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I agree with what you're saying but just a note on style -- You may want to consider substituting the word 'colored' for a more modern (and maybe more political
by ralgoran 11y ago
I agree with what you're saying but just a note on style -- You may want to consider substituting the word 'colored' for a more modern (and maybe more politically correct) word like 'diverse'
- chetanahuja 11y agoI think @TheMagicHorsey's sentence in question is actually talking about the multiple colors of people's faces, I don't find it offensive in that sense. Though you have a point that the word's history has unpleasant connotations. I might have paused and looked hard for perhaps a different word to convey the same meaning.... say, "multihued" or "heterogenous" or something.
- ralgoran 11y agoThat's how I interpreted it too. I was not offended but thought he may want to reconsider his wording in the future because the connotation. I guess the downvote was because my pendantic and unsubstantial comment was of low signal:noise ratio for the HN discussion
- mreiland 11y agothe context made it obvious that he wasn't speaking about blacks, especially in light of the responder stating he meant "diverse", which he did. There was nothing wrong with the wording.