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was it just that thread?


nah i don't care - you can leave me out locked out of it


im not causing you trouble


stop it
 
What do you call constantly having to delete the same post?
anyways idc. Like I said just post whatever and I'll let someone else deal with it
have a good night krink
 
Dropperneck said:
I bet they would prefer people of sand. Sort of like how we can’t call them coloured people anymore, only people of colour
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i remember when some super sheltered lil miss sunshine said coloured people at work and jaws dropped, that was in the halcyon days when you were either white, black, brown or yellow

then some white-passing person thought up people of color and somehow that stuck...

just goes to show you how absurd the whole thing is
 
thujone said:
then some white-passing person thought up people of color and somehow that stuck...
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not really.

The Lexicon Origins of People of Color

"The term “people of color” is in a strange place in its evolution as part of the American lexicon. The phrase is frequently thrown around by media figures as a shorthand for the United States’ numerous minority populations. People more specifically labeled as “Black,” “Asian,” “Hispanic,” and “Indian” frequently fall into this catch-all category. In an attempt to be more specific, some people have adopted “Black and Indigenous people of color,” more commonly known by its abbreviation, BIPOC.

As “people of color” has become more entrenched in media language, however, it has also developed a cadre of critics. The backlash has included an assortment of misunderstandings and flat-out conspiracies about the origins and purposes of the term. Numerous critics on social media claim that “people of color” is a recent invention. Some assert that the term originated in the last decades of the twentieth century. Others have expressed on social media that the use of “people of color” is part of a modern plot to erase “Black” people.

How we got to this point in the history of “people of color” is the result of a two-fold problem. On one end is a misunderstanding about the long existence of “people of color” and its related category “colored” in the United States and other parts of the European colonized world. The misunderstanding that “Black” has long existed in American English as a term used specifically for people of African descent lies at the other end of the problem.

The truth is that English-speaking people in the United States have used “people of color” as a category since at least the 1700s." (my emphasis)

alasdair
 
Colored people

My grandmother called them "colored"

I don't see what the difference is between colored people and people of color

:shrug:
 
thujone said:
i remember when some super sheltered lil miss sunshine said coloured people at work and jaws dropped, that was in the halcyon days when you were either white, black, brown or yellow

then some white-passing person thought up people of color and somehow that stuck...

just goes to show you how absurd the whole thing is
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The banks control language, it’s a big part of the world we live in. Any person that is pro establishment is a willing cop, there at the drop of a dime to censor ur speech. Just my observation though
 
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