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Message: [QUOTE="lynx000, post: 2869754, member: 2065"] There are a couple of aspects of your position or the justification of your position that are not clear to me and I would be interested in your explanation. If I am understanding your position, under this hypothetical scenario, a person of colour who may never have been subject to any racial discrimination or vilification is entitled to feel racially vilified if they are referred to as being black because their ancestors have been mistreated and racially vilified. The latter (historical mistreatment) therefore makes what is otherwise simply a description something racially charged and inappropriate. If this is correct, do they have to have actual knowledge that one of their ancestors was actually mistreated or vilified for this to hold true. Or is it the case that it is some form of racial/cultural zeitgeist that automatically descends upon them by virtue of their ancestry? If so, it is a somewhat bizarre concept. If identification by colour is racist one way, it must be racist every way. In which case the position taken by UB is correct. My ancestors have been stood over and mistreated by the English for centuries, does that mean I am entitled to take offence if someone of English ancestry identifies me by my ancestry? [/QUOTE]

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