I don't normally post about non-football related items BUT.........
an item on BBC's 6pm news this evening has really got my goat. In defending Diane Abbott about the amount of general abuse she receives Amber Rudd has been forced to apologise for referring to her as a coloured lady. If Diane Abbott cannot be described in this way what are we allowed to call her?
Posted By: Highlander, Mar 7, 18:30:48
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Posted By: essexcanaryOTBC, Mar 7, 23:21:14 - If anyone is in ANY doubt about this
Posted By: atlcanary, Mar 7, 21:05:26 - Please!
Posted By: Moritz Moutarde, Mar 7, 20:49:50 - 4apparently the new PC term is 'tinged', according to that new lot of liberals.
Posted By: shoddy, Mar 7, 20:40:12 - You clearly need to learn more about what is considered offensive.
Posted By: norway, Mar 7, 20:22:06 - 1Thirty years ago it was coloured was it not
Posted By: Men without hats, Mar 7, 20:14:38 - 2I think a few have been a bit rough here. Educate, don't be smug.
Posted By: pants, Mar 7, 20:13:45 - 3A woman of colour is the correct phrase. No the biggest deal but coloured
Posted By: pants, Mar 7, 20:11:32 - 3thats the wrong question to ask on here
Posted By: ghostof barry butler, Mar 7, 19:50:26 - You have the manners of a goat. And you smell like a dung-heap.
Posted By: Wild Edric, Mar 7, 19:42:36 - Oh my days
Posted By: Steve in Holland, Mar 7, 19:06:44 - spoken like a true blue
Posted By: Ralf Scrampton, Mar 7, 19:06:14 - "There can be only one"
Posted By: atlcanary, Mar 7, 18:57:02 - Black
Posted By: loz, Mar 7, 18:55:56 - 4You’ve been in the Highlands too long, laddy!
Posted By: Old Git, Mar 7, 18:48:42 - 4To be honest, if it's important to you to still call people of colour, "coloured," I'd
Posted By: Arizona Bay, Mar 7, 18:47:45 - 6Stick to the footy posts Highlander
Posted By: Jumbo1, Mar 7, 18:45:19 - have you been in a cave for the last 20 years?
Posted By: Worzel Scrimmage, Mar 7, 18:36:24 - 1Is this a wind up?
Posted By: SCC 28, Mar 7, 18:35:53 - 4everyone is coloured. Diane is Black.
Posted By: Chris Peacock, Mar 7, 18:35:29 - Black.
Posted By: CWC, Mar 7, 18:34:14
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