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https://apnews.com/article/9105661462 https://apnews.com/article/9105661462
by reader5000 6y ago
https://apnews.com/article/9105661462 https://apnews.com/article/9105661462
- eznzt 6y ago>AP’s style is now to capitalize Black in a racial, ethnic or cultural sense, conveying an essential and shared sense of history, identity and community among people who identify as Black Ironically, pretending all blacks come from the same ethnic or cultural background is a very ignorant (and racist) thing to do.
- eplanit 6y agoThe AP is proving that journalism is dead.
- ihsw 6y agoThat is asinine.
- nailer 6y agoOK so the latter. This is racist against both white people that somehow don't deserve capitalisation based on their skin color and black people in the US who don't share the limited concept of black the AP uses.
- monoideism 6y agoSo if they don't capitalize "white", because that's what white supremacists do, what does that say about capitalizing "black"? A good number of the people pushing the "Black" spelling are openly Afrocentric, or profess to be.
- bluntfang 6y agoI dunno man, are black people systemically killing other ethnic groups in America right now? Do they have a history of genocide and slavery on the scale of white people? Do we see a bunch of black people doing the black equivalent of Nazi salutes on the side of the road around the country?
- disruptalot 6y agoTaking any demographic and extrapolating the actions of a few to the whole, then basing policies around that is "systemic racism". But not if you're white. News flash, you're not looking for equality with that mindset.
- xibalba 6y agoIs there any group that is "systemically killing" any other group in America right now? Please bring data.
- bluntfang 6y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop-and-frisk_in_New_York_City https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop-and-frisk_in_New_York_Cit... Stop and Frisk is widely believed to be proof that police are disproportionately targeting black people, and it seems interactions with police end in death more for black people than white people.
- nailer 6y agoThere are many other reasons some groups may have higher interactions with the police than others, including high rates of absentee fathers, drug addiction and poverty.
- bluntfang 6y agoSure, and the war on drugs delivered crack to black people and got them addicted and put them in jail. You're being obtuse if you think black people are more likely to be absentee fathers, drug addicted, and impoverished by the nature of their genetics.
- nailer 6y agoI didn't state that it was because of genetics.
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