Posted on 07/21/2020 11:40:34 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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 explain our decision process in greater detail in a blog post about how AP leadership weighed the pros and cons of capitalization.
As the AP Stylebook currently directs, we will continue to avoid the broad and imprecise term brown in racial, ethnic or cultural references. If using the term is necessary as part of a direct quotation, we will continue to use the lowercase.
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Good. Makes it easier to spot the racist propaganda.
If you want to get somebody hated, youbm treat him with undue privilege. This is what is going on.
I really do believe one of the aims of the left is to bring back segregation. Everything they are doing is going to end up up isolating blacks from the rest of the population.
In order to combat perceived racism, we intend to employ every element of racism to make up for it....
AP you have become what you claim to despise and loathe.
Aren’t white people being discriminated against because of skin color in this very paragraph?
Amazing how petty it has become.
More non serious non fixes from the Left. Next they’ll say affirmative action and welfare will solve the problems.
So, according to the AP....blacks are all the same, but whites are not - except in being racist?
Racism is official AP style. Got it.
“White people generally do not share the same history and culture, or the experience of being discriminated against because of skin color.”
Says AP, while discriminating against white people because of skin color.
ap. /lowercased
What about Honky? Capitalized okay? Asking for a friend.
Cool guys will continue to use the anti white insult Karen.
Yellow Journalism or is it yellow journalism? Is it the Red Socks and white socks!
Yepper no bias here with the A** Press!
So then most people support the phrase “black lives matter” but, for me, I do not support the defined organization “Black Lives Matter”. Does that make one a racist?
racism is still racism
and by doing this, they display another way how Whites are
the victims of racial bias
right now they are being gunned down on the streets of our
nation - AP doesn’t even know that
This is not a style guide, it’s a set of definitions that racially elevates Blacks above the “morally inferior” White demographic; ergo, whites are lower than Blacks.
That’s Racist
Right. Caucasians (Whites) have no similar commonalities. My head is going to explode if I continue to read this inter-galactic stupidity.
So, ap wants to point their finger at black people...
”You’re different...You’re Black...”
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