When actress Halle Berry netted the best actress award at the 2002 Oscars she dedicated her gong to "every nameless, faceless woman of colour".
We are all coloured, no such thing as a white or black skin, present day terms are incorrect.
Now racist as well
.....referring to someone as a coloured person is completely different to saying people are of different colours. The former is saying she is different to you, the second is an acceptance of fact! x
Every day, mainstream media like your newspaper are becoming irrelevant. Never seen anybody below 60 reading the Telegraph. Hopefully when they all die, your rag would die with them.
PC? Let's start with regular use of the word 'YID' to describe Jews. The days are gone when institutionally racist mainstream media gets to define any agenda. Bet you wouldn't be saying this bullshit if Abbott had referred to Ruud as a Yid! Credit to Abbott, she's been gracious
Diane Abbott lives to be offended!😤😂
What a sample the Cabinet is there all bloody Incompitant should be sacked not fit to be MPs utter disgrace but Resign no they will not like £100 00 they get C Cars all perks there dam disgrace .
Why not use this line of argument against critics of Labour’s anti-semitism or Tory Islamophobia? Then racists can get on with being racist and any criticism can be brushed away as PC madness.
No political correctness is an abused term for once what was common courtesy!
People would have forgiven her if she weren't such a vile excuse for a human being. She is responsible for horrendous crimes against the British public and should be charged with involuntary manslaughter.
Fully agree. Next thing we won’t be able to call her a woman in case that’s sexist. This political correctness and “hurt my feelings” bullshit has gone too far.
It shud b an issue, it certainly not a reflection that rudd is a racist, but it is an issue the mp R considered 2b the lead by example of societal norms & considered practice. She shud highlight that coloured is not correct & she did so swiftly.
I know. It's terrible you can't go around offending people for fun anymore. But the World goes on. If you don't like it, find another one. One way back in the past where racism and bigotry were a right laugh. And everyone was too ignorant to notice. Your perfect year? 1933?
Agree NI minister should be sacked. Rudd should just be voted out at the next election.
Exactly my feeling. The wheel is changing so quick that by the time we know the correct terminologies.. it has then changed. It's like educating our kids then it changes by the time they finish school. We need to see if some one is using the term for offense or not. GrowUp
She should have never apologised. Political correctness is eating the fabric of democracy, there's such a fine line now between what is PC and what isn't that the spirit of speech is being demonized. And I don't really know if what I just said makes sense.
Yeah! Screw them blackies, the real problem is anti-Semitism innit!
I think it’s more fundamental, humanity finds it a strain to manage diversity and multiculturalism it’s too keyed into its tribal origins, it will fracture and fragment just like every other example in history. Have fun!
Surely both terms means exactly the same thing!!
Lefties have kicked up a fuss over the former euphemism 'coloured', while the racial slur 'Gammon', a reference to pink flesh, the equivalent of 'Bushmeat', is fashionable among their number and has even been added to Collins Dictionary as word of the year.
Good. We need to be be less shocked, offended and outraged by very inoffensive words.
So if I say coloured am wrong and am racist so do I say Afro Caribbean or ethnic so I don’t know whats right or wrong and I can truly say that am no racist/so if I was called white is that racist wow minefield
Spot on reporting!
It's to be hoped that the compassion for Amber Rudd's 'mis-speaking' expressed here, extended to Diane Abbott's mistake over numbers. I agree that the media is too quick to beat people to a pulp. Correction is necessary; vilification is not.
Veritas1701 Just call them out as bullshit merchants.
Will Amber Rude now transfer dear Diana's name from her colouring book to her black book ?
Why can't we continue being what we are? Why do we force changes on us? Why are we not allow to be the shite we are? Ohhh how I miss to freely satisfy our ago, carry on thinking we are so much better than other human beings, we are the superior race get it get on with it!! Right!
Couldn’t read the whole article, but the opening paragraphs read like a white person complaining that nobody thinks of white people. Yawn.
PC has gone mad. You can't even get into a bath with a hair dryer these days.
'Sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me' is an old response to 'hurtful' language. Pity that politically correct speech ever infantilised our media.