Since “negro” is the word for “black” in some other languages, is that OK now, too?
Sorry for using the racist “OK”.
Oh goody!
I’ll just use the anthropologistt’s term, negroid.
Go back to Negro’s?
“Othering”. So we are all beginning to accept Ebonics here as legitimate language? Okay. But let’s be real: they aren’t trying to avoid “othering”, they are happily embedding it into society. We are now required to “other” each other as we desperately seek our own “other” minority category and learn to point fingers at “others” around us. Intersectionality is the mode now even though, taken to its extreme, it leads to individualism which is verboten. We must follow the societal lead of identifying with certain minorities until that minority begins to get power and/or its members begin to see commonality with other groups, at which point another “other” is identified as favored. The goal is not sensitivity to others but armed camps of ever-burgeoning but ever-helpless “others” which require government protection to flourish.
Whatever they are being called, now, always becomes “offensive”.
They haven’t figured out that they wake up as the same person they were, yesterday.
All that’s left is “those people”
STOP allowing the LEFT to redefine our language. It does us no favor as it allows them to define the dialog and to trot out the micro-aggression of using last week’s words! They, the LEFT, control the majority of our media so, yes, they thus have the ability to SNOW (white?) us with their chosen, weaponized, lexicon. BUT WE DO NOT HAVE TO PARTICIPATE! Shun their weapons, deprecate their efforts, never be niggardly with YOUR ENGLISH!
Congressional Black Caucus
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
United Negro College Fund
Association of African American Museums
Has anybody yet come up with the definitive list of which of the terms used in the names of the organizations above are offensive, and how the offending parties are to be canceled for their use of words that are politically incorrect?
It’s the American part they find offensive?
So’ moolinyan‘ ??? What??
Unless, of course, the caller is black. Then, anything is ok.
Big media will continue their practice of not providing any description or photos of suspects who are, well you know.
I have two black children. We use “black” when referring to race, and “African-American” when referring to ethnicity. They also know there is nothing offensive about the terms “negro” or “colored”, though “nigger” in this century is always meant to be a slur. Most of the time we don’t think or talk about it at all.
But referring to Whites as “Crackers,” “Hillbillies,” “inbreds,” “terrorists,” or “evil” - is A-OK.
Ain’t no way I would send a kid to Brandeis...
Maybe we should use “Melanin-Enhanced Americans” or “Melanin-Rich Americans” for blacks and “Melanin-Deficient Americans” or “Melanin-Poor Americans” for whites.
And they recommend using white with a lower case “w”. What about my ancestral roots?
So I guess “Spear Chucker” is out. /SARC
Several years ago, a black 19-year-old phoned in to the Rush Limbaugh show and said that he did not like to be called black because that was not his skin color and did not like African-American because he felt no connection with Africa. He told Rush that he preferred to be called a Negro.
Hyphenated anything has always been done and was meant to say you’re not a real American...