ok actual question once again I have noticed that "black" ("Black"?) is now being capitalized in news media I vaguely recall that recent historical practice was to use the non-capitalized variant Is there some kind of new guidance (???)
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also uncertain how we went from "Negro" to "black" (I think?) to "African-American" in my youth which at some point was deprecated in favor of "black" again to "Black" (apparently?) is this some kind of treadmill? Seems not to occur with Asian terms, but has with Hispanics(?)
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this comic was published in the 1980s and is an accurate representation of two of the several kinds of white peoplepic.twitter.com/EtLP8N5UuR
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Replying to @eigenrobot
wait that looks like dallas but i didn't think dallas was that culturally sensitive
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the author left a panel in a related strip for ppl like you who missed that arcpic.twitter.com/7GGr6lbUMK
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I have to tell you that exchange was in my top ten of all time
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