looney
Banned
- Jul 7, 2003
- 15,652
It's not a case of being fashionable. I just don't like the term. I think it's incredibly dated and yes, it makes me uncomfortable. I'd wouldn't call anyone that. One of my friends is mixed race and he's always said he hates that term more than almost anything else. He describes himself as mixed race or black. "Coloured" was perpetrated particularly by the apartheid regime in SA as a means of categorising people...can you not see why people might find that a tiny bit offensive? To me, it's a real throwback to an age where people were far more casually racist, or at least more openly so.
I realise not everyone who uses it understands why it upsets, which is why I've explained it now.
Yes thanks. But in my opinion it is your Opinion. I see nothing wrong with the term.
Take the arguments about Obama being Black, Ive had leftists patronising me saying that it is the USA's definition of race, ie Black+white=Black. not stopping to think thats the definition the Far right also prefer.
To me thats offensive, since when have the yanks been experts at race relations?
I would not respond with a patronising comment like "Did I just wake up in 1980?" as you did, I would question the use and possibly offer an alternative.