Politically correct...

[LeeMad]

Jasandjules said:

Ganglandboss said:

Coloured has been considered offensive for quite a while. .

Has it? S**t, I didn't get that memo.

me neither. cant keep up with what is and isnt offensive nowadays. load of bullst.

[tubbystu]

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.

Welshperson surely, if truly PC

[Mobsta]

In South Africa today
- Black usually refers to pitch black. Usually from Northern Africa. Not native to Southern Africa.
- White refers to the white man.
- Coloured is everything in between. I had friends who had slightly olive skin who referred to themselves as coloured, as well as the darker skinned folk also referring to themselves as coloured.

Their way, their ideology, their terminology. So its utterly baffling to me that the word isn't politically correct over here.

Cape Towns Argus newspaper returns 11'000 results for the word coloured.
Its part of the lingo, perfectly polite and totally non offensive.
http://www.iol.co.za/search-results-page?q=coloure...

Must be a British/European thing. Political correctness gone mad again...

[98elise]

I was going through school in the late 70's early 80's. We were taught that black was offensive, so people with darker skin were "coloured". Later this became offensive. One thing you can be sure of though, its normally a white middle class politician whos most offended.

98elise.....honkey and proud since 1966

[vincevega]

LeeMad said:

Jasandjules said:

Ganglandboss said:

Coloured has been considered offensive for quite a while. .

Has it? S**t, I didn't get that memo.

me neither. cant keep up with what is and isnt offensive nowadays. load of bullst.

The PC lot don't want us to be able to keep up. If we use outdated, non-approved terminology then we appear ignorant and out of touch. This gives them moral superiority over us.

[LeeMad]

are we still allowed to even say black??

[parapaul]

Crazy isn't it?

I'm white. I have no issue with somebody describing me as such, because it's factually correct. Similarly I don't see any problem with describing someone else as black/chinese/indian/asian, as long as it's correct.

I completely agree that derogatory terms shouldn't be used, but as long as descriptive terms are used without malice, what's the problem?

[s p a c e m a n]

LeeMad said:

are we still allowed to even say black??

This. I still use black, brown or 'looking bloke'. If I know where they are from I'll try that as a description but what good is describing someone as ethnic when half the people you are talking about aint fooking white, especially when the person you are describing them to can't tell the difference between an African/Somalian/Jamaican ect??

[g3org3y]

vincevega said:

LeeMad said:

Jasandjules said:

Ganglandboss said:

Coloured has been considered offensive for quite a while. .

Has it? S**t, I didn't get that memo.

me neither. cant keep up with what is and isnt offensive nowadays. load of bullst.

The PC lot don't want us to be able to keep up. If we use outdated, non-approved terminology then we appear ignorant and out of touch. This gives them moral superiority over us.

And there are plenty of people out there who seem to make a career out of being offended or even worse - being offended on behalf of others.

Professional s. Might not be PC but very accurate.

[Mobsta]

LeeMad said:

are we still allowed to even say black??

Seem to remember a court case somewhere in the world perhaps a decade ago.
Room full of white folk
One black guy.
Someone was pointing someone out, said "he is over there, next to the black guy..."
Trouble ensued.

[Mobsta]

At least we aren't Pandas.
Poor sods are black and white and Asian...

[zip929]

This pc thing just gets more ridiculous as time goes on.
You could not make it up.

[pad58]

Mobsta said:

At least we aren't Pandas.
Poor sods are black and white and Asian...

[steve singh]

Mobsta said:

At least we aren't Pandas.
Poor sods are black and white and Asian...

Oi! You leave my family out of this!!!

[steve singh]

So not sure what the term is then - seriously confusing.

Wish everyone would just lighten up (in the emotional and not colour sense - I'm no relation to Jacko).

So hard to describe someone - my friend at work was trying to describe one of his best friends to another colleague who was looking for him in the office...out of the sea of white faces he was the only ethnic.

Rather than just say, it's the indian/asian guy over there - he had the convulted stripped shirt, tall guy, specs, sits 3 banks in, opposite that blonde lady - I couldn't help but chuckle!!!

Edited by steve singh on Friday 24th May 08:48

[New POD]

Lad on my degree course referred to me as one of the "greys". I referred to him as Mike. That may not have been his name, but hey.

[MadOne]

parapaul said:

Crazy isn't it?

I'm white. I have no issue with somebody describing me as such, because it's factually correct. Similarly I don't see any problem with describing someone else as black/chinese/indian/asian, as long as it's correct.

I completely agree that derogatory terms shouldn't be used, but as long as descriptive terms are used without malice, what's the problem?

I agree with this. I think the PC Brigade have gone too far. I always use the term 'black guy/woman' and don't feel I am insulting anyone. If I was the only white person in a room full of blacks and someone had to pick me out and said 'The white person', I wouldn't be offended.

[750turbo]

Papa Hotel said:

Will we just stick to IC codes?

If we can get all the honkies to remember them.

You utter bd!

How do I explain to anyoine why I am crying with laughter at this time of the morning!

[anonymous-user]

A chap at work, Tyrone, asked me if he could have access to the colour printer.

I said "Tyrone, in this day and age you can have access to any printer you want!"

[jshell]

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

I lived and worked in Nigeria for over 7 years. It was very clear from the natives that they were 'black' and I was 'white'. No messing about, and discussing race was never an issue. It was very straightforward.