once again, we can count on Tim May to contribute the least productive comment to this thread. On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 12:01:48PM -0700, Tim May wrote:

On Wednesday, August 6, 2003, at 10:59 AM, Tyler Durden wrote:

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Tim May wrote...

"Where did this "of color" nonsense get started?"

Like a lot of PC terms...from guilt-ridden white liberals. Black folks never use this term, as far as I've ever heard.

I hear them using this _frequently_. Just about any time I see a fat negro chick on one of the talk shows (CNN, MSNBC, etc.) I can count on her using the phrase "blahblah of color" several times.

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Likewise with "physically challenged". My black karate Sensei used to periodically laugh at the shame and embarassment associated with any speech "coloration"...to the point where some people won't even mention skin color when describing another person.

Again, I hear the cripples using the phrases "physically challenged" _frequently_.

It's not enough that cripples always get the best parking places, by law, but they want all "Handicapped" signs replaced with more PC terms.

(I may start pulling cores on their tires after seeing so many apparently-fully-mobile persons getting out of their cars and vans with the "Handicapped" placards. Here in California, an entire industry of scammers and willing doctors has emerged to get more and more people declared "Disabled" and thus eligible for the special placards and, of course, taxpayer-paid-for free stuff.)

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Or you can flip that arguement on its head and say it's the politially correct hidden racist honkey's way of saying non-white in the usual nasty way, opressing the brothers. ----------------------Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--------------------------- + ^ + :25Kliters anthrax, 38K liters botulinum toxin, 500 tons of /|\ \|/ :sarin, mustard and VX gas, mobile bio-weapons labs, nukular /\|/\ <--*-->:weapons.. Reasons for war on Iraq - GWB 2003-01-28 speech. \/|\/ /|\ :Found to date: 0. Cost of war: $800,000,000,000 USD. \|/ + v + : The look on Sadam's face - priceless! --------_sunder_@_sunder_._net_------- http://www.sunder.net ------------ On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Billy Goto wrote:

As a white man, I find the implication that I'm lacking some "color" based on my race to be offensive. I often hear "of color" used (Pacifica radio is quite guilty) as a term of exclusion and division, implying that white people are soulless: they can't jump, can't dance, can't fuck, and can't understand social justice. Frankly, as a racist term.