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Re:How my company is lowering the bar to increase diversity by alistproducer2 on Sunday May 08, 2016 @10:45PM (#11657297)
Not at all. I've never heard "blacks" used by a non-black person in a context that wasn't racially charged.
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Re:How my company is lowering the bar to increase diversity by angersock on Monday May 09, 2016 @12:27PM (#11661021)
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).

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