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To: Trillian

It’s principal, not principle, you nimrods.

And why is black capitalized?


4 posted on 07/12/2021 9:26:59 PM PDT by Laslo Fripp (The Sybil of Free Republic)
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To: Laslo Fripp

Media Style guide. Been that way for about a year.

https://apnews.com/article/race-and-ethnicity-us-news-business-ap-top-news-racial-injustice-71386b46dbff8190e71493a763e8f45a

AP changes writing style to capitalize ″b″ in Black

By The Associated Press
June 19, 2020

The Associated Press changed its influential style guide Friday, June 19, 2020, to capitalize the “b” in the term Black when referring to people, weighing in on a hotly debated issue.

The Associated Press changed its writing style guide Friday to capitalize the “b” in the term Black when referring to people in a racial, ethnic or cultural context, weighing in on a hotly debated issue.

The change conveys “an essential and shared sense of history, identity and community among people who identify as Black, including those in the African diaspora and within Africa,” John Daniszewski, AP’s vice president of standards, said in a blog post Friday. “The lowercase black is a color, not a person.”


17 posted on 07/12/2021 9:45:26 PM PDT by Spirit of Liberty (Idiots are of two kinds: those who try to be smart and those who think they are smart.)
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To: Laslo Fripp

And why is black capitalized?

“””””””””””””””””””””””””””””

Lots of F.R.
members doing it too.


32 posted on 07/12/2021 11:21:34 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (The China virus doesn't scare me, Venezuelaism does.)
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To: Laslo Fripp

Plenty of blame to go around in this article. The author actually misquoted the quote the young scofflaw embedded in the annual.

Then, the principal sent out a community-wide email she obviously didn’t proof: “...Bean wrote. ‘We are committed to to ensuring all Glastonbury High School students feel safe and supported.’”.

Dollars to donuts the NSA has a job waiting for the kid upon his release.


40 posted on 07/13/2021 6:44:47 AM PDT by moovova (Yo GOP....we won't forget.)
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