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Also, "Black" is not always referring to race/skin color, snowflakes. Seriously, how about doing something better like try getting a job if you don't have one but are capable of getting a job? How about protesting actual racist issues vs. what a dictionary says?
The only reason "black" is noted as "often offensive" is because some blacks have insisted that people call them "African American" rather than black. The idiots on Twitter have somehow twisted this around in their minds to think the dictionary is telling them it's bad to be black... lol.
So, they want a dictionary to fix a definition that caters to them? OK, go start an Urban Dictionary-type (which is often NSFW) site but don't urge publishers to cater to you like that! SMDH!
I wonder why so many people on this forum who aren't black obsess about everything they do, think or vote.
I wonder why so many on the far-left worry about the labeling of black Americans?
At one time 'colored' was used (as in 'National Association for the Advancement of Colored People'). At some point that was deemed offensive, so 'Negro' became the PC label (as in 'United Negro College Fund'). That too was deemed offensive, so 'black' became PC. Then it was 'African American,' then full circle to 'person of color.'
Make up your minds! For me, I will continue to use the term 'black,' because growing up, that was the term generally used by those wishing to show respect.
I wonder why so many on the far-left worry about the labeling of black Americans?
At one time 'colored' was used (as in 'National Association for the Advancement of Colored People'). At some point that was deemed offensive, so 'Negro' became the PC label (as in 'United Negro College Fund'). That too was deemed offensive, so 'black' became PC. Then it was 'African American,' then full circle to 'person of color.'
Make up your minds! For me, I will continue to use the term 'black,' because growing up, that was the term generally used by those wishing to show respect.
Black is fine, preferred even by many.
Language evolves, as society does. This is something you might have to get over if you plan on functioning in polite society.
Language evolves, as society does. This is something you might have to get over if you plan on functioning in polite society.
This is hardly evolution. This has been a roller-coaster ride over the past 50 years. Why the need for so many different labels? What other aspect of language goes through so many changes? I can think of very few.
The above link is where I had a Twitter exchange with 1 of the Twitter users in the Yahoo article (@NyshaylaBarnes):
-Me: "There is even the fact that 1 of the dictionary definitions there noted it is often used offensively towards African Americans. Sheesh, Nyshayla is getting desperate."
a. Her: "How is this being desperate?"
b. Me: "O.K., 'desperate' may have been the wrong word choice. Are you going to protest the fact that there are dictionaries with the N-word (which is often addressed as something like 'often used offensively'). How about protesting actual racist issues vs. what a dictionary says?"
c. Her: "I am not going to trivialize any Black issue over another. And I do protest for other 'real issues' that Black people face. This is one of many. Now get off my thread."
d. Me: "O.K., I see the meanings of 'black' here only as in issue when people use them in a disparaging manner. I think most don't use it that way. To me, it seems you are so stuck it having to be a race issue."
-Here, the snowflake did that "Black people cannot be racist only prejudiced power"-type post: twitter.com/NyshaylaBarnes/status/1137823738240610308.
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