Colored people and cripples

Cardenas mbc at debian.org
Wed Aug 6 12:23:23 PDT 2003


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:
> 
> >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.
> 
> 
> >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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