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Re:The moral case against equity language by zuminator on Friday March 03, 2023 @02:24AM (#35006790)
Colored People and People of Color are two different things. Colored People was the polite term for blacks 60+ years ago. People of Color means nonwhite. Also, side point, the founders of NAACP included both black, white, and at least one person (Mary Church Terrell) that we would in 2023 consider mixed race. And initially it was predominately led by white Americans.
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Re:The moral case against equity language by bruce343434 on Friday March 03, 2023 @03:22AM (#35007105)
As a non native speaker I would have never known this. Learned something today!
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Re:The moral case against equity language by thinkingemote on Friday March 03, 2023 @03:38AM (#35007194)
And yet we could predict that in 50+ years looking back they will be considered to be the same (and also considered wrong and invalid) and a new term will be proclaimed as valid and good.

The question we should ask is: what actually changed?

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