Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) this week headlined a "Black Americans for Trump" event in Atlanta that The New Republic's Talia Jane has deemed a "major bust."In her dispatch on the event, Jane notes that Trump didn't even bother to show up and instead spoke to attendees via telephone about his planned t...
You are right. Turning an adjective into a noun tends to make it more degrading because you’ve focused on the characteristic rather than the person. That’s why referring to people as “blacks” or “females” feels icky. It’s why we saw “deaf people” and not “the deafs” or “old people” and not “the olds.”