We are supposed to call them "people of color." Why not "colored people?"

I've been called a wop, guinea, dago, goomba, mick, kraut, **********, gringo, mutt and more. I have a pair much like you do.

 

Let me see . . . What color is your car? It's white. What color is your house? It's white. I see you wear white colored socks with your sneakers. White colored swim trunks show off my tan. My skin is white so I guess I'm a colored man. See how silly liberals are and how some people are too sensitive. "Beam me up Scotty, there's no intelligent life down here."

 

Yeah, I do it all the time.

 

Sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me.

 

We are supposed to call them "people of color." Why not "colored people?"

We did that back in the 1950's when blacks didn't like being called black. Like everything in the world of social issues, there is never any satisfaction.

 

Obviously I do not think it is rude for me to call anyone an Oriental. I first leaned that Oriental girls existed when I was six years old. I remember thinking, "Some white girls are pretty. Some are not. All Oriental girls are pretty."

My two best friends in high school were Orientals.

 

Oh poo!

 

What ethnicity are? Are you 'colored'? If not, you don't really have any business telling me to call anyone that... Or, at least, I don't have any business listening to you about it.

 

Let's ask @Nightmare515 his opinion on the colored reference. I'll bet it bounces off him like a gnat off a battleship.

 

The first step to force social change is to change the language by changing the meaning of a word, then using social punishment to enforce it.

 

I remember when being gay meant you’re happy. Then it was applied to gays and they considered it an insult. Today being called gay is proper and the second letter in LGB.

Same thing with colored and the NAACP.

 

Total strangers call you those things do they? That seems…suspect.

 

So now it only applies to strangers?

 

Some social injustices have been less amenable to legislative amelioration than might have been hoped. Equality is not easily achieved.

 

No, it is obvious, when someone needs to gratuitously object to Martin Luther King being called "doctor," because of some supposed complaint about his doctorate thesis-- which is completely beside the point they are discussing-- that person is carrying around some "issues."

However, if you want to use that standard to judge others as using as hominems, the least you could do would be to not do the same thing, yourself:

Conservative Democrat said: ↑
Negro, Negro, Negro. Oriental, Oriental, Oriental.

Get used to it.

Those who get upset by the use of these words have too much time on their hands.


How is that not attributing others' "opinions to characteristics about (them)?"

 

What gives you the authority to dictate to others what they are not allowed to regard as offensive?

 

The question is, as opposed to what? No one must use the term "people of color," though if one is speaking of more than a single people (black and brown, and perhaps "red," and even "yellow"), then it is a very time saving and convenient term. You could use the word "minorities," but that would be less specific: it would also include religious and sexual minority groups.

 

See my earlier post to @Conservative Democrat, it ain’t the 1900s anymore it’s now and it’s an outdated term.

 

Dickhead. Fossil. Moron.

Get used to it. You know, since we’re playing the name game now.

 

How can it be outdated when we're still using it and ya'll know what it means? I'm glad some folks think the word is merely outdated and not racist.

 

Since you’re probably old enough to remember the Black Plague personally, I don’t think anyone really could hurt you.

 

YOU and some other ancient folks are still using it on a forum with known racists. The average person is not.

 

I think the reason for your attitude about the term, is that you don't accept what most do: that, in a general sense, non white people are treated differently than white people, in the U.S., and elsewhere. So that is the basis of grouping them together. Your perspective would have the same objection to the term "non white," which I just used. You seem to want to eliminate any reference to a person's skin color as if that made no difference, whatsoever. But that is just ignoring a fact, which will not cause that fact to no longer exist. It is a widely accepted principle, that the first step in addressing a problem, is being able to acknowledge its existence.

 

Goomba, eh? Like the monsters from the Super Mario games? Fascinating.

 

I think overly melanin challenged people should take a page out of the LGBTQ+ crowd and call themselves the new BNAAN+.

(Black,Nubian,African American, Negroes+)