"person of color" really bugs the hell out of me

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Syrinx  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Fri Apr-09-10 07:00 AM
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"person of color" really bugs the hell out of me
   
"Colored person" is totally off limits, and rightfully so. But isn't "person of color," semantically, the exact equal of that phrase? I would never call a black person "colored." But isn't calling someone a "person of color" the exact same thing? It's a little thing that just drives me up the wall.

More race talk at the DUmp.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8117484

[littlelamb]

The DUmp seems to be getting more and more racist

[USA4ME]

Hey Syrinx primitive, how about "black persuasion people?"  That's probably more to your liking.

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[miskie]

Personally, I have also always felt that "person of color" was a far more highbrow way of saying 'colored person' and I have always felt it was lame.

As if white people are actually colorless - transparent, maybe ?

With that being said, if this is what the community wants to be referred to, then thats fine with me.

Frankly, I think it would be better for racial communities made of Americans to refer to themselves as 'Americans' (Imagine that ! ), instead of by racial labels that help foster discrimination, but thats just me.

[Karin]

I've never used that phrase, and probably never will.  Look how weird it is:  "Hey honey, the new neighbors are moving in.  They're people of color."   "Get a load of that hot chick of color across the street."  "I'm seeing a new dentist today...he's a person of color, you know." 

[lastparker]

I've never used that phrase, and probably never will.  Look how weird it is:  "Hey honey, the new neighbors are moving in.  They're people of color."   "Get a load of that hot chick of color across the street."  "I'm seeing a new dentist today...he's a person of color, you know." 

Agreed.  All of those comments would prompt me to say, "What color?"

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

Honkies: The Translucent Race

No, really. It's like they're not even there.

[NHSparky]

Huh...and to think I don't even like mentioning color when speaking of someone.  Then again, I live in the second-whitest state in the nation and it's not like diversity is a concept with which most folks around here are familiar.

[The Village Idiot]

White people are invisible. Stealth people!

Wait a second, I ain't white.. I'm sort of a light peach color.

[DumbAss Tanker]

The reason the phrase has any currency at all is because the NAACP and Black politicians realized they were about to become the #2 minority behind Hispanics, and have boldly tried to steal the role of speaking for all of the Hispanics and anyone else with a tan, in order to tenaciously hang onto their own race-pimping-based power.

[GOBUCKS]

I think DUmmies might prefer "hue challenged", or "differently tinted". Didn't poor stupid Beth once refer to poor stupid Nick as "differently gifted"?

[Karin]

From the thread, a stupid comment:

madokie  (1000+ posts)      Fri Apr-09-10 07:04 AM
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2. All I know is I love my Black President
 after him it will be a long time before we have another white male at the helm in our Whitehouse. Irregardless of what the msm says this man is a man of the people with good American red blood coursing through his veins just like me.
 

I don't even know where to begin with that up there, but it speaks for itself among us, I think. 

The rest of the thread is just race race race race race race race race.......

[Chris]

Why should anyone give a damn what a bunch of stupid, white liberals think is the "correct" term when they keep changing it?

Damn honkeys.

[miskie]

From the thread, a stupid comment:

I don't even know where to begin with that up there, but it speaks for itself among us, I think. 

The rest of the thread is just race race race race race race race race.......

I'm not a grammar or spelling nazi, but this became the whole post for me.

madokie  (1000+ posts)      Fri Apr-09-10 07:04 AM
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2.  words- Irregardless -more words 

[Reality vs DU]

bobbolink   (1000+ posts)             Fri Apr-09-10 10:25 PM
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66. I much prefer "Person who is homeless" or "People who are homeless"
   
We are people first.

What I really hate is "THE" anything.

DUmmy Bobbo just can't resist letting people know she is homeless!

Dummy Bobbolink, assuming your not completely full of shit, what are you doing to improve you situation?  Huh?

[The Village Idiot]

DUmmy Bobbo just can't resist letting people know she is homeless!

That was subtle and germaine to the topic. NOT

[blitzkrieg_17]

DUmmy Bobbo just can't resist letting people know she is homeless!

Dummy Bobbolink, assuming your not completely full of shit, what are you doing to improve you situation?  Huh?

She is completely full of shit. And she will do nothing.

[GOBUCKS]

bobbolink   (1000+ posts)             Fri Apr-09-10 10:25 PM
Response to Reply #15
66. I much prefer "Person who is homeless" or "People who are homeless"
   
We are people first.

What I really hate is "THE" anything.

"THE" smelly Denver wino, who is better known at the DUmp as "THE" homeless DUmmy bobbolink, but who is known here as perhaps "THE" most accomplished and exquisitely skilled mole in the history of the DUmp.