Pretty pink fairy
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it isn't ....... couldn't make it up could you !
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"coloured people" Poyet quote....
- Thread starter brunswick
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I think the new PC version should use a hyphen as it does in the States, connecting ones heritage with their nationality...African-English.
PC run amok...and we probably shouldn't be calling those poor lads from Crawley "dirty northern bastards" either. Not nice.
Phat Baz 68
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- Apr 16, 2011
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20- 30 years ago everyone was told to use the word "coloured" as Black people then found being called "Black" offensive !!
Far better than words like N***er or C**n and the like !!
I think everyone has been racist occasionally wether your white/black/brown skinned etc etc or had thoughts of it in their minds wether you like to admit it or not !
Theres plenty of people that abuse the French/ Germans/Spanish/Italians etc etc also racist but no one ever seems to get pulled up for that do they
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Far better than words like N***er or C**n and the like !!
I think everyone has been racist occasionally wether your white/black/brown skinned etc etc or had thoughts of it in their minds wether you like to admit it or not !
Theres plenty of people that abuse the French/ Germans/Spanish/Italians etc etc also racist but no one ever seems to get pulled up for that do they
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The Grockle
Formally Croydon Seagull
I'm sure people still use it in conversation but it does cause offence to black people, i'd be very careful not to refer to a black people as coloured where I live, not that i'd really describe it as being racist.
chez
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Ⓩ-Ⓐ-Ⓜ-Ⓞ-Ⓡ-Ⓐ;4579206 said:Do you actually now what it means? It's actually spelt half-caste, castus being the latin for pure. It basically means "half pure" which I think can be considered a racist and derogatory term.
Well if thats the original meaning then I'll bet only 1 in a million people know it and that includes the half casts themselves. To the majority being half cast simply means having a skin tone half way between the two, and yes half cast people DO refer to themselves as "half casts"
amexee
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Ⓩ-Ⓐ-Ⓜ-Ⓞ-Ⓡ-Ⓐ;4579206 said:
Not really, the gene pool has to mix, look at some very close communities to see what 'pure' results in!!!
chez
Johnny Byrne-The Greatest
How does it. It just means you're half way to being black or white for example. Nothing suggests one being better than the other.
The Grockle
Formally Croydon Seagull
I wouldn't say it's a racist especially if there's no intent, it's just seen as being very offensive.
Withdean11
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But in a way, they are neither 'pure' white of black. So strictly true
Pretty pink fairy
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rubbish, taken out of context, you can see plenty of white girls with a black fella and a mixed race childⓏ-Ⓐ-Ⓜ-Ⓞ-Ⓡ-Ⓐ;4579206 said:
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racism can f*** off!
i was called white boy by some asians at my school. what did i do? nothing! why? because i am a white boy FFS!
what would they have done if i had called them black/brown? exactly! racism is a f***ing joke and its all one way!
i was called white boy by some asians at my school. what did i do? nothing! why? because i am a white boy FFS!
what would they have done if i had called them black/brown? exactly! racism is a f***ing joke and its all one way!
The Grockle
Formally Croydon Seagull
I suggest anyone with half a brain knows what it means....no offence intended ofcourse.
Goldstone Rapper
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As far as I'm concerned, 'black' or 'coloured' is fine as long as you are using the term in a descriptive rather than a pejorative way. That's the most important thing and that's how Gus is using it.
However, I think 'black' is used more today as it's generally considered best to call people what they themselves would like to be identified as. Since the last 1960s, most people in the UK and US who used to identify themselves as 'coloured' began to identify themselves as black.
(Part of the reason 'coloured' fell into disuse as a term, apart from it being contaminated by its use within racial abuse, is that it was considered to present 'coloured' people as being of a colour, subjective, whereas it defined white folk as being somehow 'un-coloured', a standard, the norm of society, objective reality, untainted by being associated with the particularities of a race)
However, I think 'black' is used more today as it's generally considered best to call people what they themselves would like to be identified as. Since the last 1960s, most people in the UK and US who used to identify themselves as 'coloured' began to identify themselves as black.
(Part of the reason 'coloured' fell into disuse as a term, apart from it being contaminated by its use within racial abuse, is that it was considered to present 'coloured' people as being of a colour, subjective, whereas it defined white folk as being somehow 'un-coloured', a standard, the norm of society, objective reality, untainted by being associated with the particularities of a race)
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Hove / Παρος
It's a fact mate, half-caste means half pure. That is where the term originated from, like it or not.
Withdean11
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Racism has been blown out of the water in this country imo, and very one-sided.
DIRK STEELE
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Getting there.... but as you can see from the Mick Jaggar quote above... in the late 60's and during the 70s the word 'black' was considered to be offensive and 'coloured' was deemed the polite usage. But yeh my brain is too old to keep up with all this shit....
sir albion
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Christ you're spot on as i was called it many times and i didn't even batter an eye lid
Pretty pink fairy
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i know,plenty of it about .Ⓩ-Ⓐ-Ⓜ-Ⓞ-Ⓡ-Ⓐ;4579239 said:
Withdean11
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It's not considered racist if a non-white says a racist remark against a white person. Why? Because Whites naturally feel guilty about the whole slave thing