Calling a Negro...
...a Negro was condescending? Even in the 1860ies? Just asking...
shareIt was not. Technically, it still isn't today. But actually it is because, well, you know.
But today saying "black" is racist too... you need to refer to human beings with more pronounced pigmentation as "B(I)PoC" or you're a racist.
Just like saying "mother" is horribly bigoted and wrong now, and you shall say "birthing person" instead.
I like to think people of the past imagined the 21st Century to be... not this.
PS: If I'd be black etc., someone calling me a dumb ideology driven bullshit abbreviation instead of simply black brown or whatever, THAT would really piss me off. "B(I)PoC", WTF who thinks THIS of all terms stands for dignity, respect or other expected values?
Thanks a lot. I just gave GaG a chance and was wondering about this pc crap right in the middle of a movie about the Civil War.
sharePretty sure I remember the scene you're talking about, where Jeff Daniels' character is talking to his brother. If that's the one, his brother didn't call the blacks "negroes," but "darkies."
shareAre you sure? It's been a while since I saw this. But I kept this pc talking in times of the CW always in mind... 🤔
shareI just watched the film a few nights ago. From my recollection, Jeff Daniels' character is talking to his brother and his brother three or four times in quick succession calls black folks "darkies." And then Daniels says something like, "Let's don't refer to the negroes as 'darkies' anymore. It is condescending."
I don't think there is much about the film that is PC. With the respect that it showed to the Confederacy, I actually regard it as gloriously un-PC.