[WikiEN-l] Primer on PC (for Ed) (was: Re: Relativism and PC)

Ray Saintonge saintonge at telus.net
Thu Feb 12 21:41:12 UTC 2004


Sean Barrett wrote:

>>if you don't, it implies you would prefer to refer to Blacks
>>as "negroes" or "colored people" again.
>>
>Only a deluded person would prefer the horrifically evil phrase
>"colored people" to the beatifically enlightened "people of color."
>Oh!  Excuse me, I meant "person of delusions."
>
Of course "colored people" had a different meaning in the U.S. and in 
apartheid South Africa.  The term "people of color" tends to be used of 
practically anybody that is not of waspish hue.

Ec





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