Look.... I am not claiming to be black. I am not claiming to be decended from people who were kidnaped from their homes by whites, and at times actually given to whites by tribal leaders, to be used as slaves. I don't think I ever actually claimed that. I am just saying, that there's more than one kind of prejudice out there, and can you please at least get that?
Black people do not have the market on prejudice and racism.
Jewish people probably have suffered prejudice too, what with a rather substantial portion of their people being killed by Hitler, and the neo-nazis still around today. Who, I know, aren't fond of black people either.
And no, I am not claiming to be Jewish or of Jewish decent either (within the last century or so anyway).
Around here, if you're black then, well, generally people say you're black. If you're white, you're white. If you're mixed race... you get the idea. And if you get all the non white groups together, generally the term these days seem to be 'ethnic minorities'.
I also know that I've been friends with more than one non-white person in my time, and all of them would think I was bonkers if I suddenly started refering to them as 'people of colour'.
So, seriously, I know it's a sensative issue over there, is here too but not to the same degree I think. But, get some perspective, yeah?
I do not claim to be black.
I do not claim to understand the emotional impact of struggling for freedom and then equality, which is still a struggle today in many cases.
I do not claim to be the local PC term maker either.
I am just saying, really, that PC can and does at time go so far that it can be absured. And I didn't even say People of Color is absured. I don't get why it's such a magnificent term, especially when it sounds patronising to me, but if you like it, heck, you like it, okay, fair enough.
Doesn't mean that suddenly changing the name of a form of note taking because some guy though it insulted people who were mentally ill isn't slightly daft. And, just to make sure that doesn't insult someone, I'll just go ask a friend of mine who'd have more right to complain about that than either you or me if using 'Brain Storm' when meaning note taking is insulting.
Hang on...
And she's not online. I'll get back to you on that.
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Look.... I am not claiming to be black. I am not claiming to be decended from people who were kidnaped from their homes by whites, and at times actually given to whites by tribal leaders, to be used as slaves. I don't think I ever actually claimed that. I am just saying, that there's more than one kind of prejudice out there, and can you please at least get that?
Black people do not have the market on prejudice and racism.
Jewish people probably have suffered prejudice too, what with a rather substantial portion of their people being killed by Hitler, and the neo-nazis still around today. Who, I know, aren't fond of black people either.
And no, I am not claiming to be Jewish or of Jewish decent either (within the last century or so anyway).
Around here, if you're black then, well, generally people say you're black. If you're white, you're white. If you're mixed race... you get the idea. And if you get all the non white groups together, generally the term these days seem to be 'ethnic minorities'.
I also know that I've been friends with more than one non-white person in my time, and all of them would think I was bonkers if I suddenly started refering to them as 'people of colour'.
So, seriously, I know it's a sensative issue over there, is here too but not to the same degree I think. But, get some perspective, yeah?
I do not claim to be black.
I do not claim to understand the emotional impact of struggling for freedom and then equality, which is still a struggle today in many cases.
I do not claim to be the local PC term maker either.
I am just saying, really, that PC can and does at time go so far that it can be absured. And I didn't even say People of Color is absured. I don't get why it's such a magnificent term, especially when it sounds patronising to me, but if you like it, heck, you like it, okay, fair enough.
Doesn't mean that suddenly changing the name of a form of note taking because some guy though it insulted people who were mentally ill isn't slightly daft. And, just to make sure that doesn't insult someone, I'll just go ask a friend of mine who'd have more right to complain about that than either you or me if using 'Brain Storm' when meaning note taking is insulting.
Hang on...
And she's not online. I'll get back to you on that.