[quote=afx114][quote=flu]For example, how is a white person suppose to know calling someone “oriental” is racist? If it happens, is that considered “threatening”?[/quote]

I suppose you can argue “but I didn’t know that calling blacks monkeys was offensive.” Well now you do. Are you still going to use it?[/quote]

Possibly by accident if I’m at the San Diego Zoo and with my daughter and see a black monkey. “Hey kiddo, there’s that black monkey”.

If that happens accidentally, I really hope that there aren’t any African Americans standing near me that think I’m referring to them.

To be safe, I’ll start learning the actual species names and just call the animal by the actual species name….like…”Hey, kiddo, that’s a black Rhinopithecus Bieti”.

Clearly it’s no laughing matter. Wierder things have happened.