Political correctness....

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Well I didn't mean to be racist... But well yeah it came across that way...

My late husband was Cuban... He tried hard to pass as White, he has light skin and he started calling himself "George" instead of Jorge and dropped half his last name... The most Hispanic sounding half, Garcia.

But he had a Cuban accent and didn't speak English perfectly, so as soon as he opened his mouth he was discriminated against...

I would say that some people take “political correctness” too far, e.g. some neurotypicals who have apparently deemed “Asperger’s” a politically incorrect term. Same logic applies to white people who insist that something is offensive to *insert group of colored people* when the thing is actually by and larger not considered offensive by the ethnic group in question. I guess this could could really apply to any majority group that decides something is offensive to a minority group rather than the minority group making this decision for themselves. Granted though, I feel like when majority groups do this they still usually mean well...

The people who b***h and moan about political correctness though, are usually full of hate, at least in my experience. They complain about their “free speech” being regulated as more and more minority groups are given a voice and saying many types of slurs about them becomes widely seen as less acceptable. There are fewer and fewer groups they can get away with punching down on.

Ditto on Facebook ...... !

From what I get I presume you used the word "race"?
Often the preference is ethnicity or "ethnic group" because the word "race" is unPC and also what is the context, whether someone's "race" has anything to do with the discussion, if it's irrelevant, I can see the problem there.

I understand the preference of the wording and the relevance but when they go far... yeah, political correctness and 'cancel culture' are a pain in the ass.

How would one describe a person of African descent? The alternative and its related terms certainly wouldn't be the correct answer.

Is describing someone as a "Polish-American" racist? Or even disparaging to the Polish ethnic group?

This "woke" stuff sometimes goes way too far.

This maybe politically incorrect, but my biology class in high school refers to the humanoid species
Aswell as having the sub genus of Caucasoid, aswell as Negroid, had forgotten what Asiatic persons genus was?
Am quite sure there are various other geniuses and sub species of which , I am not familiar with. But those are the ones , I can recall . So if your running out of ways to refer to people of various descents , am supposing the scientific ones might be appropriate ? OR Not ????

I knew from my teen years and in my early twenties that if you describe anyone by their skin color, that is racist. Notice how we never do that with white people?

"I played video games with my friend, he is white." Why do we do this with different skin color? I even noticed it in the media too. Only exception is if we are looking for a suspect or someone who is missing.

Am not sure I follow, what your saying from a scientific point of veiw? Am not sure if you meant to imply ,
That Caucasoid species doesn’t exist and we are all based on African descent and a minority? Of others?
Am not understanding your statement about obsolete ? Based on biology or what ?

Caucasoid breed ? Of the hominid species? Or humanoid ?

Nope ...never heard of it . Sorry ...... and this discussion is beginning to sound a bit secular in schools of thought .
Am not sure if am dealing with an inherent bias , at this point . But I must plead ignorance , as am merely repeating what had been termed to me by my biology instructor . It does feel as though information has been left out of this
Discussion .