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See that guy on sky sports interview got nailed for using the wrong words to describe a certain appearance.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/golf/22636894
I thought that was the right term - I'm asian/sikh and even I don't know politically what I'm supposed to call those like myself!
Does anybody know what the poltically correct terms are nowadays in describing certain appearances?
Thanks
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/golf/22636894
I thought that was the right term - I'm asian/sikh and even I don't know politically what I'm supposed to call those like myself!
Does anybody know what the poltically correct terms are nowadays in describing certain appearances?
Thanks
steve singh said:
See that guy on sky sports interview got nailed for using the wrong words to describe a certain appearance.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/golf/22636894
I thought that was the right term - I'm asian/sikh and even I don't know politically what I'm supposed to call those like myself!
Does anybody know what the poltically correct terms are nowadays in describing certain appearances?
Thanks
Will we just stick to IC codes?http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/golf/22636894
I thought that was the right term - I'm asian/sikh and even I don't know politically what I'm supposed to call those like myself!
Does anybody know what the poltically correct terms are nowadays in describing certain appearances?
Thanks
If we can get all the honkies to remember them.
When I moved into my house one of my neighbours was telling me about my other neighbours and said "...and that house is the brown family, lovely people..." I thought their name was Brown until I saw them. They're Asian.
If I was the chap interviewed I'd probably have gone with "His friends are athletes from a range of ethnic backgrounds" rather than "He's friends with coloured athletes" but it is a bit of a minefield and the sentiment is the important thing, rather than making a fuss because someone uses an out-of-date word.
If I was the chap interviewed I'd probably have gone with "His friends are athletes from a range of ethnic backgrounds" rather than "He's friends with coloured athletes" but it is a bit of a minefield and the sentiment is the important thing, rather than making a fuss because someone uses an out-of-date word.
This was definitely the correct term when I was younger.
Some jumped up
somewhere obviously decided it was time for a change and overnight it becomes offensive.
I was listening to Stevie Wonder's Living for the City earlier tonight in which he uses the forbidden term, and that song is a heartfelt call for equality. I'll take the great SW's word over some PC wker in need of a blowjob any day.
Some jumped up
somewhere obviously decided it was time for a change and overnight it becomes offensive.I was listening to Stevie Wonder's Living for the City earlier tonight in which he uses the forbidden term, and that song is a heartfelt call for equality. I'll take the great SW's word over some PC w
ker in need of a blowjob any day.Yeah why are some words now frowned on? It's not like a horrible word is it? There are clearly some words that have historical bad meanings, but 'coloured' - is this all that bad? And before one of my white brethren tell me off, I'm friends with a broad section of cultures and it's clear I am no racist!!!
HertsBiker said:
Yeah why are some words now frowned on? It's not like a horrible word is it? There are clearly some words that have historical bad meanings, but 'coloured' - is this all that bad? And before one of my white brethren tell me off, I'm friends with a broad section of cultures and it's clear I am no racist!!!
Just the way it is as soon as anyone is offended (or says they are) it's in the bad books and unusable for fear of being called racist.My job involves visiting customers, in my team of 21 there's one black guy, when said customers are referring to him for any reason, they either say " the black lad or the coloured lad" (our customers rarely know us by name by the way) Never, for one second have I thought the term coloured inappropriate.
Triumph Man said:
Christ, you'd hate to hear what people of different races are called down here... My friend's grandmother once referred to black people as nig nog niggies. I've only typed that because it was such a random thing of her to say, I'm not trying to create an incident...
Old people are funny. My grandfather is from rural NI, never been further away than northern Scotland, his exposure to other ethnicities has been next to nil. Except when he visited his brother in Leeds... he couldn't stop talking about "those chocolate people, black as your boot they were, could speak good English, mind. Smelt a bit."Rawwr said:
pad58 said:
I class myself as Welsh,often in my travels I have obviously been called a "Taff" or "Taffy", Welshy which is not PC I believe and I don't care.
So really the PC version would be a Welshman?
Maybe wrong but heyho.
Or leek-munching simpleton. So really the PC version would be a Welshman?
Maybe wrong but heyho.
pad58 said:
I class myself as Welsh,often in my travels I have obviously been called a "Taff" or "Taffy", Welshy which is not PC I believe and I don't care.
So really the PC version would be a Welshman?
Maybe wrong but heyho.
That's the odd thing. It's totally acceptable to call Welsh people "Sheep shaggers", or Northerners "Monkeys", but somehow calling somebody "Coloured" or suggesting that they might eat fried chicken is a naughty thing to do.So really the PC version would be a Welshman?
Maybe wrong but heyho.
Sod it, I'm going to think about all this whilst I'm shagging Dolly.
Ridiculous isn't it?
George O'Grady obviously had no idea that the word 'coloured' is now considered out of date and offensive by some. He was clearly trying to be polite, and to say the right thing, unlike Mr Garcia.
The media are at fault here, for sensationalising an innocent mistake.
George O'Grady obviously had no idea that the word 'coloured' is now considered out of date and offensive by some. He was clearly trying to be polite, and to say the right thing, unlike Mr Garcia.
The media are at fault here, for sensationalising an innocent mistake.
Edited by Bradgate on Friday 24th May 00:04
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