Do black people actually want to be called Black with capital B?

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• s@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  One guy I know likes to be called Steve

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  • Steve@communick.news ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Who are you?

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  • Angryhumanoid@fedinsfw.app ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    What’s his name?

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• mech@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Hold on, let me ask the Black People Hivemind.

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  • Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Black hive mind

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• yellerbadger@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Am black. Doesn’t matter so long as it’s consistent (i.e. black and white or Black and White).

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  • wesker@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    How do you feel about the 2001 game “Black & White” by Electronic Arts?

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  • Ashtear@piefed.social ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Funny you say that, because the generally accepted style is Black and white. Here’s Microsoft’s style guide for another example.

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    • mech@feddit.org ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      US race relations are really, really weird.

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    • Vandals_handle@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Lots of generally accepted bigotry throughout society, even in the constitution

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  • BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I just only seem to think it came from some idea from the NY Times, and I don’t think anyone says White, so it just seems, off kilter I guess I’d say. Of course I will say whatever is proper, but it’s just, odd.

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• AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  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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    • 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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• S_H_K@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I swear no one else in the world manages to.be so obsessed with race than US… Come the fuck on…

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  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah I wonder why…

    Surely nothing to do with 400 years of slavery followed by Jim Crow and permanent systemic racism.

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  • BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’m not American. I honestly just wondered because the first time I saw this used it was the NY Times saying they were doing it from now on.

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• Analog@lemmy.ml ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Dunno why you’d capitalize black unless it was at the start of a sentence. No one capitalizes white.

  Even if you’re in America not all black people are African Americans. Black ppl come from all over the world. (Duh.)

  Stupid designations about something that doesn’t matter, but they’re the best we’ve got.

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  • BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This was a decision that I think the NY Times made to start capitalizing, and I’ve never understood why, but editors of books and articles all use it now, I saw it in a Stephen King story recently.

    Language does change, a book by the trans writer Jennifer Finney Boylan about her own transition published in 2001 used transgendered through the book simply because that’s what was used then, and now it’s proper to say transgender; Jenny’s book was released for an anniversary edition and she addressed that in the foreword, that she had left it as written but with some hesitation that people would be offended, which I think would be silly because it was never a slur, it simply was the language then, and before that trans people were called transsexual, and that also wasn’t a slur. So terminology can and does evolve, but it’s just so random in the case of capitalization and nobody has ever explained why.

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• finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I know one word I’ll never call them, capital or not. It’s also why I can’t sing along with Busta Rhymes songs, if I’m being honest.

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  • BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I know, I am not very comfortable.

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• Nemo@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  some do, some don’t

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