Respectfully, I view these explanations as a retcon.
Race is a social construct and the reason these newspapers chose not to capitalize white was because it's historically been capitalized by white nationalists. It's also historically been capitalized by black nationalists. That's what ethno-fascists do. They reduce reality down to singular dimensions and obsess about them as they tell everyone to blame their problems on that reason.
Like they did in Germany they point to a group in that case the German Jews that is extremely culturally similar to another group that has less money per capita and then tell them that the explanation for these folks having more is they've taken it from you.
They spend decades creating an entire ideology and mythology around this notion.
Sound familiar?
I first noticed the capitalization of black when I was in college in the early 2000s and was enrolled in several black studies courses for my electives. A few extreme radicals there insisted on capitalizing black because they spent so much time around black nationalists.
I'm glad these journalistic institutions found a compelling explanation for doing what they were being told to do by activist groups. It's absurd and ridiculous and it looks like religion. What's next are they going to demand we all capitalize God too, like the oppressive evangelical churches of my childhood made me do? Those same churches also told me that I couldn't use the word lucky and I had to use the word blessed instead because that's what identitarians do:
They coerce your speech so they can coerce your thoughts.
I know this was a long rant but it's pretty awful to see this stuff get defended with anything looking like logic when it's absolutely not.
Black when capitalized doesn’t refer to a race.
It refers to an ethnicity. It’s not a retcon to capitalize ethnicities. We’ve been capitalizing ethnicities for a while now.
You can view them as a retcon, but your argument isn't engaging with their explanations seriously. It just dismisses them, invents a motivation and then ascribes malice to them.
I'm confused by this logic, because by this logic capitalizing "German Jews" is ethno-fascist, or "Asian". Am I missing something? Are Asian-Americans ethno-fascist?
Race is a social construct and the reason these newspapers chose not to capitalize white was because it's historically been capitalized by white nationalists. It's also historically been capitalized by black nationalists. That's what ethno-fascists do. They reduce reality down to singular dimensions and obsess about them as they tell everyone to blame their problems on that reason.
Like they did in Germany they point to a group in that case the German Jews that is extremely culturally similar to another group that has less money per capita and then tell them that the explanation for these folks having more is they've taken it from you.
They spend decades creating an entire ideology and mythology around this notion.
Sound familiar?
I first noticed the capitalization of black when I was in college in the early 2000s and was enrolled in several black studies courses for my electives. A few extreme radicals there insisted on capitalizing black because they spent so much time around black nationalists.
I'm glad these journalistic institutions found a compelling explanation for doing what they were being told to do by activist groups. It's absurd and ridiculous and it looks like religion. What's next are they going to demand we all capitalize God too, like the oppressive evangelical churches of my childhood made me do? Those same churches also told me that I couldn't use the word lucky and I had to use the word blessed instead because that's what identitarians do: They coerce your speech so they can coerce your thoughts.
I know this was a long rant but it's pretty awful to see this stuff get defended with anything looking like logic when it's absolutely not.