Do You Find The Term "Colored People" To Be Offensive?

[ChristisKing]

This came up in another topic so I figured that I would post a poll just out of curiosity. I personally find it to be a load of manure that I even have to ask this question as they are what they are.

 

[Anomalism]

It's generally seen as old-fashioned. It's something old people say because they're out of touch.

 

[Magnus]

Wow. In this day and age, do people still ask these kinds of questions?

What next? Should we call Chinese slant-eyes? They are what they are, right? Yesh.

 

[Blues Man]

All people are colored

 

[MisterBeale]

Not so much offensive, but a bit of an anachronism.

 

[Auld Phart]

Hmmm

Mean Joe GREEN

REDD Fox

Slappy WHITE

James BROWN

James BLACK

Yup

they're colored.

 

[ChristisKing]

All people are colored

True, good point.

 

[Anomalism]

Should we call Chinese slant-eyes?

Do it.

 

[Desperado]

Wow. In this day and age, do people still ask these kinds of questions?

What next? Should we call Chinese slant-eyes? They are what they are, right? Yesh.

No come on this is 2021 we call them chinks

 

[MisterBeale]

It's generally seen as old-fashioned. It's something old people say because they're out of touch.

 

[PoliticalChic]

This came up in another topic so I figured that I would post a poll just out of curiosity. I personally find it to be a load of manure that I even have to ask this question as they are what they are.

I guess it depends on who it refers to.


Did you see this article.......they defined me out of the group.

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"University Of Maryland Creates New Racial Category: ‘Students Of Color Minus Asian’​

...a chart comparing freshman admissions rates at the University of Maryland between two categories, “White or Asian students” and “Students of Color minus Asian.”

The photo has the University of Maryland’s logo attached at the bottom. The chart compared admissions and enrollment rates among freshmen in the fall of 2017 to admissions rates in the fall of 2021. The data showed that general admissions have gone up as have average weighted GPAs, according to the chart posted by journalist Christopher Rufo.

The chart classifies students by race, though the university opted to create a new racial category called “Students of Color minus Asian.” Asian students aged 18-24 have the highest nationwide college enrollment rates, averaging approximately 60 percent, according to a 2020 study by the National Center for Education Statistics.



The university’s Diversity and Inclusion Dashboard similarly creates a separate category for Asian students. The university boasts of its “underrepresented minority” category, which includes students who are “African-American/Black, Hispanic, American Indian, and Native Hawaiian.”

University Of Maryland Creates New Racial Category: ‘Students Of Color Minus Asian’​

A photo emerged of a chart comparing freshman admissions rates between two categories, “White or Asian students” and “Students of Color minus Asian.”
dailycaller.com

 

[Desperado]

It's generally seen as old-fashioned. It's something old people say because they're out of touch.

Tell me what is the difference "colored people:"or "people of color"? Seems either is more inclusive than "Black People"
If colored people is racist why hasn't the NAACP changed their name

 

[iamwhatiseem]

Rarely hear it any more.
Is it offensive? Haha... these days what is offensive depends on who said it and how they said it.
For instance... Colored people...how is that different than the politically accepted "people of color".
It is all asinine

 

[iamwhatiseem]

Tell me what is the difference "colored people:"or "people of color"? Seems either is more inclusive than "Black People"

Haha... beat me by a second

 

[Anomalism]

Tell me what is the difference "colored people:"or "people of color"? Seems either is more inclusive than "Black People"

I don't make the rules dude. Social etiquette is what it is.

 

[surada]

Not so much offensive, but a bit of an anachronism.

Why don't we just ASK what they want to be called?

 

[shoshi]

I am brown Mizrahi. Persian and Tunisian. Does that make me colored?

 

[Otis Mayfield]

As in:

"Them coloreds?"

 

[iamwhatiseem]

Why don't we just ASK what they want to be called?

Ask who?
You think all of them will give the same answer?

 

[PoliticalChic]

As in:

"Them coloreds?"

Democrats said that, I suppose, when they were lynching same.