Another Word We Shouldn't Use?

[Barsel]

A complaint has been made that Eamonn Holmes used to word 'uppity' when describing the Duchess of Sussex episode at Wimbledon and now ITV have banned the word! Who knew it was racist? I didn't and obviously neither did Eamonn..

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/eamonn-holmes-in-race-storm-as-itv-reprimands-presenter-for-calling-meghan-markle-uppity-because-the-word-was-used-in-the-19th-century-to-insult-black-people/ar-BBXeBtg?li=AAnZ9Ug

[Barsel]

From the article.
//Historically, the word ‘uppity’ was used in the US in the 19th Century as an insult to black people who ‘didn’t know their place’.//

[jno]

the word was used in England 200 years before it was used in America by somebody to describe a black person

if Holmes had used it to describe a white person nobody would have complained.

But he didn't.

[CrapAtCryptics]

While I was working there was a case at the court were a teacher had called 2 of his pupils n*g N*gs - he turned up with a dictionary which stated that the meaning of the phrase was "silly people" - he invited the prosecution to prove he meant anything else - the case was thrown out.

[Barsel]

Exactly jno BA for you. x

[naomi24]

//> Colour: Brown, sometimes Tuscan or Mahogany

Oh dear, what an unfortunate coincidence ... //

Not to mention purple. A prime example of finding offence where none exists.

[pixie374]

If it was "only" used for black people now, fair enough. But it isn't.

[Spicerack]

It's funny how some people buy into all the PC ***, isn't it?
It's as though they can't think for themselves.

[CrapAtCryptics]

i`m inclined to think they see themselves as professional fault finders so they can feel important - personally, to quote Boris, They come across as onanists.

[pastafreak]

According to wiktionary...

Etymology

Fanciful extension of up +‎ -y (-denoting a state or quality). First attested in Uncle Remus by Joel Chandler Harris to describe Jack Sparrer (Jack Sparrow) who tattled on Br'er Rabbit (see quotations below). Compare biggity, uppish.

No mention of other historical usage.
But every other definition that I've looked at mentions its usage in 19th c America as derogatory towards slaves.

[anotheoldgit]

I get fed up with constantly being told what I can not say in case it offends black people.
Yes horrible things happened to these people but that was in the 19th century so why continue to blame us living in the 21st century, are the Germans and the Japanese still condemned for how they treated others more recently during WW2?
As regards skin colour would it be allowed to insult the previous President of the USA in the same way that President Trump is because of his skin tone ie orange face?

[pixie374]

No, aog. Trump is deliberately and artificially orange. It's a choice.
But yes, I do think it is a shame, I've had a similar conversation on a different thread quite recently, that we now need to start consciously registering skin colour, instead of treating people as individuals.
The current fashion seems to be making giant leaps backwards in ever way, as much as possible.

[Zacs-Master]

‘I get fed up with constantly being told what I can not say in case it offends black people’

You don’t seem to take any notice!

[shoota]

Virtue signalling is the new black.

[Zacs-Master]

And the president trump thing was explained to you in 2017. But it didn’t seem to sink in.
https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1538955.html

[pixie374]

I can never work out what "virtue signalling" is even supposed to mean tbh xx

[Togo]

“It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.”

George Orwell, 1984

[shoota]

Uppity people getting incensed over nothing....

[CrapAtCryptics]

Does that mean they will censor Blazing Saddles?

[horselady]

Oh blimey, I use the uppity word a lot about hoity-toity people who think themselves better than others. Had no idea of the origin. I shall, however, continue to use it, so there.

[emmie]

stupid and irrelevant, the ruling that is...