[Politics] Amber Rudd used the word “coloured”

Wardy's twin said:

This incident just proves how bad things have become , no focus on the real issue just people making politic points on Amber Rudd's mistake. Yes she should not have used that word and asa politician she should be more savvy not to have made that mistake but it really is pathetic that she is being hounded and nothing done about the real issue. Note I don't like Amber Rudd.

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Ernest said:

Jeremy Hunt's Foreign Office accused of colonial racism in a job advert
Amber Rudd's 'coloured woman'
Not forgetting the Funny Tinge mob

And people say Labour have a racism problem

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Pavilionaire said:

Rudd says coloured, Abbott shouts racist. How f*cking depressing all of this is!

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lawros left foot said:

The term’ coloured’ was used as a derogatory racist term in the US. It was also used in South Africa to describe racial groups who weren’t Black or White, therefore it is seen as derogatory to use it against any person of colour today. If you’re a White person and can’t understand why this is seen as offensive by non-White people, perhaps, just don’t use that term.
Unless, of course you want to offend.

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Diablo said:

"women of colour" or "coloured women" what`s the difference ?

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lawros left foot said:

The term’ coloured’ was used as a derogatory racist term in the US. It was also used in South Africa to describe racial groups who weren’t Black or White, therefore it is seen as derogatory to use it against any person of colour today. If you’re a White person and can’t understand why this is seen as offensive by non-White people, perhaps, just don’t use that term.
Unless, of course you want to offend.

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beorhthelm said:

one is acceptable, one isnt apparently. ive heard black people say "coloured". dont even start on the whole mix race/hertiage issue, and who's blacker than who. i think its time we stopped such stupidity.

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Harry Wilson's tackle said:

Abbott had an opportunity to acknowledge that although Rudd may be many things, she is simply using antiquated language in a naive way, and is not being racist. However, that would have required a bit of perspective, and a realisation that it would have been far more hurtful to Rudd to be gently patronised than be absurdly accused of racism. But that would have required Abbott not being a polical flat track bully, a lazy self-indulgent hypocrital intellectual and cultural pygmy.

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Bold Seagull said:

Not something I find myself feeling particularly anxious about, because I can function in life without needing to call everyone who isn't white, coloured, a person of colour, a funny tinge or anything else. We are all people of colour.

I'd go to football with my grandad who is now 97 and still going to games regularly, and he'd sit counting during the warm up, 1,2,3,4,5...I'd ask 'what are you counting?', '6 coloured lads in the starting line up today'. Didn't matter they were black, mixed race, asian, or whatever else, just that there were 6 non whites in the team. Completely racist mindset beyond any equivocal doubt. Harmless, and without any hate I might add, but you can bet your life when he was hiring for his business, he would have discriminated. I pulled him up on it once or twice, and he said 'what am I meant to call them then?' and at that point, I knew what he was and there was no changing him, as much as I tried to explain what he was saying actually meant.

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Albion Prem said:

Could not agree more,years ago there were just white,half caste and black,half caste[mixed parents] went out of fashion and replaced by coffee coloured, no idea now whether black or coloured is correct

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Knocky's Nose said:

A huge one, it seems. Absolute bollocks...

Here's a whole new level of bollocks though : Colourism

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-47468011

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lawros left foot said:

My point, not very succinctly put, is that if anybody objects to a term used to describe them, be it racist, size, hair colour, sexuality, or disability, then, whatever anybody else thinks, those terms are derogatory.
It doesn’t matter if you or me disagree with the definition of what is abusive or not, unless we are the ones being abused.

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Bold Seagull said:

Why? For most considerate people, it's pretty easy not to offend people. I wouldn't walk up to a fat person and say, good morning aren't you obese even though it might be a factual statement, why because unless you know someone, or are familiar with rhetoric a particular group of people adopt around each other, most people are able to avoid offending people unless they intend it.

Back to this case, Amber Rudd is a representative of her constituents in Parliament and is extremely well renumerated to do so. In carrying out the responsibilities of office, it really is incumbent on MPs in exercising their duties whether to the media, or the public to observe some basic aspects of common sense and knowing how to phrase things.

I suspect most people on here, regardless of whether they think the reaction is pathetic, or justified, wouldn't address a black or any other person as coloured. If you were picking out a person you wouldn't say, "not the white women, the coloured women next to her..." think about it, I suspect most of us wouldn't, because faux outrage or not, we know it's not a thing to say.

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