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CBB12 Celebrity Big Brother 12 started 22nd August 2013 and was won by Charlotte Crosby. Discuss here. |
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23-08-2013, 01:51 PM | #51 | |||
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If we were talking about Rugby or cricket then by all means lets discuss the upper echelons of society and their deep set racist ways. And as for "pass it to the black lad" I've seen people done for less. Alan Hanson was castigated for using the word coloured when describing a player. |
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23-08-2013, 01:58 PM | #52 | |||
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I only mentioned that I've heard more racist language from the middle-class than I did from the working class because you had said how inherently racist the working class is! I think you know that though, you're just talking about cricket and "upper echelons" to muddy the waters. That's fine... Coloured is not an acceptable word and quite right Hanson should have been pulled up for it. Although I don't think anyone's going to mind someone saying "pass it to the black lad", and it's quite out of touch to assume that it would be. |
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23-08-2013, 02:03 PM | #53 | |||
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Something inoffensive
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23-08-2013, 02:03 PM | #54 | |||
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So coloured is bang out of order and black is fine? Reet then... |
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23-08-2013, 02:03 PM | #55 | ||
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Well...I think he's probably racist to a degree. There are levels of racism.
Coloured was at one time the more politically correct term (as opposed to the N word) it's become unacceptable. Language shifts. Last edited by DanaC; 23-08-2013 at 02:04 PM. |
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23-08-2013, 02:04 PM | #56 | |||
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Yes. Would you like to know why? Coloured is a term that is associated with apartheid.
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23-08-2013, 02:04 PM | #57 | |||
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23-08-2013, 02:05 PM | #58 | |||
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23-08-2013, 02:06 PM | #59 | ||
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It's also because saying they are 'coloured' suggests that, rather than simply being a different colour to white people (ie two different colours), white people have no colour, they are simply the norm, whereas black people have a colour.
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23-08-2013, 02:06 PM | #60 | |||
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Negro is associated with slaves
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23-08-2013, 02:07 PM | #61 | |||
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23-08-2013, 02:07 PM | #62 | |||
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That was never the case in the black community. I don't know where you get that from.
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23-08-2013, 02:09 PM | #63 | ||
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I think that's more of an American thing: with people wanting tobe called African American instead of black.
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23-08-2013, 02:09 PM | #64 | ||
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Well,People say 'coloured' all the time where i'm from,I grew up hearing it,I'm only in my early 30's.Maybe different words are offensive in certain areas and not in others?
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23-08-2013, 02:10 PM | #65 | |||
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I think it's best if we as people never ever mention anybody's skin colour as anything in case the old PC brigade wheel up and frisk you off for a seminar.
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23-08-2013, 02:10 PM | #66 | |||
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That's not the case either. In my world and my household it has been black for as long as I can remember
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23-08-2013, 02:10 PM | #67 | ||
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I also hear people say coloured. Usually no harm is meant by it.
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23-08-2013, 02:11 PM | #68 | |||
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23-08-2013, 02:12 PM | #69 | ||
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I don't mean all black people in America. I just mean there was a move that came out of America towards the African American label, rather than black. I don't think it was a massive move, I just think it got a lot of airtime (primarily in the form of people having heated arguments and defending their right to continue to use terminology or defending their right not to have to continue to use terminology...:P
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23-08-2013, 02:14 PM | #70 | |||
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..but it wasn't acceptable 30 years ago though..maybe words terminology was used 30 years ago but it wasn't 'acceptable' then either... |
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23-08-2013, 02:14 PM | #71 | |||
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I didn't say "coloured" was bang out of order, I said it was unacceptable. I don't get what's so hard to understand about that. |
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23-08-2013, 02:14 PM | #72 | |||
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23-08-2013, 02:15 PM | #73 | ||
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Never understood why people get so het up about it. If I discover that a word I am accustomed to using is actually offensive to the people that word concerns, why would I wish to dig in my heels against that? An occasional moment's discomfort over not being sure of the currently acceptable word is worth it for a society that tries not to cause hurt to people because of who or what they are. Last edited by DanaC; 23-08-2013 at 02:16 PM. |
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23-08-2013, 02:16 PM | #74 | |||
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And yet... by far the largest group to migrate to the USA was the English, according to the resource centre at Ellis Island. And yet no one ever hears someone described as an English American.
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23-08-2013, 02:17 PM | #75 | |||
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Yeah, that's true actually, I never even thought of that, I wonder why that is?
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