(September 29, 2017 at 8:40 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:(September 29, 2017 at 7:02 pm)Hammy Wrote: Us Brits are weird. I've never heard ONE British person say 'blacks' but I've heard them say 'black people' repeatedly. I say 'black people'. We don't tend to say 'gays' either but we say 'gay people'. If I were to say 'gays' or 'blacks' I'd probably get called a homophobe or racist unless the person I was talking to was themselves homophobic or racist.
So to anyone who thinks that political correctness has gone mad in America: it's pretty mad over here too.
There are folks here who regard "black/blacks/black people" as antiquated and borderline-racist, to be sure. I don't give a damn, though, mainly because they're non-black PC warriors looking for an edge, any edge, from which they might look down upon others.
My bold.
Well there's a lot of people like that over here. Especially in the north east where I live. I really struggle to make friends here as when someone isn't a massive chav they tend to be a massive snob.