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JigsawTDC posted...

Just because you don't know something doesn't mean no one remembers why something is offensive.

So if it was clear that it was in poor taste back in 1979 then my expectation is that people have stopped using it. 40 years later a whole generation, maybe two, had been born and entered adulthood without its usage being a prevalent social issue.

JigsawTDC posted...

I think for any of us that paid attention in our high school U.S. history courses

History was always my worst subject. I found the material hard to relate to. The general impression I came away with was that such matters were issues of the past and not relevant today.

JigsawTDC posted...

"colored" was what black folks were commonly referred to

I sense a pattern here. It seems that whatever they are called one decade becomes an offensive term the next decade. I wasn't alive when "colored" was in use but I recall at one point the correct term was black. Then that became offensive and the correct term was African American. Now that's an offensive term.

JigsawTDC posted...

The phrase recalls the trauma of the era.

Searching on Google informs me that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 resulted in the end of the Jim Crow era. So 3 or 4 generations of people have been born since then who have no memory of that. And again, since the term has fallen out of usage those generations wouldn't have exposure to it to know of the connotation associated with it.

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