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Raheem Sterling

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i think you say it because you know it gets a reaction and you know its the wrong term to use, carry on trying to annoy/upset people tho...its so easy to use language that isnt offensive
He does have a point, I've never heard any Black person or Asian person refer to themselves as a person of colour. The whole reason people stopped using the term coloured was because Black and Asian people didn't like people told they were all the same. I wouldn't use either coloured of person of colour to anybody. They are both the same really, I don't know why people treat them differently. It's bizarre, the same nonsense the used to be repeated by the far right is being used by people who are supposedly left wing/liberals.
 
He does have a point, I've never heard any Black person or Asian person refer to themselves as a person of colour. The whole reason people stopped using the term coloured was because Black and Asian people didn't like people told they were all the same. I wouldn't use either coloured of person of colour to anybody. They are both the same really, I don't know why people treat them differently. It's bizarre, the same nonsense the used to be repeated by the far right is being used by people who are supposedly left wing/liberals.
Its mainly used in america, but its clear that coloured is offensive...its easy not to use it
 
I think for something to be considered a racist term it has to have a derogatory intent behind it by the person who said it.

You’ve been told it’s an offensive word, to keep using it suggests intent. Language isn’t just words, it’s the meaning we give to those words.
Using ‘coloured’ to describe someone of a different skin colour is to create otherness, to define them as different from the norm.
Don’t use it if you don’t want people to call you out on using racist language.
 
You can label the Mail as racist mate. Due to them being incredibly racist.
In your opinion it is. Just like you could argue saying opposing Israel's policies are anti Semitic. It's not just the mail, it's all the newspapers that stir up racial division and most of it is doesn't even get talked about. As I've some people may dislike because he's Black, some people may jut dislike him for other reasons. Strangely when the RS booed Evra for reporting racism and nobody seemed to say anything shocked me. Also Dogleash got off the hook for basically spending weeks encouraging racism by defending Suarez. Not to mention the fact that Firmino never got charged for allegedly abusing Holgate and it was in fact Holgate, who nearly got charged for homophobic language.
 
Its mainly used in america, but its clear that coloured is offensive...its easy not to use it
I don't really understand why people are allowed to get away with either POC or called people coloured they're just the same and are both likely to get you into trouble walking through Toxteth. Also considering, how interracial relationships between Black and Asian people are extremely rare, it doesn't really accurately describe any reality in Britain.
 
This is a problem. We have to be able to describe more subtle forms of racism as racist or it allows it to be more acceptable.

If we didnt use the term "racist" I think more would get it. The problem that is. Thats not to down grade the issue, but folk who write and read the sort of stuff Sterling was on about, (the houses), wouldnt see them selves as racist, in the EDL way that is.

Its easy or lazy stereotyping, which is as bad, but calling folk out as being guilty of stereotyping would perhaps get the wider message over in a quicker way? As in, its easier to accept you are guilty of stereotyping, (we all do it), than being accused of racism, when you dont think you are.

Dunno. Difficult.
 
This is a problem. We have to be able to describe more subtle forms of racism as racist or it allows it to be more acceptable.
I agree I think the problem is that the word has become politicized to use against political opponents, just like the right in America call anybody who isn't a conservative a commy. Also, the awful way the authorities handled the grooming scandals didn't exactly help the cause of political correctness. People can't even agree on what the term liberal or conservative means, never mind what it means to be racist. Some people believe that Corbyn is an an anti Semite, some people believe it's simply right wing propaganda. As I've previously, my parents are from Bosnia, where people regularly refer to their opponents as Fascists and Islamic extremists when in most cases, the labels are completely false. The whole war was caused by people whipping up a hysteria about alleged Fascism and religious extremism.
 
Spot on. I don't understand the idea that labeling something racist is as dangerous as racism. It isn't.
Because different people have a different understanding of what is and what isn't racist. We'd all agree making monkey noises towards a black person is racist, we'd all agree putting a banana on a Black colleagues desk is racist. Ignoring child abuse, because your scared of being called racist, when no Pakistani person ever suggested that investigating the grooming cases was racist is an example of why false accusations of racism are dangerous. Also Cheryl Tweedy, whatever she calls herself, was labelled racist despite the fact, she was married to a Black man at the time. Also people have learnt to start using code words to hide their bigotry, for example rather than saying the Jewish media, they use the term Zionist media.
 
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