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A 'coloured Woman'
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...
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im lost on this arguement, looking for offence when none was meant, no wonder blacks cry were victims...
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The problem is.... black people are not black, white people are not white, olive skinned is not olive and the Chinese are not yellow!!
I am happy to call coloured people coloured, I don't say it offensively and I don't mean it that way. If you get offended by it, that's your problem!! sometimes people really need to get a life!!
I am happy to call coloured people coloured, I don't say it offensively and I don't mean it that way. If you get offended by it, that's your problem!! sometimes people really need to get a life!!
I see the BBC is trying to get use of normal words banned then. Ought not be their agenda. "In the UK the term is, at best, seen as old fashioned and "something your gran might say"." Utter balderdash. In the UK the term is, at best, seen as the present day normal polite way to refer to those who have naturally darker skin that most Europeans, for example. It was deliberately used because folk accepted other terms might be derogatory, and as such is something anyone and everyone might say".
Then it goes on to discuss America but fails to note that an unoffensive word utilized for an embarassing/wrong purpose doesn't make the word offensive. If one can speak of coloured crayons or coloured patterns one can equally speak of coloured people, knowing there is equally no offence: and anyone who then takes offence should ask themselves why they opt to, and why, as a result, they are trying to belittle decent folk and make them uncomfortable and wary of saying anything.
Then it goes on to discuss America but fails to note that an unoffensive word utilized for an embarassing/wrong purpose doesn't make the word offensive. If one can speak of coloured crayons or coloured patterns one can equally speak of coloured people, knowing there is equally no offence: and anyone who then takes offence should ask themselves why they opt to, and why, as a result, they are trying to belittle decent folk and make them uncomfortable and wary of saying anything.
Shades of brown----- cream, fawn, beige, sepia, burnt sienna , umber, raw umber, n***** brown, chocolate , coffee, Probably lots more.
Maybe we should carry colour charts.
I am getting a bit cheesed off with people saying ---It's offensive to call someone coloured. It's something an old person might have said back in the 50s. I never heard anyone say coloured back then . It was always Black .
Maybe we should carry colour charts.
I am getting a bit cheesed off with people saying ---It's offensive to call someone coloured. It's something an old person might have said back in the 50s. I never heard anyone say coloured back then . It was always Black .
Trevor Phillips take on this:
"As the public face of the EHRC for over six years, I was forced to spend many hours on TV and radio, wearily opining on whether it was racist to use the word ‘coloured’ (Amber Rudd can be reassured it isn’t, and people of colour have many better things to be offended about);"
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"As the public face of the EHRC for over six years, I was forced to spend many hours on TV and radio, wearily opining on whether it was racist to use the word ‘coloured’ (Amber Rudd can be reassured it isn’t, and people of colour have many better things to be offended about);"
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RATTER - // I am happy to call coloured people coloured, I don't say it offensively and I don't mean it that way. If you get offended by it, that's your problem!! sometimes people really need to get a life!! //
I think a lot of people would find your attitude to be somewhat arrogant.
To live in a society where you and you alone decide how you will address people, and you will take any offence as their fault and their defect is to live without due respect to other people - repsect which I am sure you would wish to be shown in turn to you.
In order to receive respect, you need to understand it, and offer it.
It would appear that in your position, you are going to be short of both, which you will probably say does not bother you, but I would wonder if you are being entirely truthful, and as thick-skinned as you so proudly suggest you are.
I think a lot of people would find your attitude to be somewhat arrogant.
To live in a society where you and you alone decide how you will address people, and you will take any offence as their fault and their defect is to live without due respect to other people - repsect which I am sure you would wish to be shown in turn to you.
In order to receive respect, you need to understand it, and offer it.
It would appear that in your position, you are going to be short of both, which you will probably say does not bother you, but I would wonder if you are being entirely truthful, and as thick-skinned as you so proudly suggest you are.
