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Posted: 1/28/2015 6:05:54 PM EDT
http://www.oregonlive.com/movies/2015/01/benedict_cumberbatch_apologize.html
But in making his point, Cumberbatch said, "I think as far as colored actors go, it gets really different in the U.K., and a lot of my friends have had more opportunities" in the U.S. than in the U.K., "and that's something that needs to change." Klan motherfucker!  I'm devastated to have caused offense by using this outmoded terminology. I offer my sincere apologies. I make no excuse for my being an idiot and know the damage is done. I can only hope this incident will highlight the need for correct usage of terminology that is accurate and inoffensive. The most shaming aspect of this for me is that I was talking about racial inequality in the performing arts in the U.K. and the need for rapid improvements in our industry when I used the term." Cumberbatch added, "I feel the complete fool I am and while I am sorry to have offended people and to learn from my mistakes in such a public manner please be assured I have. I apologize again to anyone who I offended for this thoughtless use of inappropriate language about an issue which affects friends of mine and which I care about deeply." USA Today reported that this was "doubly embarrassing for Cumberbatch" because his family's ancestors include slave owners in Barbados.-SLAVER BASTARD!!! |
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Posted: 1/28/2015 6:08:14 PM EDT
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But isn't "People of Color" ultra-PC and touchy-feely?
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Posted: 1/28/2015 6:09:03 PM EDT
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Tell the NAACP.
He should start using "African Americans " lol Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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Posted: 1/28/2015 6:09:42 PM EDT
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The BC can do no wrong. Fuck the pansies.
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Posted: 1/28/2015 6:10:01 PM EDT
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But in making his point, Cumberbatch said, "I think as far as colored actors go, it gets really different in the U.K., and a lot of my friends have had more opportunities" in the U.S. than in the U.K., "and that's something that needs to change." Klan motherfucker! I'm devastated to have caused offense by using this outmoded terminology. I offer my sincere apologies. I make no excuse for my being an idiot and know the damage is done. I can only hope this incident will highlight the need for correct usage of terminology that is accurate and inoffensive. The most shaming aspect of this for me is that I was talking about racial inequality in the performing arts in the U.K. and the need for rapid improvements in our industry when I used the term." Cumberbatch added, "I feel the complete fool I am and while I am sorry to have offended people and to learn from my mistakes in such a public manner please be assured I have. I apologize again to anyone who I offended for this thoughtless use of inappropriate language about an issue which affects friends of mine and which I care about deeply." USA Today reported that this was "doubly embarrassing for Cumberbatch" because his family's ancestors include slave owners in Barbados.-SLAVER BASTARD!!! |
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Posted: 1/28/2015 6:10:51 PM EDT
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Growing up in the South, colored was a term of respect.
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Posted: 1/28/2015 6:13:31 PM EDT
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What a Crazy Ass Cracker!
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Posted: 1/28/2015 6:14:18 PM EDT
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How long until whites are forced to apologize simply for existing?
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Posted: 1/28/2015 6:17:28 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:
How long until whites are forced to apologize simply for existing? About 10 yrs ago. 
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Posted: 1/28/2015 6:19:01 PM EDT
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I don't think Benedict Cumberbatch has a racist bone in his body.
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Posted: 1/28/2015 6:19:59 PM EDT
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Was there a memo about not using the term "colored"? I don't recall seeing it.
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Posted: 1/28/2015 6:20:33 PM EDT
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Meh, dem coloreds don't watch Cumberbatch flicks
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Posted: 1/28/2015 6:26:50 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I don't think Benedict Cumberbatch has a racist bone in his body. |
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Posted: 1/28/2015 6:36:23 PM EDT
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Tell the NAACP. He should start using "African Americans " lol Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile Are colored people in UK known as African-UKians? African-Britons? What if they aren't from Africa? |
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Posted: 1/28/2015 6:49:53 PM EDT
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With a name like Benedict Cumberbatch, he can say whatever he wants.
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Posted: 1/28/2015 7:08:23 PM EDT
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But isn't "People of Color" ultra-PC and touchy-feely? I think you can only say that if you're colored. |
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Posted: 1/28/2015 7:10:34 PM EDT
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I am a person without color so I cannot comment.
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Posted: 1/28/2015 7:14:47 PM EDT
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I dont get why coloured is considered a derogatory term. What difference is it from Black as both are similar words. Its a lot better than what a lot of blacks seem to call themselves.
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Posted: 1/28/2015 7:14:58 PM EDT
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That was an all-out groveling apology, notable for it's use of the active voice ("I'm sorry I offended you", as opposed to the passive "I'm sorry you were offended").
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Posted: 1/28/2015 7:15:18 PM EDT
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I was taught that Black was a color, Negro was a race. White is a color, Caucasian is a race.
Is this no longer the English language? |
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Posted: 1/28/2015 7:18:32 PM EDT
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I was taught that Black was a color, Negro was a race. White is a color, Caucasian is a race. Is this no longer the English language? This. Fuck PC. |
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Posted: 1/28/2015 7:20:10 PM EDT
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When I was a kid-------a long fucking time ago--------"colored" was the accepted POLITE name for blacks.
Sooo.........does that make me a racist by default??? because I'm old????because I remember???? I really,REALLY don't give a fuck how you label me. |
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Posted: 1/28/2015 8:44:50 PM EDT
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Story is obviously a fake cooked up by Hollywood publicists, he would have said "coloured"
;) Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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Posted: 1/28/2015 8:47:30 PM EDT
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Klan motherfucker! Klan or Khan? |
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Posted: 1/28/2015 8:47:51 PM EDT
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But isn't "People of Color" ultra-PC and touchy-feely? He didn't say that. He said "colored people." And, he said it in the context of their unfair treatment. Just goes to show there isn't a lot of higher order thinking going on in with the perpetually offended. |
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Posted: 1/28/2015 8:50:09 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: When I was a kid-------a long fucking time ago--------"colored" was the accepted POLITE name for blacks. Sooo.........does that make me a racist by default??? because I'm old????because I remember???? I really,REALLY don't give a fuck how you label me. A buddy of mine said "African American" when we were out in a bar a fee years ago, no one says that in casual conversation around here that I know. He works for a big company and I am sure just hot into the habit. I mentioned it to him and he honestly thought he had said black. The ridiculous part is of course he was being all PC and still got his dick in the wringer, like the priests who tweeted about the cops shooting black mug shots, then the priests were called racist because they were all white
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Posted: 1/28/2015 8:50:42 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Klan or Khan? Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Klan motherfucker! Klan or Khan?  |
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Posted: 1/28/2015 8:53:58 PM EDT
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Posted: 1/28/2015 8:56:54 PM EDT
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It would have been the most awesome thing in the universe if he said, deadpan, "Oh god, I'm sorry I didn't mean that. I meant to say n*****r."
Fucking crybabies and their ever-changing demands.
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Posted: 1/28/2015 8:57:50 PM EDT
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Klan or Khan? Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Klan motherfucker! Klan or Khan? Bonus points for awesomeness post |
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Posted: 1/28/2015 8:58:56 PM EDT
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if you call a black person colored your either ignorant, racist, or both. It just sounds wrong.
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Posted: 1/28/2015 9:01:39 PM EDT
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Are colored people in UK known as African-UKians? African-Britons? What if they aren't from Africa? Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Tell the NAACP. He should start using "African Americans " lol Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile Are colored people in UK known as African-UKians? African-Britons? What if they aren't from Africa? I think they are referred to as Afro-Caribbean generally, but it seems to change frequently. The official categories are show in the Census classifications of ethnicity. Link below. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classification_of_ethnicity_in_the_United_Kingdom |
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Posted: 1/28/2015 9:03:17 PM EDT
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I am a person without color so I cannot comment. Ha ha. You're an albino. |
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Posted: 1/28/2015 9:04:30 PM EDT
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Growing up in the South, colored was a term of respect. Yes it was. It was often followed by "lady" or "gentleman". |
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Posted: 1/28/2015 9:10:01 PM EDT
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That's silly, since when is colored a pejorative term?
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Posted: 1/28/2015 9:10:50 PM EDT
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That's what you get for trying to suck up to the diversity police
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Posted: 1/28/2015 9:11:01 PM EDT
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The NAACP, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Dats rasis
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Posted: 1/28/2015 9:11:48 PM EDT
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Bene-what Cumber-who? Never heard of 'er.
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Posted: 1/28/2015 9:12:08 PM EDT
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Posted: 1/28/2015 9:13:07 PM EDT
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Give me a fucking break. Piss on that.
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Posted: 1/28/2015 9:14:39 PM EDT
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ARFCOM doesn't like colored people...
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Posted: 1/28/2015 9:15:51 PM EDT
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if you call a black person colored your either ignorant, racist, or both. It just sounds wrong. Lol 
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Posted: 1/28/2015 9:17:03 PM EDT
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Tell the NAACP. He should start using "African Americans " lol Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile They should change to the NAAAAP. |
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Posted: 1/28/2015 9:23:13 PM EDT
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Wasn't he talking about Blacks in England? So would they be "African-American" or would it be "African-English"?
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Posted: 1/28/2015 9:25:22 PM EDT
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ARFCOM doesn't like colored people... Nonsense. There are so many threads about them here, they must be loved. |
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Posted: 1/28/2015 9:25:33 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Tell the NAACP. He should start using "African Americans " lol Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile I've had posters on this site smugly inform me that "colored" is outmoded even though the NAACP doesn't have a fucking problem using it. Cumberbunch is a bitch for apologizing. What a twat. |
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Posted: 1/28/2015 9:27:46 PM EDT
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Growing up in the South, colored was a term of respect. It was in East Texas too. Until this black guy slammed into my father's 67' station wagon with a logging truck and knocked all of the wood paneling off one side!! 
Then it was so on! 
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Posted: 1/28/2015 9:30:13 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: if you call a black person colored your either ignorant, racist, or both. It just sounds wrong. It's only wrong because blacks continually seek to change the language and any attempt to describe their appearance. Negro, then colored, then African American, then Black, then person of color, what's next? What's acceptable, that won't be in 10 or 20 years? The truth is none of those terms are pejorative, or mean, unless you want them to be. It's a description, void of malice, no different than white, caucasian, euro-skinned, whatever.
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Posted: 1/28/2015 9:30:39 PM EDT
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What is the preferred term then? Just "black/s"?
I could have sworn I saw "persons of color" on a ton of the Ferg. posters and flyers going around during the riots. Maybe Brit politics are at a different point because I could have sworn that was acceptable currently here. |
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Posted: 1/28/2015 9:31:27 PM EDT
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It's only wrong because blacks continually seek to change the language and any attempt to describe their appearance. Negro, then colored, then African American, then Black, then person of color, what's next? What's acceptable, that won't be in 10 or 20 years? The truth is none of those terms are pejorative, or mean, unless you want them to be. It's a description, void of malice, no different than white, caucasian, euro-skinned, whatever. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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if you call a black person colored your either ignorant, racist, or both. It just sounds wrong. It's only wrong because blacks continually seek to change the language and any attempt to describe their appearance. Negro, then colored, then African American, then Black, then person of color, what's next? What's acceptable, that won't be in 10 or 20 years? The truth is none of those terms are pejorative, or mean, unless you want them to be. It's a description, void of malice, no different than white, caucasian, euro-skinned, whatever. You do think it sounds condescending as hell? Maybe I'm way off base here. |
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Posted: 1/28/2015 9:32:55 PM EDT
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My ancestors owned slaves, but later became anti slavery, what should i do?
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