Political Correctness

[paulpablo]

I do just call black people black people, I was just searching the web to see if Chads prediction was right about the term people if colour will be considered racist and offensive and it already is by some people.
My girlfriend calls black people coloured, maybe she's under the impression that calling black people black is racist now I don't know.
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LOL. Of course calling people "colored" has racist connotations. It means "not white". At least, when using words like "black", or "latino" there is a descriptive - if vaguely - quality about it and each ethnicity is considered individually - even if those categories are largely based on stereotypes and not nearly accurate enough.

"Colored" puts all ethnicities except white people into one nebulous group - how useful is that? And how many black people use "colored", when referring, to - say - Mexicans, or the Chinese? None. It's a word with a baggage of the times, when the political balance of power on Earth was: caucasian imperialists vs everyone else (aka - "savages").

I don't particularly care if people use it - but it's really funny, when they think they're being polite...

I agree with pretty much all this, but this is exactly why it makes no sense to me why people of colour would be more polite than coloured. It still puts most non whites into one group, although I don't think anyone used the term for Far East Asian people ever.
The reason I don't used coloured has nothing to do with political correctness it's more because when I picture a coloured person I think of somone with rainbow skin.