Re:How my company is lowering the bar to increase diversity
by alistproducer2 on Sunday May 08, 2016 @07:40PM
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The author refers to African-Americans as "blacks" numerous times. In my experience, the only people who use that terminology are racists. I can guarantee you the author is a huge fan of "The Bell Curve." This anecdote is clearly troll bait.
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Re:How my company is lowering the bar to increase diversity
by angersock on Sunday May 08, 2016 @08:55PM
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Your experience appears to be limited.
Re:How my company is lowering the bar to increase diversity
by alistproducer2 on Sunday May 08, 2016 @10:45PM
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Not at all. I've never heard "blacks" used by a non-black person in a context that wasn't racially charged.
Re:How my company is lowering the bar to increase diversity
by angersock on Monday May 09, 2016 @12:27PM
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By the same logic, African-American never comes up without race being a significant part of the context.
I'm mostly surprised because "African-American" is a mouthful compared to just "blacks", so I'm suspicious that in common language it is somehow limited only to racists.
"Blacks" is also more accurate if you just want to refer to people by skin color (for whatever damn-fool reason).