[WikiEN-l] Content, reason and the ArbCom

Wed Jun 22 18:48:01 UTC 2005

On Wednesday, June 22, 2005, at 19:42, Jay JG <jayjg at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Until 40 years ago or so the word "Colored" for "African-American"
> was used near-universally in the United States, and was seen
> as "neutral" as well.

Actually, using "African-American" instead of "black" is widely ridiculed in
the UK, FWIW. But yes, I agree, language changes - the point is, the use of
CE/BCE notation is a POV term like all the others whose time of being
considered better than any others has not yet come, and may indeed never do
so.

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Yours,
-- 
James D. Forrester
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