Posted on 07/20/2020 12:20:43 PM PDT by Trump20162020
NEW YORK (AP) After changing its usage rules last month to capitalize the word Black when used in the context of race and culture, The Associated Press on Monday said it would not do the same for white.
The AP said white people in general have much less shared history and culture, and dont have the experience of being discriminated against because of skin color.
We agree that white peoples skin color plays into systemic inequalities and injustices, and we want our journalism to robustly explore these problems, John Daniszewski, the APs vice president for standards, said in a memo to staff Monday. But capitalizing the term white, as is done by white supremacists, risks subtly conveying legitimacy to such beliefs.
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I am mostly retired now but back then I had to do battle with the Minneapolistan Department of Civil rights a few times.
They don’t treat us honkies very well.
If I was still in the game and had some fight left I would tell them I identify as a black lesbian and see what happens.
I am surprised I haven’t seen any big lawsuits from companies doing exactly that. I believe they would win and this whole minority preference crap would be gone.
AP is being very racist by doing that.
They can still refer to Italian-Americans, German-Americans, Norwegian-Americans, etc.
But they won’t distinguish between Liberian-Americans, Gambian-Americans, Nigerian-Americans, Zimbabwean-Americans, Haitian-Americans, etc. They will just look at skin color and lump them all into the Black category. Super racist.
As long as we never capitalize ap I’m cool with it.
Yup.
I will capitalize A Pee.
Eggzackly...
Slight modification for more accuracy:
So, they are going to moronically fight nonexistent ‘systemic racism’ by actually being systemically racist..................
Got it!
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