The revolution devours its children?

[Whorty]

the N word is used in rap and in a lot of films. But 'negro' while insensitive is not in the same league. To quote it in a news story is hardly a slur though you might not put it in the headline.

+1

[Whorty]

Unfortunately just as we settle in people abuse the terms. Also history intevenes, Coloured was a term in law in the US & SA that holds bad meanings.

Here we have a chap who is just trying to get on and he is being attacked by racist and politically motivated people of colour. This is a new phase in the equality history just as BLM is.

I find it interesting the term 'coconut' is still acceptable. This just feels so wrong to me, and it's surely only a matter of time before it is rightly dropped.

[BrilloPad]

I find it interesting the term 'coconut' is still acceptable. This just feels so wrong to me, and it's surely only a matter of time before it is rightly dropped.

As long as I am not walking underneath when it is dropped...

[vetran]

I like to think society is improving.

Some day eating meat will be seen as slavery is now. Similarly for burning fossil fuels.

You mean as previously completely legal (if disgusting) trade practised by the whole world and then after some enlightened British souls struggled to end its grip on civilisation at considerable cost we are berated by those whose ancestors were heavily involved in the trade who want compensation?

Reparations for Bernard Mathews descendants NOW!

I see synthetic meat becoming the norm long term. The descendants of Babe are unlikely to topple the Churchill statue.

[vetran]

I find it interesting the term 'coconut' is still acceptable. This just feels so wrong to me, and it's surely only a matter of time before it is rightly dropped.

What do we replace it with?

"Hairy Nut of Milk and flesh"


Coconut is a term used by people of colour to people of colour that they believe are not conforming to their beliefs of how society should run for people of colour.

[d000hg]

How am I going to order a Negroni now? Surely won't have to ask for 1/3 Campari, 1/3 red vermouth, 1/3 gin over ice served with orange peel, I might be ok for the first one, but after that all bets are off!

I tried to search for 'negro' to read a bit of history and it auto-corrected to 'negroni'.

[Whorty]

What do we replace it with?

"Hairy Nut of Milk and flesh"


Coconut is a term used by people of colour to people of colour that they believe are not conforming to their beliefs of how society should run for people of colour.

Exactly ... it's a racial slur. Well, it is to me anyway.

I just don't get why skin colour, country of birth or anything similar needs to be used at all. We're all human, it's just that some of us were lucky enough to be born on one patch of earth, behind an imaginary line in the dirt, compared to another.

Country/nation/culture is such an antiquated idea, and yet as humans we cling on to them and use them to define ourselves and attack others.

[Gibbon]

I tried to search for 'negro' to read a bit of history and it auto-corrected to 'negroni'.

HaHa, so if you slip up and say N***o just slip a ni on the end, just don't slip further with a ger.

[northernladuk]

Glad I found this thread. I hadn't got a clue what word they were using that was so offensive it had to be starred out.

Seems very counter productive to star it out. If they'd printed the word we'd have read it and moved on but instead nearly everyone that reads it now has to have a discussion about the word so surely increasing it's use in the short term and sticks in peoples minds longer term.

Best way to increase it's use seems to be the blank it out. More wokery or are the right to blank it?

[OwlHoot]

Good lord, the papers can't even print 'negro' now? It might not be a word we'd use but it's hardly the big N.

Presumably it's the context - "negro" on its own may be OK, but preceding it by "house" is pretty insulting!