[akira2501]

> It’s interesting that Matt Levine capitalises “white”, as well as capitalising “black”.

In this context, they're both proper nouns and this is the correct stylization, what's interesting about it?

> I haven’t seen this style choice before.

Do people imagine that they're going to have an impact on any social outcome by merely changing capitalization of certain words? It's incomprehensible that this would be a "style choice" and not simply "moral navel gazing."

[karaterobot]

Neither are proper nouns as I understand the term. They're not names for anything, they're just adjectives or broad categories at most. Treating them like proper nouns makes them sound like baseball team names.

[booleandilemma]

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.

[selimthegrim]

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.

[mynameishere]

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