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[mr.dilya]

Anybody else who is not white feel the same way?

Whenever this phrase is used it assumes that non-whites are the “other” contrast to the standard which is “White.” I refuse that label. I don’t have anything against whites like the brain dead sjw crowd, but white people are the worldwide minority, in reality they are the colored people.

Whenever non whites call themselves people of color or colored they are conceding authority to the white power structure they claim to be fighting against.

Also, not every person of colors circumstances are the same. That shit needs to end too.

 

[LemmingWithaParachute]

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[MilkyJoe]

Anybody else who is not white feel the same way?

Whenever this phrase is used it assumes that non-whites are the “other” contrast to the standard which is “White.” I refuse that label. I don’t have anything against whites like the brain dead sjw crowd, but white people are the worldwide minority, in reality they are the colored people.

Whenever non whites call themselves people of color or colored they are conceding authority to the white power structure they claim to be fighting against.

Also, not every person of colors circumstances are the same. That shit needs to end too.

I'm a honkey and I've always thought this. Lefties have no idea how condescending and racist they are with shit like this.

 

[JordanN]

I always get a chuckle when I'm called "white" here.

 

[Dee Dah Dave]

”Coloured person” and “person of colour“ sound the same thing to me, so I don’t get why one is supposedly okay and the other isn’t.

 

[Nymphae]

Also, how are caucasians not a colour. We're not "white" the way black people aren't "black" (which is often described as the absence of colour) I would be really curious to know when the shift from coloured person being bad to person of colour being not only acceptable but the woke term of choice happened.

 

[Gargus]

Person of color, African american, etc are just phrases used to divide people up based on the color of skin. We should do NOTHING that separates us based on skin color in negative or even "positive" ways because all it does is separate us. We need to Foster real equality by actually being equal.

The only time skin color should come up is when describing someone "yeah he will meet you there at 5. He is a black dude with a green shirt" or "yes officer the guy who stole it was white" or whatever.

 

[mortal]

I've always found the term to be pretty dumb and antiquated tbh.

Humans of every race have a skin tone. Which is indicative of the amount of melanin pigment they have. One of the most obvious examples being white people are light skinned and black people are generally darker skinned. There are even Asians that are paler than some white people, yet all Asians are considered "people of color" some how. There are phenotypes of all kinds in-between, the human gene pool is much too varied for such a binary categorization.

I agree that the term "people of color" is just an othering term. I always find it funny when some people lose their shit at the term "colored person", despite it serving the same exact function as a descriptor lol

 

[Steve.1981]

”Coloured person” and “person of colour“ sound the same thing to me, so I don’t get why one is supposedly okay and the other isn’t.

Was going to say the same thing. Growing up I was taught that "Coloured" was offensive. End of story.

This is one of the many problems I have with modern liberalism. We're twisted up in a confusing maze of nonsense. It pisses me off.

 

[Sub_Level]

I always get a chuckle when I'm called "white" here.

You're something worse. You're a leaf.

Day of the rake soon. You'll be among the first to go.

 

[Mihos]

My family is mixed, even my extended family.

Of course according Era, at least 1/3rd of us are racist

 

[Grand Theft Scratchy]

I'm white but I always thought "person of color" and "colored person" sounded like strange descriptors and have never felt the need to use them. Thankfully most people I've known don't try to sound politically-correct but there have been one or two times I've noticed someone lower their voice a little when saying "black". Honestly, that anyone should feel a little afraid or embarrassed to say what they mean is worrying.

 

[Cunth]

You’re not a crayon?

 

[SLoWMoTIoN]

I always get a chuckle when I'm called "white" here.

Are you a native canadian then

 

[Guy_who_thinks_hes_cool]

Thats ok bud, sometimes we just have to stay in our shell a little longer than normal

 

[Mista]

No. I only hear that in movies that were made in the 60s/70s

 

[SpartanN92]

I’m the white devil I’m afraid.

 

[TindalosPup]

I've disliked that terminology myself since I was young. It was kind of insinuated that it was offensive when I grew up and I never understood why people still use it

I've been told before that I was "too dark to date"... The person assumed I had Puerto Rican or Mexican heritage (dude seemed pretty racist), but I have none that I'm aware of; I've got a good dose of Mediterranean, giving me an olive tone that tans nicely. I've also been told I'm some sort of Asian and been called a derogatory name for such based on my slightly slanted eye shape. Growing up inner city was interesting being racially ambiguous in appearance

By my known heritage I'd be white (Scandinavian, Mediterranean, European, with a dash of Native American), but I've been told I'm not by others many times in my life

It's all just a dumb way to try to keep people separated and widen the gap, but down the line (especially with the population as big as it is now) we'll all be mixed up enough where it won't matter anymore

It really shouldn't matter now, though

 

[Slings and Arrows]

When I'm mad I turn red
When I'm ill I turn green
When I'm cold I turn blue
When I'm tanned I turn brown...

Yet I'm not a person of colour (I'm white)

 

[synchronicity]

Yep, I'm white as can be (Scandinavian heritage), and I totally agree.

People underestimate the power of language to inform the structure of things. It can be insidious in the manner it infiltrates and shapes if you don't watch carefully.

 

[DeepEnigma]

”Coloured person” and “person of colour“ sound the same thing to me, so I don’t get why one is supposedly okay and the other isn’t.

Because the party of Jim Crow's word started getting a bad rap, as it should, so they changed the phrasing tactic for the same damned thing.

 

[Fbh]

Can't say I've talked with that many english speakers in person, but it mostly seems to be used by people who are somehow afraid to talk about race or skin color.... as if saying someone is "black" or "Asian" is wrong

 

[mr.dilya]

I'm white but I always thought "person of color" and "colored person" sounded like strange descriptors and have never felt the need to use them. Thankfully most people I've known don't try to sound politically-correct but there have been one or two times I've noticed someone lower their voice a little when saying "black". Honestly, that anyone should feel a little afraid or embarrassed to say what they mean is worrying.

Yeah that's another thing I noticed, A lot of black people in the media referring to themselves as people of color instead of black. I don't recall that being a thing until farily recently.

 

[Kamina]

We humans are all just variing shades of brown to baige.

 

[taizuke]

When I'm mad I turn red
When I'm ill I turn green
When I'm cold I turn blue
When I'm tanned I turn brown...

Yet I'm not a person of colour (I'm white)

Eddie Griffin agrees:

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[triplestation]

i always felt i should have been japanese

 

[Grinchy]

It's the same mentality of grouping up everyone in the LGBBQ group. Being a gay man and being born with both sexual organs (intersex) have nothing to do with each other whatsoever.

But, if you force everyone into the group, you get more people in your "cause!" So, everyone who isn't white is now in the same group, and you're all oppressed compared to white people. As a PONC, it's pretty annoying.

 

[poppabk]

I'm white but I always thought "person of color" and "colored person" sounded like strange descriptors and have never felt the need to use them. Thankfully most people I've known don't try to sound politically-correct but there have been one or two times I've noticed someone lower their voice a little when saying "black". Honestly, that anyone should feel a little afraid or embarrassed to say what they mean is worrying.

Black used to be racial epithet adjacent. That's the weird thing with these terms is that the acceptable and unnacceptable terms change over time, leaving people afraid to use any term in case it's the wrong one. They also vary by region, someone of Spanish descent in America is a person of color, in Europe they are white.

 

[Scotty W]

Was going to say the same thing. Growing up I was taught that "Coloured" was offensive. End of story.

My guess is that ‘coloured’ was once an inoffensive word, but that it has fallen victim to the euphemism treadmill. The N word in latin just means black, then colored, then black, then african american, then person of color, then something else.

You can also see the euphemism treadmill at work with gays and handicapped people. Idiot, retarded (which just means slow), handicapped, differently abled, then ‘you do not get any words tk describe me, bigot’.

 

[Faenrir]

Black, white, none of that should even be mentionned.
Once no one refers to others by their skin color, then we'll be past all this.

There's no difference between individuals...and by that i mean there's tons of differences between individuals. We're all different, it's time to just accept others aren't you and everyone is unique and doesn't need to be identified through a stereotype.

I'm hopeful when i see how kids treat each other, they seem to make less differences nowadays.

 

[TaySan]

As someone of mixed heritage i don't think it's my place to tell other people how they refer to themselves. Though i personally never liked "coloured" that sounds like jim crow era racism talk to me.

 

[ILLtown]

I don't really get the term either.

I'm old enough to remember when people used the term "coloured people" or, even worse, "coloureds", and that was mostly done by racist white people who wanted to differentiate themselves from people who weren't white.

If people want to kind of "retake" the term and change it to "people of colour" fine, I guess, but I don't really see what purpose it serves over just saying "I'm Korean" or "I'm black" or "I'm Chinese" or whatever.

When is it really that useful to bundle all non-white people up together, or even all white people for that matter?

 

[Stiflers Mom]

Before the internet I didn't even think of people as "people of color". And I still don't really do.

More like "this dude seems to be from india" and "she seems to be native american", or if I knew where they were from then by their region or country.

Why should I put someone from Peru into the same category as someone from Islamabad.
That's plain stupid.

 

[Papa]

Someone post that comic strip where the right says “colored people” and the left says “people of color”

 

[haxan7]

I’d like to propose a food based naming scheme in lieu of the current system.

whites=vanillas
blacks=chocolates
Asians=lemons
etc.

feel free to elaborate as necessary

 

[highrider]

As a white dude I think I kind of washed my hands of this stuff about a decade ago. Call yourself whatever makes you happy, just don’t expect me to necessarily do the same.

 

[The Lunch Legend]

bruh, we're all black when the lights go out.

 

[EverythingsOverrated]

Ya, I'm technically biracial and I can't stand "people/person of color"

I also can't stand white people that feel like they have to white knight for minorities constantly. The rampant white guilt is entertaining.

I've experienced racism first hand, but these weirdo rich white liberals want to tell me how to feel about racism? Fuck off

 

[The Pleasure]

I always get a chuckle when I'm called "white" here.

Hey cracker. How's it crack a lackin?

 

[funkygunther]

Would you rather be BAME?

 

[Doczu]

I always get a chuckle when I'm called "white" here.

Well either you're white or you're an Uncle Tom.
... You damn leaf...

 

[keraj37]

Like it or not, the european culture dominated the World, and that is why white skins see themself as a point of reference. Nothing really deep here.

 

[Mistake]

White people can turn more colors than anyone else, so I don’t get it either.

 

[Foamy]

i always felt i should have been japanese

Small peepee huh?

 

[TurkPride]

I dont even know what is my race . I am from Turkey btw and here in Turkey most people dont care about racial identities. I mean if you call them as white, black etc. They would be like " what are you even talking about.Isnt white is a color.What does it have to do with race". I and other people from my country just call ourself as Turks.
We dont use those identities such as white,black,yellow etc.

 

[TurkPride]

Before the internet I didn't even think of people as "people of color". And I still don't really do.

More like "this dude seems to be from india" and "she seems to be native american", or if I knew where they were from then by their region or country.

Why should I put someone from Peru into the same category as someone from Islamabad.
That's plain stupid.

I agree, not all asians, whites or black are same people , just because they have same skin olor doesnt mean they are related to each other. A black from somalia and nigerian is not related to each other for example somalians are kushitic people and yet just because they both have same skin color people are categorizing them same which is stupid for me.Same goes for asians or whites too like I said .What does a greek for eample have to do with a norwegian. Even the nations who is geographically close like the ones in east asia.There is no relation between a korean,japanase and a chinese.They all came from different origins,have different histories,cultures and speak completely unrelated languages.We cant categorize them same just because of their looks. The list goes on.People should be categorized by kinship.Not by their looks.
Two natios who is not related to each other may look similar but that doesnt mean they are related or two nations who look completely different can be related to each other.