Thread:Euji/@comment-22439-20160212201204/@comment-26732083-20160213182916

AnnabellRice wrote: You are making an argument, not necessarily arguing, there's a difference. An argument is defined as a process of reasoning, or series of reasons, presented during a discussion or debate, but my point is that we do not classify the human species by race on this database, so it's not really a legitimate issue to base a premise upon, and after a bit of cursory research, I could not find a single example of the word "colored" having been used by MARVEL itself, though I'll admit I didn't spend a lot of time digging.

Basically Marvel Comics, particularly with the X-Men series, has been a social commentary on the struggle for equality and civil rights for over fifty years. That being said, on rare occasions there are things like the depiction of Washington Jones by their predecessor, Timely Comics, which is highly offensive, and addressed as such.

Back to the root subject, due to the linguistic concept of euphemism creep, there is ultimately little more than semantics between the terms "prostitute" and "sex worker", because, as George Orwell so eloquently said, "A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, and then fail all the more completely because he drinks. It is rather the same thing that is happening to the English language. It becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language also allows us to have foolish thoughts."

Okay because that wasn't my point, but I understand your point and why you said what you said. I wasn't being concise.

Thank you for that example, since that's what I was trying to ask about, I appreciate it and the links.

And thanks for the quote.