So What Is Acceptable?

[david small]

I’ve recently had a post removed for using the word coloured. Apparently it was racist. I used the phrase coloured brethren. So what is de rigueur, nowadays?

[barry1010]

Brethren of colour?

[JimF]

I sympathise. I have no idea either, as it seems to change so regularly.

[jno]

de rigueur to avoid seeing a non-racial incident in terms of race?

[archibaldy]

Brethren?

[Arksided]

Looks a bit mean to me:

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/warhammer40k/images/6/66/CorpusBrethren.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20190331042214

[david small]

Virtue signaling seems to be quite the in thing don’t you know?

[david small]

Remember when Gordon Brown called that woman a bigot? How I laughed at the blatant hypocrisy.

[Buenchico]

BAME is usually acceptable as a term meaning 'non-white', whereas 'minority ethnic' is better if one wishes to include white minority groups, such as the Roma.

Here's the advice that the Law Society (who ought to know a thing or two about staying the right side of equality legislation) gives to writers:
https://www.lawsociety.org.uk/topics/ethnic-minority-lawyers/a-guide-to-race-and-ethnicity-terminology-and-language

[archibaldy]

// Virtue signalling seems to be quite the in thing don’t you know? //

Don't know about that - but just think about how you might best phrase whatever you were trying to say if you were expressing the same message face-to-face with... Lets pick Mike Tyson, for instance. And that's your answer.

[jno]

how do you know it was removed for using the word coloured?

[FatticusInch]

I’m led to believe that ‘coloured’ is no longer acceptable, it’s either black or mixed-race…..

Until next week maybe?

[douglas9401]

'Colored' might work.

[DTCwordfan]

stained?

[david small]

Lol….the worlds gone mad.

[Sqad]

The AB rules are in fact "guidance" and is up to you and the Mods to interpret them as you will.
The Mods will have the final say.

There will be little or no support from management, so when posting always be prepared for your post to be deleted without question.

Acceptability only applies to Mods, as you don't get that choice.

[THECORBYLOON]

"The Mods will have the final say." no, the EDs will have the final say.

[Buenchico]

I'm actually stunned that anywhere here should even consider 'coloured' to be an acceptable term when describing non-white groups or individuals.

When I worked for Sheffield City Council 40 years ago it was an automatic suspension offence, possibly leading to dismissal, to be heard using that term.

Even before that, when I was at secondary school in the late sixties we were told that it was unacceptable. So I would have hoped that the message might have got through to most people by now!

[THECORBYLOON]

Folk are not allowed to ask about a deleted post but you are asking what to use instead of a phrase that has not been acceptable for decades.

Rather than the world going mad, have you considered it might be you who is stuck in the past instead of moving on?

[anneasquith]

Black ..

[naomi24]

The removal of any post depends upon who is reading it.