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> capitalizing Black, which is something our mutual fave John McWhorter has been advocating for some time Is this sarcasm? I am not quite sure what this is sup
by LudwigNagasena 4y ago
> capitalizing Black, which is something our mutual fave John McWhorter has been advocating for some time
Is this sarcasm? I am not quite sure what this is supposed to convey.
- tptacek 4y agoNo, there is nothing sarcastic about this.
- LudwigNagasena 4y agoI don’t think John McWhorter has been advocating that.
- tptacek 4y agoHe started hedging when the NYT adopted it as their house style (understandably, because the NYT's rationale was silly, overreaching, and a little incoherent), but he's talked about this on Lexicon Valley before: it's proper noun describing a specific set of people for whom "African" is an imprecise descriptor.