@the_great_she_elephant wrote:
Springyzone wrote: It's a funny world, where the 4 letter words F & C are often freely used in movies, but the word black can send people into a spin
The difference, I think, is that the F and C words are ubiquitous insults that do not differentiate between colour, race, religion or politics unless accompanied by a defining adjective.
Black, on the other hand is not only descriptive of skin colour but is also used to evoke a sense of the sinister or unpleasant, e.g. Black Mark, Black Sheep, Black Friday, Black Market, Black Magic.
I don't agree. The C word may not differentiate against race but it is certainly related to women, and what i would call a derogatory term.
In the other sayings you mentioned, I see the black as unrelated to race. In literature, analogies are often made between light and dark, storm and sunshine, night and day. They are not racist, I think they are, rather, part of the human experience.
Rather than change every term that has black in it, maybe it would be easier to just call black people brown or some other term. Or else call them by a more exact term. I know the term negro is considered offensive these days. From memory, it never used to be so. I looked it up and it means what i thought it meant "a member of a dark-skinned group of peoples originally native to Africa".
I think that was probably a fairly accurate term for black Americans.
The term can be construed as offensive, inoffensive, or completely neutral, largely depending on the region or country where it is used. It has various equivalents in other languages of Europe.
I can see how the term **bleep** is offensive though. I think any word can be offensive, depending on how it is used.
Since negro is widely taken as offensive now, maybe a word from one of the European languages could be adopted.
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