Nipotism?
Labour frontbencher Diane Abbott "coloured".
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Nipotism?
Why is Magnolia posting on your account?
What a disturbing thought
Admit it, you liked it.
The point I'm making is that coloured is a word that as gone out of fashion. There wasn't anything sinister to it. At one time calling people black was offensive too.
When I was young yes because in the 80s thats what people said. I suspect it came from the caste system that is alive and well in other cultures. But when I grew up and times changed I call those people mixed race.
There seems to be a rush to attribute sinister meanings behind someone incorrectly using a word that as gone out of fashion.
It's like if tomorow the law changed so that people had to drive on the right hand side of the road and a couple of people forgot and drove on the left side suddenly there is a witch hunt about their motives for doing it. The simple answer is they forgot. I'm not fan of Rudd, particularly in her current and previous jobs in the government. But the media jump on every little mistake and hype up the worse case scenario.
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The term coloured or brown is offensive...however black or white is not.
I don't think anyone in the world is black are they? only different shades of brown........strange world we live in
Then again, I don't think anyone is white either.
I don't think anyone in the world is black are they? only different shades of brown........strange world we live in
Then again, I don't think anyone is white either.
If a word goes out of fashion because it’s become increasingly racist, sexist, xenophobic in general.
Stop using it, stop trying to validate it as some pitiful nostalgia from a dead era. End of story.
I’ve never once used the racist denigrations for shops run by Chinese or perceived Pakistani people, it’s not funny, it’s not kind, it’s not because ‘people have always said it, so I’m alright’. It’s not defendable.
If someone says it around me I’m going to get a permanently soured opinion of them. As it confirms they don’t want to think about what comes out of their meat flaps and probably has worse opinions.
Stop using it, stop trying to validate it as some pitiful nostalgia from a dead era. End of story.
I’ve never once used the racist denigrations for shops run by Chinese or perceived Pakistani people, it’s not funny, it’s not kind, it’s not because ‘people have always said it, so I’m alright’. It’s not defendable.
If someone says it around me I’m going to get a permanently soured opinion of them. As it confirms they don’t want to think about what comes out of their meat flaps and probably has worse opinions.
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+1. I was thinking the same reading through the thread. I also think there needs to be an element of whether there was any true negative intention to a phrase said before jumping feet first into the hand wringing.
I know eh?? Colour me surprised...oops I think I just offended people generally with that comments.
It’s a typical labrot perpetually triggered thread as per usual :/.
It’s called the dictionary.
I do find it funny how I was made an 'honorary coloured' by my friends in high school (I was one of three white kids in a class of 30).
Pretty fly for a white guy or something I guess.
Ps. Coloured is an acceptable term in South Africa when describing mixed-race peeps.
Pretty fly for a white guy or something I guess.
Ps. Coloured is an acceptable term in South Africa when describing mixed-race peeps.
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according to the dulux colour chart, I'm coloured