Posted on 01/23/2022 4:22:12 PM PST by TigerClaws
AP style will continue to lowercase the term white in racial, ethnic and cultural senses. This decision follows our move last month to capitalize Black in such uses. We consulted with a wide group of people internally and externally around the globe and considered a variety of commentary in making these decisions.
There was clear desire and reason to capitalize Black. Most notably, people who are Black have strong historical and cultural commonalities, even if they are from different parts of the world and even if they now live in different parts of the world. That includes the shared experience of discrimination due solely to the color of one’s skin.
There is, at this time, less support for capitalizing white. White people generally do not share the same history and culture, or the experience of being discriminated against because of skin color. In addition, we are a global news organization and in much of the world there is considerable disagreement, ambiguity and confusion about whom the term includes.
We agree that white people’s skin color plays into systemic inequalities and injustices, and we want our journalism to robustly explore those problems. But capitalizing the term white, as is done by white supremacists, risks subtly conveying legitimacy to such beliefs.
Some have expressed the belief that if we don’t capitalize white, we are being inconsistent and discriminating against white people or, conversely, that we are implying that white is the default. We also recognize the argument that capitalizing the term could pull white people more fully into issues and discussions of race and equality. We will closely watch how usage and thought evolves, and will periodically review our decision.
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We can capitalize “White” despite what these racist bootlickers at the Asspress do.
White house?
I’ll go with “What is ap, Alec....”.
I’ll go with “What was ap?, Alec....”.
white Hospice
Democrats republicans, Liberals conservatives, Homosexual heterosexual, Female male, Mohamad christian,
Just more liberal mental illness on display
I would have been okay with it if they had said:
“We’re only going to capitalize Black because they’re clearly just better than everyone else at sports.”
Racist
It’s spelled “Blech”.
AP has been an evil organization for quite some time. Now they show it openly.
Isn't that true of all races? Have these jerks even been out of their Black holes for centuries?
Wow. So the AP is racist. What is new? I’m sorry but just because you are black does not make you special. Period!
a.p., there is just one race. The human race.
Racist balderdash and hateful tommyrot.
AP is useless as a mud bucket.
So, blacks around the world have a shared cultural experience, but White Judeo-Christian people around the world, sharing the Indo-European language group, have no shared cultural experience.
Got it.
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