Is it racist to say "black person"?

[MikaDubbz]

I feel like saying 'person' makes it kinda racist. Not sure why, but saying, "oh he's black," sounds perfectly acceptable to me. yet saying, "oh he's a black person," immediately sounds wrong.

 

[Kioku]

Is it racist to say "White Men Can't Jump"?

 

[FanmadeEndings]

If it is said to discriminate said person based on his / her skin color, yes. If you, for example, wanted to specify to someone else who you are talking about out of a group of people he barely knows and the most obvious detail that fits that specific person is his different skin color, then no. You can't be "racist on accident". Words aren't racist, people are. It depends on what you want to express rather then what you say.

 

[Viri]

Seeing this video, made me think of this thread.

 

[SG854]

Only if you don't say No Homo

 

[subcon959]

Was that line really worth the 2 year necro?

 

[Deleted User]

Was that line really worth the 2 year necro?

He should have said only if the basketballs touch.

 

[Jayro]

No worse than calling the COVID-19 virus the "Chinese Virus". You're just stating it's origin in the wording.

 

[Frankbel]

in italian it would be "n**** di merda" but also n**** has a racist taste.
Some words become politically correct:
handicapped--> having an handicap--> disabled --> having a disability --> less abled --> different abled,
and maybe in the future there will be another term to denote the handicapped subset of the population
Let me say, perhaps one day black person will negatively denote the people with darker skin.

 

[Mythical]

From what I've been told you're supposed to say "People of Color" and never "Colored People".
People don't seem to be mind being called "Black" , but sometimes it's not possible to tell someone's ethnicity (technically you're just assuming if they don't tell you really) so saying Black might be wrong.
To be honest it hasn't come up in a conversation I've had except talking Tom Hanks (I think it was Tom Hanks)

 

[FGFlann]

"People of Color" and never "Colored People".

What's the difference?

 

[Mythical]

What's the difference?

It's degrading and remiscant of another more rascist time (old term that is outdated and offends people like the n word)

 

[FGFlann]

It's degrading and remiscant of another more rascist time (old term that is outdated and offends people like the n word)

But it's the same.

 

[VinsCool]

Okay I think this thread ran its course, no need to bring it back to life nearly 2 years later out of nowhere.