i mean they’re too fucking stupid for the real answer. we could say: “because Black is the term for americans in the african diaspora that went through literal and cultural genocide from which a new distinct culture sprang.”
but then that dipshit would go “sounds fake.” better to lobotomize now
not quite, latino is an umbrella term for lots of distinct nationalities and ethnicities within the americas who speak a dialect of spanish. i can’t speak to the internal racial politics of latin american countries except that they have their own problems along similar colonial faultlines
It really is crazy how every single guy on twitter is named The Alcoholic Birth Rate Sperm Thinker, has a statue profile picture, pays 8 dollars a month for twitter, and posts nothing but weird 1800s racism
As someone who intentionally leaves america uncapitalized, I empathize with the poster so hard, this was the posters intent 100% lol or maybe I'm just projecting
I mean I give the poster credit. Lowercasing white will just drive engagement. For every 12 Nazis this post brings it will deliver 10x more in the non blue checks.
Its an oversimplification. Sometimes when kids learn about vocabulary they learn that one of the differences between a noun and a pro-noun is that a pro-noun is sometimes capitalized. It's not always true.
Saw one arguing that 4 year olds aren’t ‘toddlers’ and that they care about the meaning of words in regards to kids having to represent themselves for immigration issues. Absolute ghouls.
An estimated 75% of that site's traffic is bots, so while it looks that way, it's more likely that a couple-dozen bot nets are boosting it's numbers to make it seem like that's popular sentiment (a known issue on Twitter for many years now)
I didn't write that, but the lower-case version is what I consider the slang for "olive and paler Euro-Americans". I don't capitalize "white" when I want to talk about that rough, nebulous demographic because the very idea of "Whiteness" is itself rooted in racial supremacy. See thing is...
...with "White", nothing really defines it save the gatekeeping out of a racialized other. Every new wave of European immigrants to the US was gatekept out of "White" until they assimilated enough. Things like "Black" and "Indigenous/Native/Indian" are also concepts formed under White Supremacy...
...but the populations affected have worked to rise up and reclaim rights against White Supremacy, and orgs run by folks from those groups have written style guides asking for their identity to be capitalized. We probably don't want to respect style guides that demand that of "white", though...
...because those are proooooobably gonna be written by White Identitarians, and those people are racist freaks. Within the group of people we call "white" though, we capitalize actual ethnicities like Irish, German, Italian and Polish, white's just not a culture like Black/Latino is, blah blah blah
This has been "long explainers for weird grammar differences in progressive spaces" with Dizzy, the part of the post where Dizzy prattles on about about a grammar topic in excess detail.
Yep. If you don't like it, take it up with the AP style guide.
Personally, I think it is a well thought out and thoroughly defensible decision and I agree with it.
And many don't capitalize white because, unlike Black culture, white people have never had a shared history under that label. There are English, Irish, Italian, etc. but white has only become a label in recent times, only really denoted by not being Black, rather than any shared culture.
<< "White" is really just the racial ingroup in the western world at any given time, with the only consistent trait being that they're not black or brown in skin color. There's many cases of white-skinned people not being "white" just cuz they were discriminated at the time, like with the Irish. >>
Apparently the Irish didn’t count and people only think about American slavery and the civil war . People have had slaves since before Babylon . Everyone has had a turn at one time or another . I believe every culture in Rome was a slave at one point in time but some could earn their freedom .
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but then that dipshit would go “sounds fake.” better to lobotomize now
It feels good to make racists mad. They should feel bad always because they are racists.
WHY W NOT CAPITALIZED?!?
fascists: haha, "we're"
"Saw the EMTs carrying Jimbo off. dumbass cracker pissed on an electric fence."
THIS IS PRO BEATLES PROPAGANDA, NO COMMIES, I WILL NOT "LOVE ME DO" OR "IMAGINE".
we found the grammar nazi
Personally, I think it is a well thought out and thoroughly defensible decision and I agree with it.
"Are you triggered by a percieved microagression?"
There is nothing other than hatred in that soul. Washing it away would require a lobotomy.
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And not even the clever funny rocks!!!