jamescfm wrote:Your appeal for "civil debate" falls on deaf ears for me, it reminds me of the familiar comparison of playing chess with a pigeon. If you are genuine in your appeal though then I would suggest a starting point might be for you to apologise for using an offensive racial slur.
Augustus Germanus wrote:jamescfm wrote:Your appeal for "civil debate" falls on deaf ears for me, it reminds me of the familiar comparison of playing chess with a pigeon. If you are genuine in your appeal though then I would suggest a starting point might be for you to apologise for using an offensive racial slur.
I had to actually look up a list of ethnic slurs to understand what you meant, and you mean that I used the term "colored" right? As someone who does not fully master the English language, I do apologize for using this word and I have changed it in my previous post. As a man who exhibits so-called "colored" (that is sand brown) skin myself amid most of my fellow countrymen I actually did not realize that using this term was offensive as I have had no problem with it myself. Anyways I deeply apologize for using it and I will be more careful next time.
John Cracker wrote:Augustus Germanus wrote:jamescfm wrote:Your appeal for "civil debate" falls on deaf ears for me, it reminds me of the familiar comparison of playing chess with a pigeon. If you are genuine in your appeal though then I would suggest a starting point might be for you to apologise for using an offensive racial slur.
I had to actually look up a list of ethnic slurs to understand what you meant, and you mean that I used the term "colored" right? As someone who does not fully master the English language, I do apologize for using this word and I have changed it in my previous post. As a man who exhibits so-called "colored" (that is sand brown) skin myself amid most of my fellow countrymen I actually did not realize that using this term was offensive as I have had no problem with it myself. Anyways I deeply apologize for using it and I will be more careful next time.
Don't apologies, using the term colored is not offensive, both sides use it all the time to refer to minorities, its just a descriptive word, just like the term black, white, asian, indian ect, honestly its hard to not offend someone these days, so I just say what I am going to say, I don't try to offend people, but I don't go out of my way to use "correct" terms.
I don't try to offend people, but I don't go out of my way to use "correct" terms.
John Cracker wrote:Don't apologies, using the term colored is not offensive, both sides use it all the time to refer to minorities, its just a descriptive word, just like the term black, white, asian, indian ect, honestly its hard to not offend someone these days, so I just say what I am going to say, I don't try to offend people, but I don't go out of my way to use "correct" terms.
DueWizard70 wrote:Not going out of your way to use "correct" terms is, in fact, offensive.
ChitinKal wrote:I'm a bit on the fence with this comment. I do believe (as I stated earlier in this post) that it is decent to refer to people using the descriptors they prefer (like using preferred pronouns), but who decides what terms are "correct," and what does "correct" even mean? Are we just referring to the people themselves choosing how they are to be referred to, or is there some higher power that decides what is and isn't "correct?" I'm honestly just irked by the prospect of being compelled to use terms that are arbitrarily deemed "correct" by people that are not me.
I would say that the term "colored" IS offensive. This is because back in the say when segregation was still a thing (in a way it still is but I'm not getting into that) "colored" was used to refer to places that only African-Americans could use. That's why it is offensive. The fact that both sides use it does not mean that it is a good thing to say.
Not going out of your way to use "correct" terms is, in fact, offensive.
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