Frankly I don’t get why there’s so much focus on words rather than intent. Mfm mentioned “oriental”, which seems to be in a transition to this “unspeakable words” phase, when I could watch any late night show from the late 80s and Asians would refer to themselves as Oriental. It’s a rapid change, and the offending words are always changing that it’s really confusing to keep up with. For another example, about 10-15 years ago I was consistently told referring to black people as black was offensive, which doesn’t seem to be the case anymore.
So I guess here I’m just confused, don’t crucify me.
Yeah. Years before I was born, the word negro was the proper term. Heck there was a time when colored was acceptable. What do you think term NAACP stands for? National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. That is how acceptable the word colored used to be. Then black became the proper term. Then African American. Now it seems to me that the term “person of color” is picking up steam.