make little difference if one happened to be black or white.
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