A 'coloured Woman'

[fender62]

so you cannot call a coloured woman coloured, what about a women of colour or black woman.
im lost on this arguement, looking for offence when none was meant, no wonder blacks cry were victims...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6782569/Tory-Amber-Rudd-caught-race-row-calls-Labours-Diane-Abbott-coloured-woman.html

[Theland]

Abbott is a snowflake.
Sorry, a sootflake.

[fender62]

but you get from some..we are women of colour mmm so do we now say for example in a shop, i was served by a woman of colour.
so some women of colour diane abbott does not like to be called a woman of colour, she is not caucasian, how about negroid, what flavour of political colour correctness is correct then. or err that mad woman.

[Peter Pedant]

oops have I missed anything good ?

you ask them what they want to be called - my relatives want british afrocarribean
they speak like trevor mcdonald and the british bit is as impt

[one wished to revise her roots and went to her grandma's in Jamaica ( no she went of her own accord ) and lasted two weeks - top of a hill and no sanitation ) ]

and yes they insult each other by calling ea other the n word

[Theland]

Abbott herself is not whiter than white.

[Peter Pedant]

fender you are pretending or have forgotten we have ( as other societies do ) taboo words

I fall about when americans refer to the sovereign as Queen of England

some ar eoffensive ( and others just funny)

[archibaldy]

A decent explanation in the link below, along with more acceptable terms for those genuinely interested.

"Historically, the word is associated with segregation, especially in the US, where black people where kept separate from white people - on public transport, or at drinking fountains which were described as "coloured-only" for example."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/30999175/warning-why-using-the-term-coloured-is-offensive

[sanmac]

It's kind of ironic to note that the NAACP itself uses the term 'colored'.

[EDDIE51]

The correct term is 'Afro-Carribean '

[naomi24]

// Referring to someone as 'coloured' was a serious disciplinary offence (possibly resulting in dismissal) when I was teaching back in the 70s and 80s. (Any pupil using that term would certainly have been in a great deal of trouble).

Many black people regard the term 'coloured' as equivalent to using the n-word. If you haven't yet caught on just how offensive it is I can only assume that you've been living in an (all-white?) bubble for the past few decades.//

And yet The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), a well established Civil Rights organisation is alive and thriving in the United States, No wonder we poor, white, ignorant honkies get confused.

[fiction-factory]

Maybe it's okay for 'coloured people' to use that term when talking to each other - just like the N word which appears in many rap songs by black artists as a term of respect

[sanmac]

Naomi, That's what I was alluding to at 2139. When the NAACP was founded, that was, I suppose, the preferred term as opposed to *** or nigra.

[sanmac]

What I meant was 'colored' being the preferred term as opposed to the other two.

[Ellipsis]

Maybe there's an app that can be continuously updated to tell us the words we're allowed to use.

[-Talbot-]

maggiebee
Why is there any need in this day and age to describe anyone either by their colour or ethnicity?



It's a handy bit of information for when the police are looking out for a particular suspect.

Also if I were looking for someone in a room full of people and that someone was Chinese ( but I'm not aware of this) in a room full of black Africans the best and most efficient way of pointing him out is to say
'He's the Chinese fellow over there'

No?

[-Talbot-]

FF
(although people of colour is I think acceptable to black- or is it non-white- people)



I think describing anyone as non-white is wrong.
That definitely sounds like white people are looking down their nose at others

[Ellipsis]

Or, as in Amber Rudd's case, talking about how black people are discriminated against ... that's very hard if you can't say "black people". Unless you happen to be great at Taboo.

[vetuste_ennemi]

Confessions of an "Old Atheist", not a new one.

Hitchens didn't get it right in "God is not Great" with his false defence of twentieth century secularism (i.e Stalin and Mao), and his refusal to treat evoltionary France. Dawkins, unlike Hitchens, doesn't appear to be widely educated outisde his own speciality.

I have an abhorrence of secularism in its modern and pervasive neo-Marxist form because of its hostility to all of the West's cultural inheritance.

[vetuste_ennemi]

Was that a Freudian slurp or a malapropism, saying "evolutionary" France rather than [i]"revolutionary"[i]?

[vetuste_ennemi]

Apologies to Fender for cluttering up his thread with post meant for elsewhere.