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.
There’s also such a thing as systemic racism that is very easy to ignore of you’re not affected.
Changing the acceptable terminology every decade is never going desegregate a neighborhood, or shrink demographic wealth disparities, or improve health outcomes, etc. I think it’s mostly a distraction so people can feel like they’re doing something.
Silver bullet fallacy: because something won’t, on its own, turn the world into a paradise, it has no value and shouldn’t be done.
No.
Why are we no longer referring to people as “idiots” and “retards” and “cripples?”
Is that also just a distraction so that people can feel like they’re doing something? Are you, personally, just sticking with the old terminology?
I use whatever terminology is current, because, like I said, it basically makes no difference. Why upset people for no reason?
Pick a lane.
WHY INDEED, YOU MORON.