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I don’t think John McWhorter has been advocating that.
by LudwigNagasena 4y ago
I 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.