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I’m a white guy, but that seems weird to me. We capitalize a country or origin (e.g., English, African), but not a description. We don’t capitalize “redhead” or “tall.”

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Apepollo11@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
We do capitalise community names though - like deaf vs Deaf.

This is the same, it’s not being used as a description of how someone looks, but to what community they belong.

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- sunsofold@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Never seen that anywhere before. I don’t think your ‘we’ is the same as our ‘we.’
  
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- charokol@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  We also capitalize the Native in Native American even though it’s just an adjective.
  
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  - Successful_Try543@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    TIL. Thank you.
    
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- AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Interesting, never heard that with respect to Deaf or whatever.
  
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- valar@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  I agree, I would use a capital when writing about “the Black community”. Otherwise it would be lowercase (“a black person/a white person”)
  
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