"I asked my black roommate in college why you can't say 'coloured people' anymore (which was acceptable ten years prior) and she said she wasn't sure"
The "logic"behind this is that it was considered dehumanising to put anything in front of the "people" part. It's why it became "people of colour." Somehow, black people remained acceptable…
"I asked my black roommate in college why you can't say 'coloured people' anymore (which was acceptable ten years prior) and she said she wasn't sure"
The "logic"behind this is that it was considered dehumanising to put anything in front of the "people" part. It's why it became "people of colour." Somehow, black people remained acceptable though. Maybe "people of blackness" was too ridiculous even for the language police.
Others objected to "coloured" because it separated humanity into white people and everybody else. Which is exactly what "BIPOC" does now. Basically, what I'm saying is, you will find no internal logical consistency. It's just people for whom taking offence is a hobby.
"I asked my black roommate in college why you can't say 'coloured people' anymore (which was acceptable ten years prior) and she said she wasn't sure"
The "logic"behind this is that it was considered dehumanising to put anything in front of the "people" part. It's why it became "people of colour." Somehow, black people remained acceptable though. Maybe "people of blackness" was too ridiculous even for the language police.
Others objected to "coloured" because it separated humanity into white people and everybody else. Which is exactly what "BIPOC" does now. Basically, what I'm saying is, you will find no internal logical consistency. It's just people for whom taking offence is a hobby.