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 09:36:25 -0400 Organization: Ph'nglui Mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh Wgah'nagl Fhtagn. Lines: 46 Message-ID: References: <20240402195752.00004e87@example.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 13:36:26 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="f237ec274e123f99d4b20d421c4a3487"; logging-data="725148"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+VcC0sPdc64PDCbhJoY2Q5" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.10.0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:JiCjAkSSk3/EOm4S/MLcOO+ksTo= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 3063 On 4/3/24 2:12 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. > > Who says? You? Or "they"? -- "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