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Richard Stallman | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 [02/02] The article linked to just above displays symbolic bigotry by capitalizing "black" but not "white". (To avoid endorsing bigotry, capitalize both words or neither one.) I denounce bigotry, and normally I will not link to articles that practice it. But I make exceptions for some articles that I consider important — and I label them like this.
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anime graf mays 🛰️🪐 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 wait til you find out what else journalists do
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Crit | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 You mean besides suckle the cock of those in charge?
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Dave55811 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I think that the reason people and journalists capitalist the 'B' in "black" is to put them on a pedestal...just another method of infantilizing black people and committing prostration and self-flagellation.

When I was younger, "black" and "white" weren't capitalized when describing either people.  I stick with it to this day.  The real concern should be using those words without following them up with "people", but even that's dubious, because calling people "blacks" and "whites" has always been a thing, and it's only becoming an issue because people are ultra-super-hyper sensitive, even so far as to say that calling white people "whites" and black people "blacks" is a false equivalency....meaning, calling black people "blacks" carries some offensive undertone, whereas calling white people "whites" doesn't, or is even "unheard of".  But, to that, people need to lighten up and stop following whatever æther of hate they're on.....if there is any such "æther of hate".