nallen wrote:riverrock wrote:Coloured (OK in USA, bad in UK)?
Not OK in the USA!
(https://www.chicagotribune.com/columns/dahleen-glanton/ct-dahleen-glanton-colored-email-reading-list-20200304-utx7geiwm5hupa3t7w6xr3xqn4-story.html)
Ah - so this is another case in point - an example of a phrase OK for that group of people to call themselves, but not white people to call them that?
eg, one of the biggest campaigning organisations is National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (point made in that article but not discussed).
Its impossible to keep up unless you are embedded in it, and since I really don't care what colour people's skin is, I'm not embedded in it. Same with whatever this month's trend is.
A cycle of:
1. group of people call themselves something
2. others start calling them that
3. someone uses it in a derogatory way
4. original group of people complain about others calling them that term
5. original group of people keep calling themselves that but say noone else should call them that so term makes its way out of fashion
6. repeat