If it's racist, call it racist: Associated Press Stylebook changes guidelines for journalists
"Racially charged" and other euphemisms for racism is political correctness run amok.
If it is racist, call it racist, says the Associated Press Stylebook in a change to guidelines announced Friday.
The AP Stylebook, a manual widely used by journalists at many news outlets, including NBC News Digital, has changed its entry on race, advising reporters and editors against the use of ambiguous terms such as "racially charged" and "racially motivated" to describe incidents that display racial bias, the Poynter Institute reported.
"The terms racism and racist can be used in broad references or in quotations to describe the hatred of a race, or assertion of the superiority of one race over others," the AP states in the new guideline announced at a national conference of the American Copy Editors Society in Providence, Rhode Island, on Friday.
"Racially charged" and other euphemisms for racism is political correctness run amok.