Obviously the people who complain about 'political correctness' are worse than what they're complaining about, but this thread does give me an opportunity to share the hilarious fact that when a class I'm taking watched Son of Man, a South African Jesus movie with an all-black cast, a few weeks ago, one student, a middle-aged white guy who goes to the ultra-liberal Andover Newton Theological School and is taking this class through the Boston Theological Institute, couldn't bring himself to say 'black' and kept describing the South African, Xhosa-speaking cast first as 'African-American' and then as 'of color'.
lol. But no mention of cultural appropriation.
I mean, there was some discussion (from other, more knowledgeable people) of the problems with the fact that a white South African director made a movie with an entirely black cast that thus bracketed out South Africa's racial history in its implied commentary on the relevance of Jesus' ministry (the movie's theology is strongly Lucan), but mercifully nobody used that particular rubric for understanding what the concern was.
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