Re: Racial Classification & credit line

Quoting Joe <joe@...>:


> >The Veddas' skin colour is about as black as you can ask for among human
> >beings, IIRC. But skin colour is not, for me, the basis for classing people
> >as "blacks".
> >
> >
>
> You see, to me, that seems a little like saying that the term 'Blonde'
> only applies to people of Germanic descent.  Still, I suppose different
> people have different usages.
As I've repeatedly stated, my usage makes little sense. But I cannot be
bothered to change it, especially since I'd then have to refer to Negroid
people either as "negroes", which is sure to attract accusations of racism,
with attendant pointless arguments, or as "Negroid", which is a) problematic
sytlistically in my situations, and b) likely to be more-or-less consciously
misheard as "negro", and used as pretext for a racism charge.

                                                       Andreas

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