• Sanctus@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Its that simple, making People the prominent noun in the semantics makes people humanized. Adding colored beforehand denotes some imperative difference that must be considered for it to be placed before their humanity.

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      1 year ago

      This is honestly ridiculous logic. That’s how adjectives work. Calling someone a tall person isn’t dehumanizing them.

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        1 year ago

        Totally ignoring the evidence provided that it does make a difference.

        Also, to state the obvious, tall people aren’t a marginalized group in our society so it may not activate the same nueral pathways that lead to bias.

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          1 year ago

          The study you quoted isn’t the same thing. It would be more like comparing “people of color” with “coloreds”. And to your point about how tall people aren’t marginalized, that’s kind of my point. “Colored people” is offensive because it’s been used derogatorily for so long, not because of the word order. That same wikipedia article points out that there are several marginalized groups that reject people first language. It mentions Deaf and autistic people, but anecdotally I’ve never seen anyone take offense to “gay people” or “trans people” either. It’s just the specific history of the adjective “colored” being applied to people that makes the difference.