Exactly, earlier this year I switched to using colored and when anybody bitches I always point tot he naacp. If they change their name I’ll think about changing my language.
Ironic since that would have been her legal ehtnicity in many African nations like South Africa for example. Trevor Noah the South African propagandists has colored on his ID.
Talking to leftists is a shell game where you have to guess which cup is hiding the approved words. I literally don't know how I'm supposed to describe black people in 2020. Is "black" acceptable?
Every day at 11 AM my county health department posts the latest COVID figures for the region. Maybe the colored blacks should do the same thing with approved language since it seems to change so FUCKING MUCH. SERIOUSLY. How big of a difference is it between saying "of color" and "colored????" It's practically the same fucking thing. CHRIST.
People have given me shit for using the term "Blacks" as a plural, same as just adding an S to the end of any other group, but just using Black is apparently fine.
My favorite personally is Pakistan not following the same rules as the rest of the -Stan countries. A person from Uzbekistan is an Uzbek, Kazakhstan a Kazakh, Tajikistan a Tajik, but call a person from Pakistan a Paki and you're committing a hate crime.
I still to this day will die fighting people that "Jap" is only a slur if you keep treating it as one and the historical context is foreign to everybody. Without it, its the same simple abbreviation as "Jew" and "Brit."
Like all "slurs", there is no correct answer. Its only a weapon to bludgeon people you don't like with. Otherwise none of them would exist. Most of them have no actual definition beyond "this word makes me feel bad" and so they only exist because of the power the "victim" chooses to give them.
Point is, its all a game and "marginalized" people deserve to be treated like the babies they are if they play these word games.
Of course they aren't aware. Their language doesn't even contain any of the same letters or sounds of the word for Japan or Japanese (Nihon and Nihongo if I recall). Its literally only foreigners who use the word to begin with.
And I'd respect the wishes of any of the surviving camp folk who wished me to avoid using the word (except George Takei), but otherwise their children only keep it alive for victim points and I give no shits about them.
Without it, its the same simple abbreviation as "Jew" and "Brit."
Speaking from experience here, jews and non-jews alike will selectively feign offense to this and "jewish" as well regardless of context depending on who is saying it. There is no truly safe word.
Not that I respect that abusive technique anymore.
The euphemism treadmill is a mechanism for regularly and arbitrarily destroying a random percentage of non-leftists using the primary weapon of leftists, which is language. Every few months or years, the left decides that a label has accrued too much negativity (or accuracy) and must be summarily retired. The delta between when this decision is made and when conservatives find out about it is the peripd of time during which leftists can snag the most conservative scalps. This delta is significantly widened if the rules are murky and incoherent, and so leftists endeavor to make them so.
Honestly what’s the difference? There is none. “Of colour” vs “coloured” ... my god it’s the definition of a distinction without a difference and just another cudgel to hit white people and non-kneelers with.
Technically, they believe that saying "person of" in front of the classifications is "person-first" language, which conveys proper respect for the ultimate value of the person who is being classified.
Of course, we're not speaking fucking Latin, so positional meaning isn't really the same. In English, you can reorder words much more frequently without appreciably altering meaning.
Plainly: this particular dynamic is just a trap for catching and destroying older conservatives.
If people first language was actually important they’d implement it for everybody. Person of Asian decent, person of whiteness, person who’s ancestors lived in America before people of whiteness arrived, etc... You never see this kind of language because it doesn’t matter.
How come NAACP isn't canceled for not being NAAPOC?
Is the United Negro College Fund still a thing?
Exactly, earlier this year I switched to using colored and when anybody bitches I always point tot he naacp. If they change their name I’ll think about changing my language.
Ironic since that would have been her legal ehtnicity in many African nations like South Africa for example. Trevor Noah the South African propagandists has colored on his ID.
Colored: Anyone that is part black and something else, especially white and Indians
Talking to leftists is a shell game where you have to guess which cup is hiding the approved words. I literally don't know how I'm supposed to describe black people in 2020. Is "black" acceptable?
Every day at 11 AM my county health department posts the latest COVID figures for the region. Maybe the colored blacks should do the same thing with approved language since it seems to change so FUCKING MUCH. SERIOUSLY. How big of a difference is it between saying "of color" and "colored????" It's practically the same fucking thing. CHRIST.
People have given me shit for using the term "Blacks" as a plural, same as just adding an S to the end of any other group, but just using Black is apparently fine.
My favorite personally is Pakistan not following the same rules as the rest of the -Stan countries. A person from Uzbekistan is an Uzbek, Kazakhstan a Kazakh, Tajikistan a Tajik, but call a person from Pakistan a Paki and you're committing a hate crime.
Wouldn't it be a Pak?
i think this is because Indians are very racist against pakis and bangladeshis so the hate being called pakis
I still to this day will die fighting people that "Jap" is only a slur if you keep treating it as one and the historical context is foreign to everybody. Without it, its the same simple abbreviation as "Jew" and "Brit."
Like all "slurs", there is no correct answer. Its only a weapon to bludgeon people you don't like with. Otherwise none of them would exist. Most of them have no actual definition beyond "this word makes me feel bad" and so they only exist because of the power the "victim" chooses to give them.
Point is, its all a game and "marginalized" people deserve to be treated like the babies they are if they play these word games.
Japs, in Japan, aren't even aware that they're supposed to be offended by "Jap"
It is very much an Asian-American issue, given FDR literally put the Japs in camps.
Of course they aren't aware. Their language doesn't even contain any of the same letters or sounds of the word for Japan or Japanese (Nihon and Nihongo if I recall). Its literally only foreigners who use the word to begin with.
And I'd respect the wishes of any of the surviving camp folk who wished me to avoid using the word (except George Takei), but otherwise their children only keep it alive for victim points and I give no shits about them.
Speaking from experience here, jews and non-jews alike will selectively feign offense to this and "jewish" as well regardless of context depending on who is saying it. There is no truly safe word.
Not that I respect that abusive technique anymore.
SHUT IT DOWN!!!!!
Yeah, I've seen the arguments that its offensive to use. But then they turn around and use it themselves.
Then again, what isn't offensive to the Jews whenever they deem it so?
Jewish: Usually ok
A Jew: Sometimes ok
The Jews: Literally Hitler
"Peoples front of Judea" vs "Judean People's Front". Obviously two totally different things!
The euphemism treadmill is a mechanism for regularly and arbitrarily destroying a random percentage of non-leftists using the primary weapon of leftists, which is language. Every few months or years, the left decides that a label has accrued too much negativity (or accuracy) and must be summarily retired. The delta between when this decision is made and when conservatives find out about it is the peripd of time during which leftists can snag the most conservative scalps. This delta is significantly widened if the rules are murky and incoherent, and so leftists endeavor to make them so.
Nailed it. We really need a plurality of public figures to call this game out so we can all get on with our lives.
Gotta have them coloreds
If they can say people of color why not colored? Pretty much sounds the same
because cloured is mixed blood, in South Africa was a racial designation. I guess US has a different meaning.
How do you even accidentally say that? Does anyone under 70 even use that term?
Honestly what’s the difference? There is none. “Of colour” vs “coloured” ... my god it’s the definition of a distinction without a difference and just another cudgel to hit white people and non-kneelers with.
Technically, they believe that saying "person of" in front of the classifications is "person-first" language, which conveys proper respect for the ultimate value of the person who is being classified.
Of course, we're not speaking fucking Latin, so positional meaning isn't really the same. In English, you can reorder words much more frequently without appreciably altering meaning.
Plainly: this particular dynamic is just a trap for catching and destroying older conservatives.
If people first language was actually important they’d implement it for everybody. Person of Asian decent, person of whiteness, person who’s ancestors lived in America before people of whiteness arrived, etc... You never see this kind of language because it doesn’t matter.
"Colored" was used to mark things for blacks during segregation.
Colored
So I can actually understand the dislike of it.
Wow, downvoting a verifiable fact. This place is officially full of retards.
So then why say people of color if it’s so offensive?
What the fuck are you talking about? The left almost exclusively refers to minorities as "colored" these days.
That's just the thing: "of color" is the correct term while saying "colored" can get you fired. It's a clown world.
I know. I don't buy into leftist bullshit - colored and of color are identical, idiots saying otherwise doesn't make it so.
depending where you live coloured = half caste = mixed blood
= mulatto?
i think mulatto is more american, half caste is what we used when i grew up. Of course both are now banned
Crack, you're smoking it.
So, what's the term for minorities, then?
animals
Oh.
People of Color (PoC) / Minority.
The colour in question is always brown though isn't it?
White people are 'of colour' too...stupid fucking bullshit.
So literally colored people. Are you mentally ill? Do you listen to yourself? Go read the previous posts you posted and then come back.
well where i lived in my youth nigger, paki, coon etc where just words to describe blacks not used as a derogatory term.
Coloured was used as a derogatory term.
Paki is not derogatory either. It's the same format for every -stan citizen. Afghanistan - Afghani.
Fuck you people are stupid.
Find me one case of the left referring to them as "colored" and not being destroyed, go ahead, I'll wait.
It’s literally the top comment. NAACP. National Association? for the Advancement if COLORED PEOPLE
lazy fuckers who moan about everything
Of color is close to colored.