It’s solidifying and enforcing barriers that already exist but shouldn’t be enshrined.
Even eerier seeing “White” written like that, it shrieks of supremacy.
Still, I don't like politicization of colors and I actively want to defuse attempts to politicize the word "black". It's getting so bad that literally the color black is coming under attack - for example the python formatter "black"[0]
“White” as a label of an identity group is usually capitalized if Black is; the new AP style (and the similar Columbia Journalism Review style and some other, mostly journalistic, groups) is aberrant, not normal.
https://cssp.org/2020/03/recognizing-race-in-language-why-we...
https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/bias-free-...
https://www.macfound.org/press/perspectives/capitalizing-bla...
https://amastyleinsider.com/2020/07/01/updates-to-reporting-...
https://www.thewrap.com/cnn-capitalize-black-white-race/
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/about-us/readers-rep/st...
https://www.cjr.org/analysis/capital-b-black-styleguide.php
From the article:
To capitalize Black, in her view, is to acknowledge that slavery “deliberately stripped” people forcibly shipped overseas “of all other ethnic/national ties.” She added, “African American is not wrong, and some prefer it, but if we are going to capitalize Asian and South Asian and Indigenous, for example, groups that include myriad ethnic identities united by shared race and geography and, to some degree, culture, then we also have to capitalize Black.”
I think it’s even more false to capitalize “Indigenous”, no?
Being “Asian” or “South Asian” are broad enough that they don’t refer to any particular ethnicity, nationality or culture.
This phenomenon exists everywhere.
(Disclaimer: English is second language, in my native language we don’t capitalize any of these words and even in English I would only do so when required by grammar, so it may impress me different than others)
And what of the whites in Africa. Do we capitalize only the Boers who suffered a genocide from the British? Is Musk the only W white we can talk about? That poor richest man with such historic baggage. Truly the best role model for all African Americans.
Oh the racialist hierarchies we build.
No, it's when referring to a racial identity group.
While the label for that group originates as a reference to the dark skin typical of the group, the capitalized term does not refer to, and does not have any necessary relation to, skin color.
EDIT: Also, I'm a bit of the position that imposing these group identities on others is undesirable. If they all refer/referred to themselves as "Black" all good, otherwise I find it harmful to construct these lines between us unless in a particular context where the specific meaning is clear and it serves a valid purpose. Right now I feel it obstructs more than it clarifies.
I avoid referring to anyone by ethnicity or "race" in the general too fwiw (unless in a very specific context, like somebody getting sunburnt easily because of their skin color or being discriminated against because of somebody elses impression of it)
The Game Cartridge
The Super Soaker Squirt Gun
yeah, i was slightly surprised that jerry lawson (inventor of the game cartridge) wasn't mentioned.
I could see him getting credit for ROM cartridges - as I understand it the Odessey cartridges changed game play but didn't contain code.
