Wow. A biracial poster uses a term
to describe themselves that you don't like/don't think she should be allowed to use, and it sparks two pages of abuse, lies, and hypocrisy? That says everything about the agenda some posters have.
I do not want some self-appointed holier than thou vigilante telling me I can’t use a word because they decided yesterday that it was offensive.
Except you're the one doing that, not me. You're the one throwing a massive tantrum because I used a word you don't like. You're the one throwing nasty-names around. You're the one engaging in bullying to try to force black and biracial posters to not use certain words purely on the grounds you personally dislike that word, and for some bizarre reason you believe it's your right to police the language black and biracial posters are allowed to use.
Please copy and paste the exact post where I or anyone else has told you that you're not allowed to use certain words? Oh right, you can't. Because it's a lie. All I did was use the term of my preference. Why is that not allowed? Why are you allowed to dictate what words black people are allowed to call themselves, but a black person simply using the self-descriptor of their choice is being [inset string of insults here]?
For whoever asked: I work in theatre and TV/film. The term BAME has been explicitly banned within parts of the UK entertainment industry, following a large-scale survey showing that the majority of non-white theatre workers find it offensive. Search for the results of the "BAME Over" survey, there's tons of info out there about why this term is banned and widely considered offensive.
www.belgrade.co.uk/stories/a-statement-on-eradicating-the-use-of-the-term-bame/
I personally don't consider BAME to be offensive, and BAME is my preferred term. I am simply in the habit of using the preferred terminology I am asked to use at work, and because it is common to automatically) use the term you hear most frequently.
It's just insane and yet more evidence of the non-stop abuse and determination to drive black and biracial posters off this site, that that I'm being torn to shreds and bullied and having obviously false accusations thrown at me, simply because I automatically without thinking used the term that I hear around me every day. Why do you care what term I use to describe myself? It has literally nothing to do with you.
The aim of certain contributions to this thread seems to be to personally abuse and smear posters either in the hope of derailing every avenue of discussion or in the hope of getting the thread deleted.
Then why don't you stop?