Were people really using phrases like "people of color" in the early 90s?
Were people really using phrases like "people of color" in the early 90s?
This is going to come as a shock to you but being “””woke””” and things like academic discussion of discrimination, books about that shit and spread of philosophy wasn’t invented in 2012.
The American Heritage Guide to Contemporary Usage and Style cites usage of "people of colour" as far back as 1796.
Yeah, we've been going downhill since the Civil Rights Act
I was around in the 90s and 00s. Maybe in academic circles there was a distinction, but in common parlance a whitey referring to "people of color" would have sounded the same as using "colored person", and Kurt did not become prominent through his academic discourse
Yeah, Curt couldn's top racists and homophobes from listening to Nirvana, and that's why he killed himself.
Just like Ian Stewart from Skrewdriver killed himself when he realized blacks and Jews were listening to Skrewdriver.
Sometimes it's just better to keep your mouth shut, and take the money.
Yes. Calling them black in the 90s was racist and we were supposed to call them "coloured". Then in the 2000s people could no longer use the term "coloured" and anyone who did was a racist. So we were told to say "black", then in the 2010s we could no longer say "black" and instead had to say "people of color" once again, and now I don't know what the fuck we're supposed to say. I'm confused just writing all of this.
I'm so fucking tired and fed up.
And remember da leftists are da real racists
All hail Tommy Zionson, defender of da West
stephen yaxley lennon needs to get killed by a white man
The 90s was the first PC era. How soon people forget.
What a way Ian killed himself with his steering wheel becoming detached while driving his car.
Were people really using phrases like "people of color" in the early 90s?
African American came out of the 1980s. When mainstream society gets more conservative, counter culture gets faggier and vice versa.
this is wrong. in the 90s, you were supposed to call them African-American. both "black" and "colored" (and versions thereof) were considered to be vaguely racist holdovers from the 70s, ie the word your vaguely racist grandpa would use (not to be confused with your outwardly racist grandpa who would use the n word)
t. old
Were people really using phrases like "people of color" in the early 90s?
no they weren't, and that's not a term used in the quote you posted anyway
It says "people of A different color", numnut.
Yes. Calling them black in the 90s was racist and we were supposed to call them "coloured"
utter nonsense, its was the exact opposite, black was fine, coloured / colored was not fine
This guy was such a faggot jesus, thank god he's dead
:(
The 90s was the first PC era
It sure wasn't down in Florida
shut the fawk up dude i hate fags
this faggot would be insufferable today
coloured / colored was not fine
There was both a band and and a tv show in the 90s called Living Color. Nobody knows what to call those people without offending them.
image says “people of a different colour” and not “people of colour”
thread still keeps circlejerking and not pointing this out
Further proof that Anon Babble is now filled with bots.
He's saying "people of a different color" which is subtly different, maybe too subtly for someone like you...
Anyway, what's your point? That the turn of phrase and exact choice of words is of more note than what he's saying?
and now I don't know what the fuck we're supposed to say.
just call them what they are...
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Much like you are?
this is an 80s comic strip
I'm really glad the kids have turned against grunge. I hated it then and I only hate it more as I've grown older.
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This leads to, I think it was Britney actually, referring to someone as an English African-American from Jamaica.
nig-
"People of color" still strikes me as having a feel of antebellum racism, akin to calling someone a "quadroon" or whatever.
Americans are weird anyway tho.
If it makes you feel any better "People of color" wasn't something anyone ever said during that period.
"people of a different color" isn't the same as "people of color" though
I'm really glad the kids have turned against grunge.
?? nirvana's one of the most listened bands in the world rn, if anything grunge has an outsized presence
Well what's wrong with "african-american", if anything? Part of the problem is that the individual histories are lost. We should have terms like mandinko-american, igbo-american, yoruba-american, ashanti-american etc...
But these people lost their history and were force race-mixed over tribal boundaries by their slave-owners, ultimately causing the current day terminology troubles. "Slave-descendant" would be a neutral, correct term, but is unwieldy and brings up slavery on a daily basis.
My dad called them Afro-Americans in the 90s god bless that boomer
I care not for the proclivities of foreigners.
"Free people of colour", ie. non-slave blacks and mulattos, was pretty common usage in the 19th century