IgnoranceI once was in a programming class where the task was "build a calculator". A student did one with buttons 1, 2, 3 all the way up to about 25 and then ran out of space on the screen. We've asked this before but liked it so much we're asking again: What's the best example of ignorance you've encountered?
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 30 Aug 2012, 12:30)
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I think you're being a bit hysterical there.These things evolve.
I'm sure 20 years ago it was quite acceptable to use the term coloured. The question is really what the intention is. Doesn't sound like she was deliberately using it in a disparaging way, from what you have said.
If the prefered term is black now, what you really should have done is told her that.
But you quietly got all pissy about it, and expect us to all get indignant too.
(, Fri 31 Aug 2012, 12:11, 2 replies)
Doesn't sound like she was deliberately using it in a disparaging way...I've just moved from Yorkshire where the locals all refer to the Pakistani locals as "Pakis".
After a few months I realised it wasn't intended to be offensive. I'm not sure what the local Pakistanis thought, but if you said that to someone in London you wouldn't get a happy reception.
If I'm not mistaken though, this QOTW is about ignorance. If you are using a 20year old out of date term that someone finds offensive and you didn't know... well, that sounds like ignorance to me.
(, Fri 31 Aug 2012, 12:29, closed)
No, ignorance meanslacking in awareness.
If you'd just said 'You do realise that's now considered offensive, don't you?", you might have got on better.
You just said exactly the same thing yourself. You realised the Yorkshire people weren't meaning to be offensive.
[edit - OK, that was a completely different poster said that. Left for honesty . . .]
What's the difference between her and them?
Pfft.
(, Fri 31 Aug 2012, 12:53, closed)
'You do realise that's now considered offensive, don't you?", I said this a couple of times, she kept chuckling and saying "but she IS coloured"
(, Fri 31 Aug 2012, 12:57, closed)
We could keep this up allday.
(, Fri 31 Aug 2012, 13:00, closed)
I read the story as he did tell her but she choose to ignore him.
(, Fri 31 Aug 2012, 12:39, closed)
Perhaps she didn't believe a white boytelling him what terms black people don't like? A bit like the way some local councils claim that "brainstorm" is offensive to people with epilepsy.
(, Fri 31 Aug 2012, 14:11, closed)
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