Rep. Eli Crane, R-Ariz. referred to Black people as "colored people" Thursday in floor debate over his proposed amendment to an annual defense policy bill, prompting a stern rebuke from the former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus. Lawmakers were debating a series of GOP-backed amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act, which the House aims to pass by the end of the week.
Okay so colored people is bad but people of color is good? What is the fucking difference lol.
One puts color first and has been used by racists for centuries to dehumanizing people. The other puts the fact that they are people first, and comes from the oppressed community as a response to colored people.
The NAACP is older than the term people of color and has kept the original name for traditional reasons and because the context of the name fornthe organization means it isn’t being used by racists to discriminate.
Why would anyone even waste their time reading into things this much. More ways to be called a racist then there’s laws.
Because it leads to measurable difference in empathy response:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1528-1167.2008.01899.x
The human brain is weird and wired wrong for modern life. The best way to master our worst impulses is to try and do small things that nudge it in the right direction.
If you’ve ever done Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, it’s a similar idea. Identify behaviours you can practice that help you think the way you want to think.
That’s a really cool study.
People are very quick to discard unconscious biases because they think they’re above it, but they’re not.
You can understand your biases and try to account for it, but unless you really delve into them you won’t know.
Black/African Americans who experienced racism decided they were sick of being called colored people by racists for a couple centuries, and as part of the civil right movement the switch to person of color was adopted to replace it. They didn’t waste time, they reacted to their environment and some other people were willing to listen and respect their self determined group label.
The explanation was pretty simple, maybe you should read it again.
Oh I don’t know, I imagine your ancestors being enslaved for a few hundred years probably affects your point of view quite a bit.
The entire history of the phrases and the people that have used them?
Language is not, and never has been, purely logical, in case this is somehow news to you.
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