Facts

• The nonprofit Reframing Race initiative has recommended people stop using phrases such as "black mood," "dark times," and "whiter than white," which allegedly reinforce racist connotations by linking negativity with blackness and positivity with whiteness.
• It also suggests replacing the term "the wealthy elite" with "the powerful few," as the former could allegedly trigger anti-semitism and fuel conspiracy theories. It further recommends avoiding using "ethnic" to mean minority ethnic or non-white.
• The organization's report, released on Tuesday under the title "Contains Strong Language," is based on four-years of research that included in-depth focus groups and insights stemming from a study of 20K people in England and Scotland.
• Dr. Sanjiv Lingayah, the director of the non-profit initiative and co-author of the report, argues that the research demonstrates "how different messages on race and racism affect a mainstream audience."
• This document also aims to equip anti-racism and racial inequality campaigners with the words that have proven most effective in teaching people about the "harm and structural nature of racism."
• Last year, research from Reframing Race found that 40% of those surveyed thought that some ethnic groups are naturally harder working than others, while 30% thought that race indicates character traits and 20% believed that some races are born less intelligent than others.