I would say a couple of main reasons:

1. It creates a 'them' and 'us'. 'Coloured' as opposed to 'us'/'white'. Gives the impression that to be white is 'normal' to be 'coloured' is to be other.

2. It's reductive of billions of people of different ethnicities to say that they are 'coloured'.

Posted By: Hertz van Rental, Mar 11, 14:42:53