LOL Politically Correct movement.

Check. It's your move.

It confused them, and that scared them.

You'd think that people who are educated enough to be in med school, and administrators at a med school would have enough sense not to be ruled by petty fears and social stereotypes.

It's funny because, even before the African continent was heavily annexed by Europe, its native population wasn't exclusively negroid.

Is that a thing?

Wikipedia says that
"Negroid is an adjective derived from the term Negro and refers to a race of people whose recent ancestors are mostly from sub-Saharan Africa. "

that word just sounds soooo ridiculous

Anthropologists often use words such as negroid, caucasoid, australoid, etc when referring to the classical racial groups.

Cheers! to mattgup for just asking for clarification, and to mewhitenoise and joeyneutrrino for providing it. On so many social networks this thread would have instantly disintegrated into an example of just the kind of stereotyping and "socially correct" hypocrisy this article was trying to expose. I love Plime.

Don't be so open minded that your brains fall out.

Yes I have seen some strong minded debates on Plime but never the kind of rampant hate mongering and pointless trolling that you find on the lesser varieties of social news sites... *cough* digg. That's why I love Plime!

Thanks for the info. Yes, it sounds like a video game, but it sounds like it's appropriate.

If I remember correctly, wasn't John Kerry's wife greeted with the same "outrage" when she said this?


I believe she was addressing a college campus and said something to the effect that she was the only "actual" African American in the room.

(she was born in East Africa)

unless he can unearth written documentation that he was suspended solely because he labeled himself African-American his case should be thrown out.

Should he have suffered the crap that he did? No, of course not. The fact that he knew what sort of reaction he'd get and his labeling himself was done to get a reaction has no bearing on that.

Sure he was trying to raise a stir, but that is a good way to bring attention to a subject and to create change. I'm not denigrating him for his actions. What I am saying is that suing the college is a step too far UNLESS he can PROVE that he was sued only for the fact that he labeled himself something.

When I retire, I'm moving to Africa and insisting that everyone call me American-African.

A related sort of vagueness exists with Native Americans, i.e, "indians". There are indian peoples native throughout the Americas. Are there people in some counties designated as Native Canadians? Native Mexicans? Native Argentinians?

Your smug satisfaction will be the only thing that will make the malaria seem worth it.

Ironically, by calling himself an "african american" he's technically being more correct than many others who use the term to describe themselves.

Speaking as a Canadian, the most PC way to refer to an aboriginal person is with the term 'native'.

I don't see what's wrong with political correctness. It's just about allowing minorities to name themselves, so they don't have live with terms that are offensive to them just because the majority says so.

In this case, the guy had every right in the world to call himself a white African American. It's what he is. I don't see what political correctness has got to do with it. People like to pull out the old "hahaha political correctness haha" chestnut, seemingly in order to make fun of... I don't even know what, the left wing or something? Anyway, most of the time it's not really called for, and it isn't in this case. If the college is defending themselves with PC, then they're in the wrong.

Why is that vague? The "Indian" people you're talking about are actually native to the Americas, and not "Indian" at all. Why they should be labelled Indian when they're very much not, and they really are native, doesn't seem vague to me. Maybe I missed your point.

Yes, you did miss my point.