# News Anchor is fired for referring to Kamala Harris as colored in news promo **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 22, 2020, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-anchor-is-fired-for-referring-to-kamala-harris-as-colored-in-news-promo/918775 "2020-08-22T20:45:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 115
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2020, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-anchor-is-fired-for-referring-to-kamala-harris-as-colored-in-news-promo/918775/115 "2020-08-24T16:19:27Z")
> [@Ynnad](#): > > > [@Acsenray](#): > > > > > [@Ynnad](#): > > > > > > The point of my post was that “[s]ome people are easily offended.” > > > > This point is brought up about a million times more often than is necessary or useful. I’d advise you to stop offering it, as it adds nothing to the discussion. > > I thought the whole point of this discussion was to learn how to avoid offending people. See, that’s the problem. The problem with racism and racist terminology is that there are people who keep focusing on the idea that it’s about “offending” people. No, not it’s not. It’s about the fact that language is one of the weapons in the arsenal of a fundamentally oppressive society. So, no, the fact that there might be some theoretically small number of people who might take offense in any situation has zero relevance. Actually, it has less than zero relevance, in that it acts as a diversion from the actual issues at stake. But maybe that was your intent? --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-anchor-is-fired-for-referring-to-kamala-harris-as-colored-in-news-promo/918775)._