I feel like we could be spending our time more wisely.
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as a clueless white guy I've been wondering the same honestly. I get the Black distinction but have been honestly wondering why not both.
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I think that's fair. So far, arguments I've seen don't really carry equitable logic.
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And then there's this, which makes no sense to me as a brown person tbh, but they're still going to keep "white" lowercasehttps://twitter.com/NaderDIssa/status/1272649054514749441 …
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capitalize white, but only the H wHite
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That also indicates how it should be pronounced - Hwite.
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One way to make sense of the discrepancy is that there's an element of deferring to a group's choices in naming itself. "Black" has a constituency demanding the capital letter as a sign of respect, and "white" doesn't. That outweighs the pure logic of consistency.
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Black is an ethnicity, like Italian or Jewish. White is not an ethnicity; it merely serves to differentiate from BIPOC.
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Black isn’t an ethnicity.
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Exactly! Those lobbying for "capital W" white tend to be the wearers of white hoods. Italian-Americans, Polish-Americans, Jewish Americans, Irish-Americans, etc. often prefer to be identified by their ancestry.
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