Is this terminology racist?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.thesun.co....hat-it-is-racist.html

Does such ridiculous over-sensitive rulings such as this only go to create more divisions between the races?

It is as ridiculous as saying that sending someone to Coventry is offensive to the people of Coventry.

[anotheoldgit]

WHARTON !!!!!!!!!!

You are Blacklisted.

[FredPuli43]

How about 'pinklist' as the opposite of 'blacklist'?

[Wharton]

aog - I only asked. My pet snake doesn't care what colour they are.

[anotheoldgit]

sp1814

/// What The Daily Mail has sneakily done, is focus on a trivial number of complaints, and then broadcast it on their site as another example of people 'crying racism'. ///

Seems trivial I know taking into account the number of objectors, but it is serious enough to force a BBC spokesperson to make a comment, enough even to suggest that a U-Turn in the story line may take place.

/// A spokesman for the BBC said the show had featured adulterers in the past, adding that Carl’s plotline may yet reveal he has not been unfaithful ///

[DTCwordfan]

pinklist - thats's discriminatory against gays. In fact why don't bian the word "list"

shopping list = shopping memorandum
shipping list = shipping agenda
wish list = desire note
top ten list = top ten reference

and so on.

[FredPuli43]

'Pinklist' is discriminatory against gays ? Well, I never. You don't say. I wonder why I chose 'pink' . I thought I was making a subtle joke about language. LOL

[sp1814]

I don't listen to The Archers any more, but I welcome the idea of a black character who's story line could easily be about a white character. As I've said before, the problem with too many British dramas (up until relatively recently) is that whenever writers introduce a black character, their defining feature is their ethnicity, with the resultant storylines evolving from that.

What the producers of The Archers should be congratulated for, is introducing a character with a juicy storyline which is not about them leaving the city to avoid drug and gang culture; for not making the character a DJ; and for not 'playing up' his ethnicity.

Incidentally - this has all happened before with the Scottish character, Jazzer. He's still on the show (at least he was when I was last listening to it):

http://www.guardian.c...r-scottish-stereotype

After a while those whose jobs it is to get 'professionally outraged' soon move on to new stories.

[pdq1]

What next! Blackboard; Whiteboard.

[FredPuli43]

There's a difference between white and black being used to describe a 'colour' ;blackboard, white board, blackbird, white lining, white Christmas; and another quality; blacklist, blackguard, blackmail.

Mind, that doesn't matter to those who would find racial references whenever black or white appears in the second category of words or phrases.

[ChocolatChip]

I don't know if anyone has said this previous, so I apologise if anyone has...
But then does this mean that they will have to get rid of the term 'in the black/in the red'?
Last time I checked that has a positive connotation, unless you're red, I guess!

[humbersloop]

I'm always amazed Scunthorpe gets through the swear filters, but there you are..

[ludwig]

No, it isn't racist. I don't think the origin or use of it has anything to do with race.

[naomi24]

No. This is stupid. People who look to find racial connotations where there are none exacerbate racism.

[sp1814]

naomi24

Don't think that racism could actually be encouraged by
over-sensitive individuals. It takes way more than that to create a racist. A man who works with women who pick up on every (possibly) sexist statement he makes isn't going to hate all women.

A racist doesn't become a racist because he or she is deluged with what they see as 'PC gone mad'.

Racism was alive and kicking way before the term 'PC' was coined.

[naomi24]

SP, //Don't think that racism could actually be encouraged by over-sensitive individuals.//

Oh, but I most definitely do. We had a thread on here just a few days ago about a television advert – a cartoon - that depicted an overweight black lady. So eager were those who instantly saw racism in it to cry ‘racism’, they completely missed the thin black man and the two fat white characters. I watched that advert and it amused me, but racism wouldn’t have occurred to me until those people mentioned it. Actually, I believe you, yourself, may have contributed to that thread saying the advert wasn’t racist. People like that do far more harm than good.

[bert_h]

For goodness' sake. How long will they continue to allow chess players to play with WHITE and BLACK pieces, especially since Black is traditionally the underdog at the beginning?

[sp1814]

naomi24

I recall that thread, but the point I was trying to make earlier this evening was that people on that thread who pointed out how he ad could be misconstrued as racist didn't make you[i more racist, or contribute to a rising level of racism.

I think what [i]can] happen is that people can become 'desensitised' if they are faced with what they perceive as a barrage of news stories which have dubious merit...

...and the problem is - we have no control over what some sections of the press decide to print. The only stories which stick in the mind are the ones which generate the response, "That's ridiculous'.

There's little value in reporting stories that trigger no emotional response, especially now with new media and online editors measuring the value of news stories with the amount of click views and page impressions.

[sp1814]

Dreadful typing in that last post.

Dreadful...

[naomi24]

SP, no, it didn’t make me racist - but it made me angry. We’ve now reached a stage where little can be said or done without it being misconstrued by those who wish to appear to be politically correct. If anyone needs desensitising it’s those people because they create disharmony and conflict where there is none.

[jomifl]

Eccles, Blue and green hats don't work very well in a black and white(hush my mouth) film.