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Quoted from Rick12

Well said .The irony of all of this is early humans were all  originally coloured stemming from the rift valley in East Africa. Its only once we started shifting from the mother continent that differing skin tones started to manifest themselves and paler complexions started to occur .

Its why sometimes you have to turn from man to nature for answers. At least there we see things how things once were before man came and damaged the delicate balance of the ecosystem.

Quoted from KingstonMariner

Quite apart from the fact his remarks were offensive*, it shows he just doesn’t care enough about people to have made the effort to change. He’ll have had plenty of opportunities to learn by now being in such a high profile role. If he doesn’t have enough care in these matters, he won’t have a care for what anyone else thinks (including all of us and our interests in the game). Sloppy. Just sloppy.

* if you don’t think “coloured” is offensive, then do people who are not “coloured” have transparent skin FFS?

As for questions like “when was it decided that ‘coloured’ was not an acceptable term to use for black people?” Well I became aware it wasn’t in the 1970s (in Cleethorpes), so people have had plenty of time to get used to the idea.

Quoted from Sir Matt Tease

When will this PC madness end. Every day, it seems, someone else falls foul of the New Censors. They are accused of either offending the diktats of political correctness or are deemed guilty of so-called cultural appropriation (the act of using things from another culture).
Among the most dangerous New Censors are those found in universities — not only politically over-sensitive students but lecturers wedded to this Left-wing ideology. This is another examples of how political correctness has become an obsession in many sections of the metropolitan, Liberal Left. A self-appointed priesthood now ruthlessly polices language and behaviour for any signs of heresy that their diktats state are unacceptable. They have established a code of conduct against ‘crimes’ such as so-called ‘micro-aggressions’ — ‘brief and commonplace daily verbal, behavioural and environmental indignities’ that are said to communicate hostility.
But far from promoting a tolerant society — which is their proclaimed aim — this bullying brand of identity politics simply creates friction between people, as well as discord and suspicion. Crucially, it silences debate — and free speech is undermined and common sense lost. I for one was no fan of this man however if everybody who fails to use the correct terminology is forced to resign our jobless figures in this country will increase exponentially.
By the way, I am from today identifying as female and wish to be addressed as Mrs Tease !

Quoted from pen penfras

None of that is really relevant to the point of what is and isn't socially acceptable. Is calling somebody "coloured" racist? I don't really see how, it's just a word. But then the "N" word is just a word, and we all know that is wrong.

Is referring to South Asians wanting to do jobs with computers racist? Sort of, it's certainly stereotyping them.

Is saying that women don't like the ball being kicked at them hard? Again, it's stereotyping them.

I'm sure most people on here would disagree with being called a rich white man if they went on holiday to the Caribbean. And although it's not inherently offensive, many people that they would place in that category would feel that they really aren't very well off at all when back home.

Quoted from Rodley Mariner

Heart breaks that some middle aged and old white men on the Fishy can no longer thoughtlessly say what they want without being pulled up on it. Puts the struggles of others around the world into some context.

Quoted from Rick12

Yes you cant stereotype as we are all unique people in our own right and should be judged on that .

Ive got a bit of Latin in me and it annoys me when you keep getting some who ignore most of my English roots and just pick up on the small part of me that is Latin and keep  "tarring me with Latin stereotypes " . Crikey even the Queen of England has Spanish, German blood in her  to name but a few.

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Quoted from Ipswin

Yours is a classic example Rick of how similar folk can react quite differently

You get annoyed with people picking up on on your 'Latin' heritage, fair enough, but there are those who would be so proud of it that they would be drunk off if people didn't make mention of it

There are certainly as many black people who want to be constantly recognised as black as there are those who scream racism every time their colour (sorry but there is no other way of saying it) black is, as they see it, unnecessarily mentioned