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Am Sonntag, 30. Juli 2017 15:37:29 UTC+2 schrieb Ed Pawlowski:
> On 7/30/2017 8:24 AM, wrote:
> > On Sat, 29 Jul 2017 20:02:21 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> > > wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> "dsi1" > wrote in message
> >> ...
> >> On Saturday, July 29, 2017 at 9:40:19 AM UTC-10, Julie Bove wrote:
> >>> "barbie gee" > wrote in message
> >>> hcrg.pbz...
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On Thu, 27 Jul 2017, Julie Bove wrote:
> >>>>> India Supermarket.
> >>>> ...
> >>>>> obviously tailored to what Indian people might want. But... When I
> >>>>> asked
> >>>>> about it, someone actually told me that I shouldn't go there because
> >>>>> I'm
> >>>>> white. Because of this comment, I felt a bit fearful to go in.
> >>>>
> >>>> Whoever made that comment is a xenophobic moron.
> >>>>
> >>>> The only way different cultures will come to know each other is if we
> >>>> engage each other.
> >>>
> >>> You would think so, and yet some people in this community are calling
> >>> people
> >>> like me (who do not sort people out by skin color) to be a racist. We were
> >>> told that only white people are racists and we'll never see the problem
> >>> because we have white privilege. Mind you, these are young people saying
> >>> this. They didn't live through segregation like I did. They don't get it
> >>> but
> >>> they are still trying to school me.
> >>
> >> A lot of white folks believe that racism is just a wildly exaggerated
> >> defensive stance taken by colored folks.

> >
> > You wrote "colored folks" and you think you're not a racist/bigot...
> > you are!
> >

>
> What then, is the proper term to refer to non-whites? Seems it changes
> every couple of years.


There is none. That's the catch. And "whites" all origin from Africa (a
longer time ago any creationist would dare to admit) and had to adapt to get
enough Vitamin D - by getting paler.
And those who blame others not using the right term don't know one, either.
"The pot calling the kettle black" - is that even politically correct
nowadays? ;-)

Bye, Sanne.