I presented some facts about demographics, and my opinion about what the curtains article intended. You presented innuendo and speculation about my motives and

I presented some facts about demographics, and my opinion about what the curtains article intended. You presented innuendo and speculation about my motives and personality, concluding I have a leftist agenda, so subtly deployed that I'm gaslighting here in public. If I actually intended a veiled American leftist agenda in my choice of words I would have used African-American or BIPOC, don't you think? My use of "Black" to contrast with the article's use of "white," dashed off in a comment thread that will influence no one, must mean something, and I have to admire your determination to dig through the layers of obfuscation I cleverly laid on. I could try to dig up common usage from the '70s, when I learned to write in school, and when "Black" got capitalized and I got told by teachers (Americans, and leftists, no doubt) to write it that way. Or maybe I misremember -- that was decades ago, after all, and capitalization of words I rarely had occasion to write or think carefully about might have got mixed up in my head. These days someone with an actual leftist political agenda trolling HN comments would write BIPOC, but I don't want to spoil your conspiracy. My children sometimes try to correct my usage so I don't use words I learned in my youth and embarrass myself, or offend someone, or trigger amateur semioticians I encounter online. Here we are, with you accusing me of promoting a leftist agenda after I started arguing in this thread that the article about curtains doesn't use "white" in a racist sense, and that Americans aren't any more racist than anyone else. Kind of an odd way to argue what you accuse me of, but honestly you lost me a while back, and now you're just engaging in elder abuse. Thanks for the analysis and careful parsing. I'll circle back to my original point: the article has nothing to do with race, it's about curtains (or lack of) as a class status display. The authors of the almost tongue-in-cheek article carelessly chose a neighborhood they could refer to as "white" so people like me could spread out on the internet with our leftist biased gaslighting in order to... I don't know, you lost me somewhere, I'm not sure what I was trying to accomplish, but I'm sure you can tell me.