Submitted on Friday 12th June 2020
Rejected on Wednesday 29th July 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
Ban the use of the phrase BAME as a collective terms for minority ethnic groups
I would like for the government to stop using the umbrella term BAME when referencing ethnicities other than white.
Using BAME when referring to Black, Asian and minority ethnics is a gross marginalisation. It is outdated and has long since ceased to be fit for purpose. The use of BAME as an umbrella term trivialises the issues of all under it & implies that they all the same and shared. Priti Patel's comments in House of Commons further compound this. Stop the use of BAME, as Labour MPs wrote in their letter “being a person of colour does not automatically make you an authority on all forms of racism”
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
The Government is not responsible for determining how ethnic minorities are referred to.
The Government's guidance on writing about ethnicity already states that it does not use BAME or BME for a number of reasons: www.ethnicity-facts-figures.service.gov.uk/style-guide/writing-about-ethnicity
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