The term 'people of color' is accepted by most. Why isn't 'colored people' acceptable?

A "colored" person is a person whose kid drew on them with a crayon while them were sleeping. (now that kid has a "bottom of color").

 

 I accept neither of the two terms, because I see them as being completely synonymous with each other, equally insulting and degrading. 

I am uncomfortable with any term that lumps together everyone who is not of European descent as if they are all the same.

Means the same to me. I avoid the term.

People of color isn't accepted by most (I don't think).  I have heard a number of black and brown people say they do not like it.  Maybe most don't care, but those who don't like it seem to really not like it.

Incidentally, being a Native Australian is less about skin colour or blood than it is about culture, which is why I'm not one. I didn't grow up in that culture (the oldest continuous culture on the planet) and don't identify with it. One thirty-second doesn't really count anyway.
Australia is having trouble coming to terms with our genocidal past, and finding a socially acceptable term for the First Australians is part of that. The difference between Australia, the USA and apartheid-era South Africa is that the Afrikaners were honest about it. This post was edited by Slartibartfast at April 8, 2022 8:59 PM MDT