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Genuine Question ... not trolling...

  • 21-11-2011 10:50AM
    #1
    The Rook
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 437 ✭✭


    So, I realise that this may be perceived as being a bit controversial, but I’m only asking because I don’t want to make a mistake one day which would be even MORE controversial….

    When you’re talking about someone who is black, is it actually PC to say that they’re “black”? I had thought it was, but then I saw this thread: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056455944&page=3 (post #40) and it’s perceived as being ignorant and rude.

    “Coloured” is obviously out of the question (despite what the older generation may think) and clearly you can’t say “Negro” or anything of its ilk.

    “African American” would (if it’s not offensive) only apply to Americans of an African origin, and I genuinely don’t know what’s right any more.

    Halp!!


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  • #2
    El Weirdo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,651 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    I think that post was meant as a joke.


  • #3
    Fukuyama
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,023 ✭✭✭Fukuyama


    Homie?


  • #4
    abouttobebanned
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,943 ✭✭✭abouttobebanned


    I try to not talk about them at all. The world has gone so PC mad now that it's almost impossible to say the right thing.

    They're just people like you and me. I don't object to being called white...even though I'm actually more of a pinkish yellow. If it bothered them to be called black then they really have little to be worrying about and my guess is they are more interesting in having an argument than equality.


  • #5
    Cormac2791
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 516 ✭✭✭Cormac2791


    Brotha from anotha motha!


  • #6
    PandyAndy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 583 ✭✭✭PandyAndy


    Chocolate bear(s)


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  • #7
    flutterflye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,538 ✭✭✭flutterflye


    I just say black - I don't think that's politically incorrect?
    But they keep changing what is politically incorrect, so who knows!

    What about people who are half black and half caucasian?
    (I just noticed there that the word asian is in caucasian - is there a reason for that?)


  • #8
    im invisible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,372 ✭✭✭im invisible


    Black, white, yellow... we all end up the same in the end.


  • #9
    Feisar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,031 ✭✭✭Feisar


    Reminds me of a time I was working with an American architect. Met him at the photocopier and he asked me about this "big guy". who was he, what did he do etc. So I asked "is he black". Much stuttering and fumbling from the architect, he said he was.
    Ah I said, that's such and such, he's a QS over me.

    I couldn't see the problem, neither could my boss.

    First they came for the socialists...



  • #10
    connundrum
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,563 ✭✭✭connundrum


    Can't we all shake hands and forget that this thread ever existed?


  • #11
    Pherekydes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 16,339 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    Ask their name, and refer to them by that?


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  • #12
    arybvtcw0eolkf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,608 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    Choose your words very carefully!!.



  • #13
    JohnnyTodd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 287 ✭✭JohnnyTodd


    What's wrong with using the word negro?


  • #14
    simonmln
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 205 ✭✭simonmln


    Ask John Terry? He seems to be in the know.


  • #15
    MagicMarker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    Blackie.


  • #16
    jester77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,264 ✭✭✭✭jester77


    I find that referencing a person by name works well


  • #17
    kieranfitz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 592 ✭✭✭kieranfitz


    Dude?


  • #18
    Frank Black
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,296 ✭✭✭Frank Black


    I'm ok with people refering to me as Black Francis.


  • #19
    iregk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,235 ✭✭✭iregk


    Funny how racism tends to be one way. For example you saying someone is black can be taken by some as racist however a black person saying someone is white is taken as "well he is!".


  • #20
    The Rook
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 437 ✭✭The Rook


    jester77 wrote: »
    I find that referencing a person by name works well
    Yes, obviously Jester if you know their name you would use their name, but what if you didn't know their name. i.e. if you were describing them to someone. eg if I was going out with a girl and my sister asked me to describe her....her name would be no use at all to my sister.... so what's the "proper" term?!!


  • #21
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 53,068 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Do you think if you were living in a predominantly black country - say Kenya for argument's sake, that if someone was trying to describe you they wouldn't refer to you as white?

    It's descriptive, nothing more nothing less.

    Same as saying, the red head, the tall guy, the pretty girl, the bloke with the glasses, the chinese guy, the scottish fella.


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  • #22
    Absurdum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,444 ✭✭✭Absurdum


    fear dubh


  • #23
    Liam Byrne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,152 ✭✭✭✭Liam Byrne


    MagicMarker wrote: »
    Blackie.

    Thanks for that, whitie!


  • #24
    Cian92
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 827 ✭✭✭Cian92


    Absurdum wrote: »
    fear dubh
    Well lets not go that far now...


  • #25
    sbsquarepants
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,810 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    Fear gorm.
    In Irish, fear dubh means the devil:eek:


  • #26
    im invisible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,372 ✭✭✭im invisible


    the blue man


  • #27
    Lord Trollington
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,451 ✭✭✭Lord Trollington


    Is John Terry accused of calling him a ****** rather than a negro?

    What I seem to see is happening lately is that every race seems to have been subject to a form a racism except Caucasian's who live in Western Socities, doesn't seem to matter what is said to them. Its never perceived as racist.


  • #28
    Lord Trollington
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,451 ✭✭✭Lord Trollington


    Is John Terry accused of calling him a ****** rather than a negro?

    What I seem to see is happening lately is that every race seems to have been subject to a form a racism except Caucasian's who live in Western Socities, doesn't seem to matter what is said to them. Its never perceived as racist.


  • #29
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Lord Trollington wrote: »
    Is John Terry accused of calling him a ****** rather than a negro?

    ..............

    "fucking black cunt" is the expression alleged.


  • #30
    MagicMarker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    Liam Byrne wrote: »
    Thanks for that, whitie!
    Racist


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  • #31
    Batsy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,341 ✭✭✭Batsy


    The Rook wrote: »
    When you’re talking about someone who is black, is it actually PC to say that they’re “black”?


    Well, they aren't green or tartan, are they?


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