Lotus wrote:Always a minefield when trying to use different terms to describe people. What one person finds offensive another might have no problem with. There doesn't seem to be a consenses on what a certain 'people' like being called. Often seems to be the way though that the outrage and furore around what term someone's used deflects from whatever issue they were actually trying to talk about.
It’s not really very difficult though is it?
You have your super offensive words that even the most gammony of gammons would accept was offensive . Things like n*gger, p*ki, ch*nk.
Then you have the words your kindly 90 year old grandmother might get away with saying, but everyone else knows is wrong. Things like “coloured”, “half-caste” or “funny tinge” for instance.
Then you have the words that normal people use with no problems. White, Black and Asian for example.
If people want to make important points without creating a furore then they should probably try not being stupid twats when describing people.