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I visited a website once that only capitalized "black" and not "white". It was a website geared towards black entrepreneurs iirc but I forget the name. It came across as creepy to me.

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I remember somebody at TheRoot saying they didn’t want to capitalize either one because if they capitalized one they’d have to capitalize the other and capitalizing White meant centering white privilege.

Really I think it becomes clear when you know that Custer capitalized mule but not Indian.

Umm, almost every media outlet does that.

By the way, this whole thing is like the "He" in the bible:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverential_capitalization

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