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For confused people clicking the article like myself: This is not about hair colour. Title means “hairstyle commonly worn in Black communities.”
by uranusjr 6y ago
For confused people clicking the article like myself: This is not about hair colour. Title means “hairstyle commonly worn in Black communities.”
- natex 6y agoThe correct title is "The Oculus Go Wasn’t Designed for Black Hair". The HN title is the problem.
- hombre_fatal 6y agoThere's no difference there as that is just title-cased. Also, only in a few niches like Twitter is "Black" capitalized and then used as an adjective to describe something to do with black people (e.g. "Black success"), so to everyone else it just sounds like the color since most people don't automatically assume everything is racial. Though the racial fixation of the article is already belabored as anyone with their hair worn a certain way, like my girlfriend right now, can't even wear hats much less a $1000 VR headset. But the success and popularity of racial essentialism in 2020 is another topic.
- runako 6y ago> only in a few niches like Twitter is "Black" capitalized The Associated Press & others have recently changed their style guides to capitalize "Black" when referring to the ethnic group (see links below). This is likely a US-specific style, but it is no longer niche. https://apnews.com/article/9105661462 https://apnews.com/article/9105661462 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/06/30/why-news-organizations-move-capitalize-black-is-win/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/06/30/why-news-...
- irrational 6y agoI also understood black hair to mean black-colored hair. I was thinking maybe there was either a color sensor issue or maybe it was talking about people in front of the device whose hair color is black.