Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: FPP Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: "Speak Out Loudly Against This Evil": Internet Erupts Over Biden Declaring Easter "Trans Day Of Visibility" Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2024 19:50:50 -0400 Organization: Ph'nglui Mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh Wgah'nagl Fhtagn. Lines: 61 Message-ID: References: <20240402195752.00004e87@example.com> <17c30bc626bdf855$124382$1768716$4ad50060@news.newsdemon.com> Reply-To: fredp1571@gmail.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2024 23:50:50 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="fff165c5883f8104731836352de0d048"; logging-data="1010357"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19mFnSYAwpuNefL4+pQMu5Z" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.10.0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:YjT50RT8GFqG9D5qZ0lTaUlloOo= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 3953 On 4/4/24 3:05 PM, BTR1701 wrote: > In article > <17c30bc626bdf855$124382$1768716$4ad50060@news.newsdemon.com>, > trotsky wrote: > >> On 4/3/24 1:12 PM, BTR1701 wrote: >>> On Apr 3, 2024 at 3:38:02 AM PDT, "FPP" wrote: >>> >>>> On 4/3/24 5:10 AM, The Horny Goat wrote: >>>>> On Tue, 2 Apr 2024 19:57:52 -0400, Rhino >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Probably. After Saint George of Fentanyl died, the "woke" publications >>>>>> immediately adopted capitalizing "black" as some kind of tribute or >>>>>> recognition of black people. Perhaps these same self-styled elites have >>>>>> now decreed that the same must be done for gays and trannies.... >>>>> >>>>> WHich is ridiculous. My rule is that if something would be >>>>> objectionable when applied to whites it's objectionable when applied >>>>> to blacks. In the case of capitalization it's either capitalize both >>>>> or neither. Doing one without doing the same to the other is racism. >>>>> >>>>> And I emphatically reject the notion by Kendi and his ilk that only >>>>> whites can be racist since racism is when you apply different criteria >>>>> to different groups. And yes I HAVE read Kendid. >>>>> >>>> >>>> The case for capitalizing Black has a rationale. >>>> >>>> If it refers to color (black hair) it's lowercase. >>>> If it refers to race (Black hair) it's uppercase. >>>> >>>> Kinda simple. >>> >>> Except they don't capitalize white when it refers to race. >>> >>> There goes your rationale. >>> >>> Kinda simple. >> >> "When speaking of a culture, ethnicity or group of people, the name >> should be capitalized. 'Black' with a capital 'B' refers to people of >> the African diaspora. Lowercase 'black' is simply a color.” For her, >> capitalizing the letter is about recognition for the Black community and >> empowerment in her own identity.Jun 28, 2022 >> >> Race on Campus: Should the 'B' in 'Black' Be Capitalized? >> The Chronicle of Higher Education > > Except they don't capitalize white when it refers to race. > Who is this "they" you keep talking about? -- "Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a man’s mind." - OC Bible 25B.G. https://www.dropbox.com/s/ek8kap93bmk0q5w/D%20U%20N%20E%20Part%20II.jpg?dl=0 Gracie, age 6. https://www.dropbox.com/s/0es3xolxka455iw/BetterThingsToDo.jpg?dl=0