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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I married into an old money WASP family. My kids and I call out my ILs and try to educate them when they're being racist/homophobic/bigoted/victim shamer/etc. but my ILs very much have the attitude of "I'm too old to keep up with all these new rules."

I've been married to my wife for 25 years and no matter how many times I've told her that the correct term is either people of color or black, she still calls them "colored people" and says that back then, they wanted to be called colored instead of other things. Um, yeah, I guess if the options were colored or n-word, I'd pick colored, too, Jacqueline! [/quote]

I'm from a Southern WASP family and no one uses colored people except the very, very old and they are largely dead. You and your wife are in your 50s? She didn't grow up in a time when it was acceptable to use colored people even if she may have heard her grandparents use the term. Because that would be the 1980s. Black and African American were what people used. I also don't genuinely think you could be married to her for 25 years and she'd still use the term because colored people was completely verboten for too many decades now.

Your story would have been a bit more plausible if you were talking about your mother in law. But even then it's a bit of a stretch. [/quote]

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