Crappy human, instead of sitting on your ass all day and critiquing threads go make yourself useful and stop wasting the air I actually use
Ethnic/Ethnicity An ethnic group or ethnicity is a category of people who identify with each other based on common ancestral, social, cultural, or national experiences. Unlike most other social groups, ethnicity is primarily an inherited status.
Unless we’re excluding colloquial expressions from forums, he said what he meant, and it made sense. Formally, yes, it’s incorrect to use ethnicity to express “person of color” in this manner. He was probably trying to be as politically correct as possible and you’re trying to call him out to show his lack of understanding of the word.... when most people can draw from context what he was eluding to. This is a huge pet peeve of mine because living language is dynamic. I ignore it when certain people use appropriated mainstream (suburban) popularized slang incorrectly, because google or urban dictionary told them it means something that it really doesn’t... or they heard Nicki or Audrey say it on the radio so now it’s cool for them too...?... but rather than call them out for their lameness, I let them proceed to make a complete jackáss out of themselves. Fault is their own for attempting to be something they obviously aren’t.
The term ethnic or ethnicity is not exclusive to people of color. Trying to justify him using it correctly because "im sure we all knew what he meant" doesnt make his use of it correct. Caucasians cant be an ethnicity? McGregor is caucasian. He did it and did not get arrested. Disproving his OP that if an ethnic person did it (caucasians=ethnicity as well) he would get arrested. Which he didnt. Just because we "get what he means by the context of the sentence" does not make his use of the term correct. So no, lol