Yesterday on the Jeremy Vine radio show Amber Rudd called Diane Abbott ‘coloured’. She has since been castigated for using a rascist term. Benedict Cumberbatch also used that term a couple of years ago and was called up on it. I don’t understand. Why is it okay to say “a woman of colour” but not “coloured woman”. There is obviously a subtle difference that I am missing.
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