On 2017-07-30 9:37 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> On 7/30/2017 8:24 AM, wrote:
>> 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.
Acceptable names keep changing. It is like lots of other terms for
various conditions. Terms often end up becoming a pejorative with the
same connotations as the terms they replaced. In the early 1900s doctors
used the words idiot, simpleton and moron to denote levels of mentla
ability. They were perfectly acceptable because they were medical terms.
When people started using them as pejoratives the terms change. Mentally
retarded was a term used in medicine and psychology for people with low
intelligence. That term is no longer acceptable. The word "challenged"
has been attached to a number of issues, and it quickly became a
pejorative.