If you enquired as to my health and i responded that i was previously ill, what would you assume my current health status to be?
And if you enquired as to my financial status and i responded that i was previously poor, what would you assume my current financial status to be?
If you enquired to my racial group and i responded that i was previously disadvantaged, what would you assume my current racial group to be?
And as with all things, when we attempt to be politically correct, instead of using plain black and white language, we start painting ourselves into the proverbial.
And if you reasoned that my current racial group is now advantaged by virtue of the fact that it was previously disadvantaged, what is the implication? For there to be a group that is disadvantaged, the assumption is that there exists a group which is advantaged. And now the existence of a previously disadvantaged (and hence currently advantaged) group implies there could be a currently disadvantaged- perhaps the previously advantaged?
It’s a language thing, and language lends itself to all sorts of abuse by implication, perspective, context and ignorance. And which is probably why language is so often used in politics- and the more the better.