'Coloured' not PC anymore

[DoctorStrangelove]

Was it ever politically correct? Asking for a South African friend.

I'll have to ask my South African coloured relatives you fecking snowflake.

[Jog On]

Just read some comments on the Amber Rudd Tweet and apparently

"coloured" = not OK
"Person of colour" = OK

For now...

Anyone know the woke term?

[Whorty]

and i care what a rock spider thinks

Oh, you care ......... you care

Edit: had to look up the term 'rock spider'. Can't work out if you're referring to me as the Australian definition or SA definition. Strange either way as I'm neither an Aussie or a Saffer. To help you out, I'm from the heart of the Black Country (Tipton to be more specific) .... YamYam is a more normal insult for where I'm from

rock spider
See also: rockspider
Noun
rock spider (plural rock spiders)

(Australia, slang, prison slang) A pedophile or child molester.
(South Africa, offensive, slang) A Boer or Afrikaner.

[BR14]

We'd refer to you and your mates on here as gammon, overweight and educationally challenged

HTH

and i care what a rock spider thinks

[Whorty]

I find being referred to as a snowflake very offensive.

Noted

[Whorty]

yeh, so is calling someone white also problematic? - brown? red? sallow? how does one describe people without some twat taking offence? - and the twats are usually tree hugging white middle class hippies

We'd refer to you and your mates on here as gammon, overweight and educationally challenged

HTH

[PhiltheGreek]

People taking offense? In General? Surely not.

Never. You can call a spade a spade around here without fear of falling foul of Wilde's observation

The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.

[Zigenare]

Mmm. We the mods have access to more information than you do.

Such accusations have been wrong before. Furthermore whether this was a sockie, your misogyny was offensive to others than myself

I note you gave a helpful answer in the end. Which was nice of you.

People taking offense? In General? Surely not.

[NotAllThere]

Just refer to everyone as 256 shades of grey, although anyone who is actually grey maybe offended by this.

Referring to people by their skin colour seems ok to me, in the same way as referring to their hair or eye colour. It's the classification of people according to skin colour that's stupid. "So and so is black". No, they're a chocolatey brown. Or have darker skin than the pale fellow over there.

I find being referred to as a snowflake very offensive.

As you're a gammon, I can understand that.

[Yorkie62]

Yes. But not a creationist, if that's what you're implying.

Back in 2008, the NAACP said:

“The term ‘colored’ is not derogatory,... They (the NAACP) chose the word ‘colored’ because it was the most positive description commonly used at that time. It’s outdated and antiquated but not offensive.”

As I am in a mixed race family I find the whole concept of such labelling odd. The idiot claim that all white people are racist - how does that work for mixed race? Do they have to beat themselves up? Or must they be half ashamed? Does the white count as half-privileged? For my grandson - will he be quarter-privileged? Are they automatically coloured, or black, or whatever term people prefer to use? Is it the degree of whiteness that matters? That begins to sound like the racist policies of Apartheid, or the Southern States of not that long ago. Is that where PC is heading?

Just refer to everyone as 256 shades of grey, although anyone who is actually grey maybe offended by this.

Just to be clear, as a person who's shade of grey is towards the lighter end of the scale (except for quite a few (right arm and right half of torso) red birthmarks which are definitely not grey) I find being referred to as a snowflake very offensive.